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Malicious Bots
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Malicious Bots

by Ken Dunham, Jim Melnick
August 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
168 pages
4h 55m
English
Auerbach Publications
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Introduction to the Use of Botnets in Criminal Activity  51
to the measures of updates added [to the bot].” Adding updates (and thus enhanced
value) is a further indicator of the modular style of botnets referred to in Section 7.7.1
o
f this book, “A Modular Approach to Botnets: A Major Aid to Criminals.”
Major features of this particular bot reportedly included the following:
Installation of an HTTP proxy
Versatile administrative (“admin”) interface
e opportunity to create a service on the database of the admin interface
Convenient botnet statistics
A
percentage of good proxies out of a hundred downloads—around 50
Writes in self-download (the proxy ...
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