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USS
2008
15 years 5 months ago
To Catch a Predator: A Natural Language Approach for Eliciting Malicious Payloads
We present an automated, scalable, method for crafting dynamic responses to real-time network requests. Specifically, we provide a flexible technique based on natural language pro...
Sam Small, Joshua Mason, Fabian Monrose, Niels Pro...
ACNS
2011
Springer
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14 years 7 months ago
Quantitatively Analyzing Stealthy Communication Channels
Abstract. Attackers in particular botnet controllers use stealthy messaging systems to set up large-scale command and control. Understanding the capacity of such communication chan...
Patrick Butler, Kui Xu, Danfeng (Daphne) Yao
CCS
2008
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Spamalytics: an empirical analysis of spam marketing conversion
The "conversion rate" of spam -- the probability that an unsolicited e-mail will ultimately elicit a "sale" -- underlies the entire spam value proposition. How...
Chris Kanich, Christian Kreibich, Kirill Levchenko...
JOT
2008
142views more  JOT 2008»
15 years 3 months ago
Mining Edgar Tender Offers
This paper describes how use the HTMLEditorKit to perform web data mining on EDGAR (Electronic Data-Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system). EDGAR is the SEC's (U.S. Secur...
Douglas Lyon
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DSN
2008
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Towards an understanding of anti-virtualization and anti-debugging behavior in modern malware
Many threats that plague today’s networks (e.g., phishing, botnets, denial of service attacks) are enabled by a complex ecosystem of attack programs commonly called malware. To ...
Xu Chen, Jonathon Andersen, Zhuoqing Morley Mao, M...