Efficient Directory Harvest Attacks and Countermeasures
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The goal of the DHA attacker is to identify valid e-mail addresses in a system, which addresses can be sold or used for spamming purposes.To achieve the goal the attacker tries numerous different addresses and selects valid addresses according to the response of the e-mail server. We elaborated a method for optimizing the wordlist size used by the attacker under limited resources.