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Table 1 An example of evidence-symptom-action casuality

From: Catching modern botnets using active integrated evidential reasoning

Category

Evidence

Symptom

Action

E1(I&A)

e11(S c a n n i n g)

s1(high TCP failure rate)

a1 (snort)

s2(fast varying dest ports)

a2 (argus)

e12(S p a m m i n g)

s3(high volume TCP/25)

a3 (NetFlow)

s4(multi DNS MX queries)

a4 (DNS log)

  

s5(multi SMTP dest)

a5 (snort)

E2(C&C)

e21(P 2P)

s1(high TCP failure rate)

a1 (snort)

s6(high In-and-Out degree)

a6 (Script 1)

  

s7(high Max Degree Ratio)

a7 (Script 2)