Botconf 2017

Use Your Enemies: Tracking Botnets with Bots

Use Your Enemies: Tracking Botnets with Bots Botconf 2017 Wednesday | 14:55 – 15:45 Jarosław Jedynak 🗣 | Paweł Srokosz 🗣 Botnets are a curious thing for malware researchers. Although we’re constantly trying to shut them down and stop the responsible people, we’re also focusing a lot of attention on studying and analysing their inner workings in …

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Automation Of Internet-Of-Things Botnets Takedown By An ISP

Automation Of Internet-Of-Things Botnets Takedown By An ISP Botconf 2017 Wednesday | 16:45 – 17:15 Sébastien Mériot 🗣 For the past 12 months, the Internet-Of-Things botnets have made the headlines. Behind the media noise lies a threat that could be easily remedied by taking appropriate actions to discourage the herders which, most of the time, …

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Malware Uncertainty Principle: an Alteration of Malware Behavior by Close Observation

Malware Uncertainty Principle: an Alteration of Malware Behavior by Close Observation Botconf 2017 Thursday | 10:20 – 10:50 Maria Jose Erquiaga 🗣 | Sebastián García | Carlos Garcia Garino During the last couple of years there has been an important surge on the use of HTTPs by malware. The exact reason for this increase is not completely understood yet, …

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Knock Knock… Who’s there? admin admin, Get In! An Overview of the CMS Brute-Forcing Malware Landscape

Knock Knock… Who’s there? admin admin, Get In! An Overview of the CMS Brute-Forcing Malware Landscape Botconf 2017 Thursday | 11:10 – 11:50 Anna Shirokova 🗣 | Veronica Valeros With more than 18M websites on the internet using WordPress [1] and hundreds of known vulnerabilities reported [2], this and other well-known Content Management Systems (CMS) have been …

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Automation Attacks at Scale

Automation Attacks at Scale Botconf 2017 Thursday | 11:50 – 12:30 Will Glazier 🗣 | Mayank Dhiman Automation attacks are currently plaguing organizations in industries ranging from financial to retail, to gaming & entertainment. These attacks exploit stolen credential leaks, black market & custom attack toolkits, and massively scalable infrastructure to launch widely distributed attacks that are …

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Malpedia: A Collaborative Effort to Inventorize the Malware Landscape

Malpedia: A Collaborative Effort to Inventorize the Malware Landscape Botconf 2017 Thursday | 14:00 – 15:00 Daniel Plohmann 🗣 | Martin Clauß | Steffen Enders | Elmar Padilla In this paper, we introduce Malpedia, our take on a collaborative platform for the curation of a coherent corpus of cleanly labeled, unpacked malware samples. Illustrating one of the use cases for this …

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Augmented Intelligence to Scale Humans Fighting Botnets

Augmented Intelligence to Scale Humans Fighting Botnets Botconf 2017 Thursday | 16:00 – 16:30 Yuriy Yuzifovich 🗣 | Hongliang Liu | Alexey Sarychev | Amir Asiaee We propose and implement a novel method of discovering botnet activities by identifying new core domains (domains that are directly below a TLD) that appear in real-time DNS query traffic as suspicious, and discovering botnet …

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