[转载]The Evolution of Malicious IRC Bots

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This paper will examine the core features of popular IRC bots and track their evolution from a single code base. This analysis will demonstrate how many of the common IRC bots such as Agobot, Randex, Spybot, and Phatbot actually share common source code. In addition, interesting techniques utilized by specific variants will also be presented.