S-URL Flux: A Novel C&C Protocol for Mobile Botnets

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 320, Issue , 2013, Pages 412-419

  Wang, Shuai ^a,b   Cui, Xiang ^b   Liao, Peng ^b   Li, Dan ^c,d  

^a University of Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^d BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

C and C; Mobile botnet; S URL Flux; Shorten URL

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

ACADEMIC COMMUNITY; BATTERY POWER CONSUMPTION; C AND C; COMMAND AND CONTROL; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; DESIRABLE FEATURES; MOBILE BOTNET; SHORTEN URL;

DESIGN;

EID: 84880818606     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-35795-4_52     Document Type: Conference Paper

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