{"id":354113,"date":"2010-02-23T15:01:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T20:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.h4cker.cc\/?p=541"},"modified":"2010-02-23T15:01:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T20:01:24","slug":"how-to-quickly-investigate-a-fake-bittorrent-tracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/354113","title":{"rendered":"How To Quickly Investigate A Fake BitTorrent Tracker"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s possible to find information about the files indexed on many trackers by using \u2019scrape\u2019. In the case of the TorrentQ tracker, the scrape URL is located at http:\/\/tracker.torrentq.com\/scrape.php. So first off, go to this URL and you\u2019ll get the option to download a file, in this case \u2019scrape.php\u2019 \u2013 download it.<\/p>\n

In this file will be information about the files being seeded on this tracker.<\/p>\n

Next use DeHackEd\u2019s nice little online tool called DumpTorrentCGI. Browse to the \u2019scrape\u2019 file on your hard drive, change output type to \u2018\/scrape\u2019 and click the \u2018decode\u2019 button. You should get this report;
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\nImmediately you can see that all the files are apparently hugely popular, but of course, all of these stats are faked. To prove that, one can use a site like Torrentz.com, which creates its torrent URLs by using a torrent\u2019s hash value. Simply test each torrent by using http:\/\/www.torrentz.com\/ followed by the hash value, as shown below, and check the comments.<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.torrentz.com\/0366eb6bdbab88f2ccd9397a0b421b3947c82e06<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The torrents TorrentQ tracks are for Wolfman, Legion, My Name is Khan, The Book of Eli, From Paris With Love, Ninja Assassin, Edge of Darkness, Shutter Island and Dear John.<\/p>\n

Every single one is flagged as a fake by commenters on Torrentz.com.<\/p>\n

More information<\/a> [TorrentFreak]<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s possible to find information about the files indexed on many trackers by using \u2019scrape\u2019. In the case of the TorrentQ tracker, the scrape URL is located at http:\/\/tracker.torrentq.com\/scrape.php. So first off, go to this URL and you\u2019ll get the option to download a file, in this case \u2019scrape.php\u2019 \u2013 download it. In this file […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}