The underground economy of spam: a botmaster's perspective of coordinating large-scale spam campaigns

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The underground economy of spam: a botmaster's perspective of coordinating large-scale spam campaigns
Botnet	Cutwail
Malware
Botnet/malware group
Exploit kits
Services
Feature
Distribution vector
Target
Origin
Campaign
Operation/Working group
Vulnerability
CCProtocol
Date	2011 / Boston 2011
Editor/Conference	University of California, Santa Barbara & Ruhr-University Bochum
Link	http://iseclab.org/papers/cutwail-LEET11.pdf iseclab.org (iseclab.org Archive copy)
Author	Brett Stone-Gross, Thorsten Holz, Gianluca Stringhini, Giovanni Vigna
Type	Conference paper"Conference paper" is not in the list (Blogpost, White paper, Scientific paper, Press article, Conference paper or presentation, Threat entry, Press release, Tech report) of allowed values for the "Type" property.

Abstract

“ In this paper, we present a comprehensive analysis of a

large-scale botnet from the botmaster’s perspective, that highlights the intricacies involved in orchestrating spam campaigns such as the quality of email address lists, the effectiveness of IP-based blacklisting, and the reliability of bots. This is made possible by having access to a number of command-and-control servers used by the Pushdo/ Cutwail botnet. In addition, we study Spamdot.biz, a private forum used by some of the most notorious spam gangs, to provide novel insights into the underground economy of large-scale spam operations.

Bibtex

 @misc{2011BFR798,
   editor = {University of California, Santa Barbara & Ruhr-University Bochum},
   author = {Brett Stone-Gross, Thorsten Holz, Gianluca Stringhini, Giovanni Vigna},
   title = {The underground economy of spam: a botmaster's perspective of coordinating large-scale spam campaigns},
   date = {},
   month = ,
   year = {2011},
   howpublished = {\url{http://iseclab.org/papers/cutwail-LEET11.pdf iseclab.org}},
 }