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BotMiner: Clustering Analysis of Network Traffic for Protocol- and Structure-Independent Botnet Detection

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Overview Botnets are now the key platform for many Internet attacks, such as spam, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS), identity theft, and phishing. Most of the current botnet detection approaches work only on specific botnet Command and Control (C&C) protocols (e.g., IRC) and structures (e.g., centralized), and can become ineffective as botnets change their C&C techniques. This paper presents a general detection framework that is independent of botnet C&C protocol and structure, and requires no a priori knowledge of botnets (such as captured bot binaries and hence the botnet signatures, and C&C server names/addresses).

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	File Format	PDF
Date Published	May 2008
Format	White Papers
Topics	Network Security, Security Management, Spam - E-mail Fraud - Phishing

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