An Exploration of the Identifying Characteristics of Spam Campaign Address Lists

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" An Exploration of the Identifying Characteristics of Spam Campaign Address Lists "
Gardner, Christopher Patrick

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	898082
Doc. No	:	TL05z017qc
Main Entry	:	Baghdadi, Jonathan Daniel
Title & Author	:	An Exploration of the Identifying Characteristics of Spam Campaign Address Lists\ Gardner, Christopher Patrick
Date	:	2015
student score	:	2015
Abstract	:	In this paper, email addresses targeted by several botnets including Grum, MegaD, Pushdo, Rustock, Srizbi, and Storm are analyzed for two goals. These addresses are organized into various lists which were gathered from these botnets. The first goal of this analysis is to determine how each botnet collected the addresses they send spam to solely from the addresses in the lists. This is performed using Google searches, by reviewing the duplicated and invalid addresses within each list, and by examining the addresses shared between lists. The second goal is to determine if a classifier can be created from the domain distributions of the addresses in these lists. This classifier must be able to correctly identify the source botnet from a set of targeted addresses and must correctly distinguish between botnets. The top-level (TLD), country-code (ccTLD), and registered domain distributions will be used in this analysis
Added Entry	:	Gardner, Christopher Patrick
Added Entry	:	UC San Diego