Research Article

Detecting Web-Based Botnets Using Bot Communication Traffic Features

Table 1

Fields of a NetFlow V5 record.

Content Bytes offset Description

srcaddr 0–3 Source IP address
dstaddr 4–7 Destination IP address
dPkts 16–19 Packets in the flow
srcport 32-33 Source port number
dstport 34-35 Destination port number
prot 38 Protocol (6 = TCP, 17 = UDP)