Agobot

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Agobot
Alias	Gaobot
Group	DDoSing, Spamming
Parent
Sibling
Family	Agobot (family)
Relations	Variants: Sibling of: Parent of: Forbot, Phatbot, Polybot, RBot, SpyBot Distribution of: Campaigns:
Target
Origin
Distribution vector
UserAgent
CCProtocol	IRC (Centralized), P2P (Decentralized)
Activity	2002 /
Status
Language
Programming language
Operation/Working group

Introduction

Related to Forbot, Polybot, XtremBot. Based on the code of Sdbot

Features

• Rootkit

• Worm

• Keylogger

• DDoS

Publications

	Author	Editor	Year
Botnet: classification, attacks, detection, tracing, and preventive measures	Jing Liu Yang Xiao Hongmei Deng Jingyuan Zhang	EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking	2009
Detection and classification of different botnet C&C channels	Gregory Fedynyshyn Mooi Choo Chuah Gang Tan	Lehigh University. Bethlehem	2009
On botnets that use DNS for command and control	Felix C. Freiling Christian J. Dietrich Christian Rossow Herbert Bos Maarten van Steen Norbert Pohlmann	Institute for Internet Security University of Applied Sciences Gelsenkirchen Gelsenkirchen, Germany	2011