{"title":"Monetizing spambot activity and understanding its relation with spambot traffic features","authors":"F. Gillani, E. Al-Shaer, Sardar Ali, S. A. Khayam","doi":"10.1145/2414456.2414486","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A myriad of studies are reporting an exponential increase in the number and size of worldwide botnets [1, 2, 15, 17, 20, 21]. For instance, it has been reported that the Storm botnet increased by a factor of three during the second quarter of 2008. The reason of such exponential growth is the financial gain that these spam botnets can generate [1, 2, 3]. Absent grounded empirical data, it is challenging to reconcile \"revenue estimates\" that can range from $2M/day for one spam botnet [4]. Paxson et. al [1] have documented 82,000 and 37,00 monthly orders for seven counterfeit pharmacies and counterfeit software stores, respectively. The spammers running all these spams generally purchase time from a bot master to launch a spam campaign with a single objective to increase their respective profit margins from such spam campaigns.","PeriodicalId":72308,"journal":{"name":"Asia CCS '22 : proceedings of the 2022 ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security : May 30-June 3, 2022, Nagasaki, Japan. ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (17th : 2022 : Nagasaki-shi, Japan ; ...","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2012-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Asia CCS '22 : proceedings of the 2022 ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security : May 30-June 3, 2022, Nagasaki, Japan. ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (17th : 2022 : Nagasaki-shi, Japan ; ...","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2414456.2414486","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A myriad of studies are reporting an exponential increase in the number and size of worldwide botnets [1, 2, 15, 17, 20, 21]. For instance, it has been reported that the Storm botnet increased by a factor of three during the second quarter of 2008. The reason of such exponential growth is the financial gain that these spam botnets can generate [1, 2, 3]. Absent grounded empirical data, it is challenging to reconcile "revenue estimates" that can range from $2M/day for one spam botnet [4]. Paxson et. al [1] have documented 82,000 and 37,00 monthly orders for seven counterfeit pharmacies and counterfeit software stores, respectively. The spammers running all these spams generally purchase time from a bot master to launch a spam campaign with a single objective to increase their respective profit margins from such spam campaigns.