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Abstract : Botnets are an emerging phenomenon that is becoming one of the most significant threats to cyber security and cyber crimes as they provide a distributed platform for several illegal activities such as launching distributed denial of service (DDoS), malware dissemination, phishing, identity theft, spamming, and click fraud. The characteristic of botnets is the use of command and control (C&C) channels through which they can be updated and directed. We investigate the state-of-art research on recent botnet analysis. This paper aims to provide a concise overview of existing botnets in multiple views. The major advantage of this paper is to identify the nature of the botnet problem and find the specific ways of detecting the botnet.