Detecting malware based on expired command-and-control traffic

In this article, we analyze the behavioral characteristics of domain name service queries produced by programs and then design an algorithm to detect malware with expired command-and-control domains based on the key feature of domain name service traffic, that is, repeatedly querying domain with a f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Futai Zou, Siyu Zhang, Linsen Li, Li Pan, Jianhua Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi - SAGE Publishing 2017-07-01
Series:International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1550147717720791