Mobile botnet detection model based on retrospective pattern recognition

• Main Authors: Eslahi, M., Yousefi, M., Naseri, M. V., Yussof, Y. M., Tahir, N. M., Hashim, H.
• Format: Article
• Published: Science and Engineering Research Support Society 2016
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/74561/; https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84992073868&doi=10.14257%2fijsia.2016.10.9.05&partnerID=40&md5=a3af90bfdfc2888cac26e2fc943f9c03
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

The dynamic nature of Botnets along with their sophisticated characteristics makes them one of the biggest threats to cyber security. Recently, the HTTP protocol is widely used by Botmaster as they can easily hide their command and control traffic amongst the benign web traffic. This paper proposes...