Today’s cybercrimes are much more difficult to detect and prosecute than traditional crimes. In the investigation of cybercrimes, law enforcement agencies follow similar techniques to traditional crimes that, however, have to be modified to meet the unique conditions and requirements of virtual space. This paper examines cybercrime profiling techniques prevalent today, and focuses on the feasibility of applying geographic profiling technique to cyber offenders. The primary assumption of the research is that for most types of cybercrime, the steps during the procedure of committing criminal act are not random. For example, the choice of the victim, the choice of crime location, similar characteristics, follow a certain logic, which could provide information about the offender’s crime. Testing the utility of a geographical profiling has been carried out on real cybercrime samples obtained by law enforcement agencies. This paper aims to apply the concept of geographic profiling to the issue of cybercrime that involve a physical world, targeting two types of cybercrimes: credit card skimming and spear phishing. Specially developed GeoCrime geographic profiling software designed to assist in the mapping, spatial and statistical analysis of cybercrime patterns was used. The results of the study have shown the possibility of applying geographic profiling to certain types of cybercrimes and under the certain conditions. The importance of geographic profiling is also emphasized, especially in situations where little is known about the offender, such as in cybercrime, where offenders use the Internet to hide their identities and activities.

与传统犯罪相比，如今的网络犯罪更难以发现和起诉。在调查网络犯罪时，执法机构采用与传统犯罪类似的技术，但是必须对其进行修改以满足虚拟空间的独特条件和要求。本文研究了当今流行的网络犯罪特征分析技术，并重点介绍了将地理特征分析技术应用于网络犯罪者的可行性。该研究的主要假设是，对于大多数类型的网络犯罪，实施犯罪行为过程中的步骤并不是随机的。例如，受害者的选择，犯罪地点的选择，相似的特征遵循一定的逻辑，这些逻辑可以提供有关罪犯犯罪的信息。已对执法机构获得的真实网络犯罪样本进行了地理剖析实用性测试。本文旨在将地理剖析的概念应用于涉及物理世界的网络犯罪问题，针对两种类型的网络犯罪：信用卡窃取和鱼叉式网络钓鱼。使用了专门开发的GeoCrime地理剖析软件，该软件旨在协助网络犯罪模式的制图，空间和统计分析。研究结果表明，在某些条件下，将地理剖析应用于某些类型的网络犯罪的可能性。还强调了进行地理剖析的重要性，尤其是在对犯罪者了解甚少的情况下，例如网络犯罪，