6th European Conference - Academic Conferences

Manoj Cherukuri and Srinivas Mukkamala
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Figure 8: Count of malicious websites versus indegree (left) and outdegree on the log-log scale (right)
The average indegree of the malicious websites was 4.1 and the average outdegree of the malicious
websites was 3.9. The standard deviation of the indegree and the outdegree of the malicious
websites was 9.3 and 6.04 respectively. The average indegree was greater than the average
outdegree of the malicious websites, even though the indegree computation is limited to the crawled
dataset. This indicates that the malicious websites tend to have higher indegree over their outdegree.
Series1 represents count versus indegree and count versus outdegree in the left and the right graphs
respectively. The outdegree of the malicious websites was compared to the outdegree of the
legitimate websites. We avoided the indegree in this study as the indegrees are limited to the links
existing within the dataset. graph plotted with the outdegrees of the malicious and the legitimate
websites is shown in Figure 9.
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