| APT | Advanced Persistent Threat |
| TP | True Positive |
| TPR | True Positive Rate |
| TN | True Negative |
| FP | False Positive |
| FN | False Negative |
| Iot | Internet of Things |
| CK | Cuckoo |
| TTL | Time To Live |
| LR | Logistic Regression |
| DNS | Domain Name Server |
| MDPI | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
| DOAJ | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| TLA | Three letter acronym |
| LD | Linear dichroism |