Botnets as a Vehicle for Online Crime

Abstract

An analysis of real-world botnets1 indicates the increasing sophistication of bot2 malware and its thoughtful engineering as an effective tool for profit-motivated online crime. Our analysis of source code and captured binaries has provided insight about: how botnets are built what capabilities botnets possess how botnets are operated how botnets are maintained and defended. The purpose of this paper is to increase understanding of the capabilities present in bot malware and the motivations for operating botnets.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2005
Accession Number
AD1145899

Entities

People

  • Aaron Hackworth
  • Nicholas Lanelli

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Command And Control
  • Commerce
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Security Software
  • Computers
  • Denial Of Service Attack
  • Detection
  • Electronic Mail
  • Electronic Messaging
  • Engineering
  • Fraud
  • Infection
  • Intellectual Property
  • Internet
  • Intrusion Detection
  • Intrusion Detectors
  • Law Enforcement
  • Network Protocols
  • Networks
  • Operating Systems
  • Reverse Engineering
  • Security
  • Social Engineering
  • Virtual Machines
  • Web Browsers
  • Wound Infections

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Economics

Technology Areas

  • Cyber