Botnets

Contents

Preface .......................................................................................................... vii

About the Editors ...........................................................................................ix

Contributors...................................................................................................xi

1 Botnet Architectures: A State-of-the-Art Review.................................... 1

BASHEER AL-DUWAIR AND MOATH JARRAH

2 IoT Botnets: The Journey So Far and the Road Ahead........................ 33

PASCAL GEENENS

3 IoT Botnet Traits and Techniques: A View of the State of the Art .... 101

PASCAL GEENENS

4 Advanced Information Hiding Techniques for Modern Botnets ....... 165

LUCA CAVIGLIONE, WOJCIECH MAZURCZYK, AND STEFFEN

WENDZEL

5 Steganography Techniques for Command and Control

(C2) Channels.................................................................................... 189

JEDRZEJ BIENIASZ AND KRZYSZTOF SZCZYPIORSKI

6 Blockchain-Based Botnets for Command-and-Control Resilience .... 217

WEIZHI WANG AND XIAOBO MA

7 Detecting Botnets and Unknown Network Attacks in

Big Traffic Data ................................................................................. 237

LUIS SACRAMENTO, IBRIA MEDEIROS, JOO BOTA, AND MIGUEL

CORREIA

8 Domain Generation Algorithm Detection Techniques through

Network Analysis and Machine Learning .......................................... 269

FEDERICA BISIO, SALVATORE SAELI, AND DANILO MASSA

9 Identifying IoT-Based Botnets: A Microservice Architecture for

IoT Management and Security........................................................... 293

THARUN KAMMARA AND MELODY MOH

10 Understanding and Detecting Social Botnet.......................................327

YUEDE JI AND QIANG LI

11 Use of Botnets for Mining Cryptocurrencies ......................................359

RENITA MURIMI

12 Time to Diverge the Botnet Revenues from Criminal Wallet?............387

GIOVANNI BOTTAZZI, GIANLUIGI ME, PIERLUIGI PERRONE, AND

GIUSEPPE GIULIO RUTIGLIANO

Index............................................................................................................403