Detecting Networks Employing Algorithmically Generated Domain Names

Recent Botnets such as Conficker, Kraken and Torpig have used DNS based "domain fluxing" for command-and-control, where each Bot queries for existence of a series of domain names and the owner has to register only one such domain name. In this report, we develop a methodology to detect suc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ashwath Kumar Krishna Reddy
Other Authors: Narasimha Reddy, Annappa Reddy
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-08-8417