The aim of Crypto Census is to reduce the profitability of cryptojacking by providing organizations a centralized text list of known public mining pools and crypto domains. This list can then be applied in domain indicator detections, or firewall exclusions.
This project also aims to provide the community with a documented, customizable, self-maintainable aggregation tool for crypto-related domains.
Crypto Census utilizes a curl-based web crawler and web scraper to:
- Identify HTML documents.
- Identify and follow
<a href>HTML links. - Identify strings within the HTML document which may be domains.
- Check extracted domains for crypto activity.
- Output validated domains to a text list.
To run Crypto Census, download and unzip Crypto-Census.zip. Then, execute CryptoCensus.exe. Alternatively, the file output.txt can be used out of the box for domain indicator detections.
The current values in sources.txt come from the minerstat exclusion list. The fileoutput.txt contains the output of the program after a few hours of execution using default settings.
In the case of network issues, or other disruptions to Crypto Census, the tool is designed in a way that allows users to feed the data in output.txt back to sources.txt. Doing so allows Crypto Census to pick up where it left off.
For a more detailed look at the tool, see the release blogpost.
Here is a roadmap of planned changes/improvements:
- Statically-Linked Binary
- Better DoS prevention mechanisms
- Root domain exclusions
- Pooled
curlconnections - Greater resilience to network disruptions
- Test compatability with Linux and MacOS