An Exploration of the Identifying Characteristics of Spam Campaign Address Lists
Journal: eScholarship (California Digital Library)
Year: 2015

In this paper, email addresses targeted by several botnets including Grum, MegaD, Pushdo, Rustock, Srizbi, and Storm are analyzed for two goals. These addresses are organized into various lists which were gathered from these botnets. The first goal of this analysis is to determine how each botnet collected the addresses they send spam to solely from the addresses in the lists. This is performed using Google searches, by reviewing the duplicated and invalid addresses within each list, and by exam