Using uncleanliness to predict future botnet addresses
M. Patrick Collins, Timothy J. Shimeall, Sidney Faber, Jeff Janies, Rhiannon Weaver, Markus De Shon, Joseph Born Kadane · 2007
The increased use of botnets as an attack tool and the awareness attackers have of blocking lists leads to the question of whether we can effectively predict future bot locations. To that end, we introduce a network quality that we term uncleanliness: an indicator of the propensity for hosts in a network to be compromised by outside parties.