6th European Conference - Academic Conferences

Manoj Cherukuri and Srinivas Mukkamala
Figure 14: Screenshot of the website legalizationofmarijuana.com
Figure 15: Screenshot of the website howtogrowmarijuanablog.com
The Figures 14, 15 and 16 are screenshots of malicious websites linking to other malicious websites.
All these three sites are malicious and have links to each other under the section links on the left
column of the page (marked in box).
5.4 Clustering coefficient of malicious websites
Clustering coefficient was computed among the malicious websites to identify the closeness among
the malicious websites and compared it with the clustering coefficient of the legitimate websites to
understand the differences in the linking mechanism. The clustering coefficient of the malicious
websites was identified to be 0.18 and a significant portion of this value is contributed by the
facilitating websites. On the other side, the clustering coefficient of the legitimate websites was
identified to be 0.59, which is more than three times the clustering coefficient of the malicious
websites. This shows that the links among the malicious websites are low in number.
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