Research Article

An Effective Conversation-Based Botnet Detection Method

Table 3

Distribution of botnet types in the testing dataset.

Botnet nameTypePortion of dataset

NerisIRC, SPAM, CF3.21%
RbotIRC, PS, US2.646%
RbotIRC, DDoS, US0.088%
VirutSPAM, PS, HTTP0.4%
MentiPS3.33%
SogouHTTP0.036%
MurloPS1.4%
NerisIRC, SPAM, CF, PS28.9%
NSIS.ayP2P1.71%
VirutSPAM, PS, HTTP1.07%