Abstract-Botnets are a major threat of the current Internet. Understanding the novel generation of botnets relying on peerto-peer networks is crucial for mitigating this threat. Nowadays, botnet traffic is mixed with a huge volume of benign traffic due to almost ubiquitous high speed networks. Such networks can be monitored using IP flow records but their forensic analysis form the major computational bottleneck. We propose in this paper a distributed computing framework that leverages a host dependency model and an adapted PageRank [1] algorithm. We report experimental results from an open-source based Hadoop cluster [2] and highlight the performance benefits when using real network traces from an Internet operator.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.