A Short Visit to the Bot Zoo
A short paper by Elias Levy and Ivan Arce.
This paper starts by explaining the origin and evolution of bots into their current state. It further goes on to explain the bot characteristics and explains how bots work essentially by means of a remote control mechanism.
It further goes on to explain botnet topologies, such as centralized, P2P and random. It mentions that the typical functions that happen over remote control networks are either DoS attacks or updates. The remote control facility and the commands that can be executed from it differentiate a bot from a worm, a program that propagates itself by attacking other systems and copying itself to them.
It further goes on to explain the various types of bots along with short descriptions of each.
This paper starts by explaining the origin and evolution of bots into their current state. It further goes on to explain the bot characteristics and explains how bots work essentially by means of a remote control mechanism.
It further goes on to explain botnet topologies, such as centralized, P2P and random. It mentions that the typical functions that happen over remote control networks are either DoS attacks or updates. The remote control facility and the commands that can be executed from it differentiate a bot from a worm, a program that propagates itself by attacking other systems and copying itself to them.
It further goes on to explain the various types of bots along with short descriptions of each.
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