Detecting Fentanyl and Major Players in Darknet Drug Markets by Analyzing Drug Networks and Developing a Threat Assessment Tool, Global, 2020-2022

This study conducted both qualitative and quantitative analysis of scraped data from multiple Darknet marketplaces. The objective was to gain an understanding of fentanyl sales and trust in vendors in order to build a threat assessment tool. The marketplaces in the data include Versus, Cartel, ASAP, Tor2Door, ViceCity, and AlphaBay. Variables include product description/listing, category of products, price of product, amount per sale quantity, quantity available for sale, date vendor registered for the site, date last active on the site, vendor description, various vendor ratings and scores, and vendor/product feedback messages.