Nazca: Detecting Malware Distribution in Large-Scale Networks

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In this paper, we look at the collective network traffic produced by thousands of clients, and we detect malware downloads without analyzing the downloaded programs. Instead, we study patterns that become apparent only when leaving the myopic view of individual downloads, by observing malware distribution infrastructures as sophisticated and blacklist-resilient content distribution networks.