BotFinder
Florian Tegeler, Xiaoming Fu, Giovanni Vigna, Christopher Kruegel · 2012
Bots are the root cause of many security problems on the Internet, as they send spam, steal information from infected machines, and perform distributed denial-of-service attacks. Many approaches to bot detection have been proposed, but they either rely on end-host installations, or, if they operate on network traffic, require deep packet inspection for signature matching.