NDLI: Detection of StegoBot: a covert social network botnet

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Natarajan, V. Sheen, Shina Anitha, R.
Abstract	StegoBot is a recently discovered social network security threat that allows probabilistically unobservable communication through social network. The main aim of a Stegobot is to spread social malware and steal the information from targeted machines. Stegobot takes the advantage of image Steganography to hide the presence of communication within the image sharing behavior of user interaction. In this paper, we present a detection scheme to detect StegoBot. We analyzed different entropies of images to show that image files are generally very sensitive to embedding. Ensemble classification is employed here as a powerful tool that allows fast detection of StegoBot. The power of the proposed framework is demonstrated on different social networks with different evaluation metrics.
Starting Page	36
Ending Page	41
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450318228
DOI	10.1145/2490428.2490433
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2012-08-17
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Covert channel Control channel Command Stegobot image entropy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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Detection of StegoBot: a covert social network botnet