Detecting malicious activities with user-agent-based profiles

Yang Zhang, Hesham Mekky, Zhi-Li Zhang, Ruben Torres, Sung-Ju Lee, Alok Tongaonkar, Marco Mellia

Abstract: This paper presents a novel approach to robustly separate and classify applications transported over HTTP using user‐agent (UA) strings, with the goal of detecting malicious applications or activitie...