Peeking into spammer behavior from a unique vantage point

LEET 2008 - 1st USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats: Botnets, Spyware, Worms, and More

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Pathak, Abhinav ^a   Hu, Y Charlie ^a   Mao, Z Morley ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VIRUSES; ELECTRONIC MAIL; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

AGGREGATE BEHAVIOR; CRITICAL STEPS; GLOBAL BEHAVIORS; HIGH VOLUMES; HONEYPOTS; LONG LASTING; SPAMMERS; WORK-LOAD DISTRIBUTION;

BOTNET;

EID: 85084096263     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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