2 papers
cs.CR2022
Devils in the Clouds: An Evolutionary Study of Telnet Bot Loaders
Yuhui Zhu, Zhenxiang Chen, Qiben Yan +6
One of the innovations brought by Mirai and its derived malware is the adoption of self-contained loaders for infecting IoT devices and recruiting them in botnets. Functionally dec…
cs.CR2022
Mining Function Homology of Bot Loaders from Honeypot Logs
Yuhui Zhu, Zhenxiang Chen, Qiben Yan +4
Self-contained loaders are widely adopted in botnets for injecting loading commands and spawning new bots. While researchers can dissect bot clients to get various information of b…