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Using Domain Name Registrant Information to Identify Malicious Domains

January 2016 Presentation
Mark Langston

In this this FloCon presentation, the author describes how phony addresses may be predictive of future bad behavior from domains not yet known to be malicious.

Publisher:

CERT Division

Abstract

By mining WHOIS registrant data for physical addresses associated with known-malicious domains, we can identify the popular use of phony registrant addresses. This presentation covers how these phony addresses may be predictive of future bad behavior from domains not yet known to be malicious.