Albanese, MassimilianoVenkatesan, Sridhar2018-10-222018-10-222017https://hdl.handle.net/1920/11315A botnet is a network of compromised machines remotely controlled by an attacker. Over the past two decades, the modus operandi of botnets has evolved to facilitate a wide array of attacks ranging from stealthy exfiltration of sensitive data to large-scale Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. As a result, botnets have emerged as one of the biggest threats to the Internet ecosystem.144 pagesenCopyright 2017 Sridhar VenkatesanComputer scienceDissertation