An Effective Conversation-Based Botnet Detection Method

Table 2

Distribution of botnet types in the training dataset.

Botnet name	Type	Portion of dataset
Rbot	IRC, DDoS, US	0.1%
Virut	SPAM, PS, HTTP	0.485%
Menti	PS	3.89%
Sogou	HTTP	0.035%
Murlo	PS	1.64%
Neris	IRC, SPAM, CF, PS	31.3%