Exploiting machine learning to subvert your spam filter

Authors:
Blaine Nelson;Marco Barreno;Fuching Jack Chi;Anthony D. Joseph;Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein;Udam Saini;Charles Sutton;J. D. Tygar;Kai Xia
Affiliations:
University of California, Berkeley;University of California, Berkeley;University of California, Berkeley;University of California, Berkeley;University of California, Berkeley;University of California, Berkeley;University of California, Berkeley;University of California, Berkeley;University of California, Berkeley
Venue:
LEET'08 Proceedings of the 1st Usenix Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats
Year:
2008

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Abstract

We develop new techniques to map botnet membership using traces of spam email. To group bots into botnets we look for multiple bots participating in the same spam email campaign. We have applied our technique against a trace of spam email from Hotmail ...