Visualizing geolocation of spam email

With the recent surge in cyber attacks, there is a growing demand for effective security analytics tools. Though, there are advanced data collection techniques in the form of honeypots and malware collectors, the value of data are only as useful as the analysis technique used. One of the primary drawbacks of current security analytic tools is the lack of visualization controls to effectively analyze the data. In this paper, we develop a visualization tool to analyze the geographical locations of spammers based on the integration of MaxMind and WhoIS databases with Google Maps API. The visualization tool provides an insight into spam origins, along with patterns of spammers identified from spam activity. A key component in the development of this tool is its extensible framework allowing for the addition of resources to retrieve more information about a spammer and analyze additional patterns of spammers for spam analysis.