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Detecting stealthy malware using behavioral features in network traffic

Yen, 2011

Document ID: 11334629482027256590
Author: Yen T
Publication year: 2011

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It is clearly in the interest of network administrators to detect hosts within their networks that are infiltrated by stealthy malware. Infected hosts (also called bots) can exfiltrate sensitive data to adversaries, or lie in wait for commands from a bot-master to forward spam, launch …

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