Research Article

Characterizing Anomalies in Malware-Generated HTTP Traffic

Table 17

The payload entropy statistics for HTTP requests (benign traffic) in bits.

BrowserMedianMean1st quartile3rd quartileMin valueMax value

Edge Win104.844.744.624.992.735.72
Chrome Win74.814.714.425.101.005.93
Firefox-FP Win74.724.303.244.921.005.76
Firefox Win74.824.724.435.161.005.75
IE11 Win74.804.724.435.092.505.94
Chrome Win8.14.744.393.244.961.006.13
Firefox Win8.14.834.704.535.021.005.78
IE11 Win8.14.824.764.594.982.505.72