Detection of attack-targeted scans from the Apache HTTP Server access logs

A web application could be visited for different purposes. It is possible for a web site to be visited by a regular user as a normal (natural) visit, to be viewed by crawlers, bots, spiders, etc. for indexing purposes, lastly to be exploratory scanned by malicious users prior to an attack. An attack...

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Main Authors: Merve Baş Seyyar, Ferhat Özgür Çatak, Ensar Gül
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Emerald Publishing 2018-01-01
Series:Applied Computing and Informatics
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210832717300169