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A Taxonomy of Botnet Structures
Overview This paper proposes taxonomy of botnet structures, based on their utility to the botmaster. They propose key metrics to measure their utility for various activities (e.g., spam, ddos). Using the performance metrics, they consider the ability of different response techniques to degrade or disrupt botnets. In particular, their models show that for scale free botnets, targeted responses are particularly effective. Further, botmasters' efforts to improve the robustness of scale free networks come at a cost of diminished transitivity. Botmasters do not appear to have any structural solutions to this problem in scale free networks. They also show that random graph botnets (e.g., those using P2P formations) are highly resistant to both random and targeted responses.
| Publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology | File Format | |
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| Date Published | September 2007 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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