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A multi-layered approach to botnet detection
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ABSTRACT The goal of this research was to design a multi-layered architecture for the detection of a wide range of existing and new botnets. By not relying on a single technique but rather building in the ability to support multiple techniques, the goal is to be able to
Take a deep breath: A stealthy, resilient and cost-effective botnet using skype
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Skype is one of the most used P2P applications on the Internet: VoIP calls, instant messaging, SMS and other features are provided at a low cost to millions of users. Although Skype is a closed source application, an API allows developers to build custom plugins
Analysis of Botnet behavior using Queuing theory
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ABSTRACT With the rapid development of information technology, internet has affect the people in all aspects such as public utilities, telecommunication, financial transaction and defense system, all depends on information technology and their security. By using latest
Combating the Botnet Scourge
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ABSTRACT Recently, the increase in spam, distributed denialof-service (DDoS) attacks, and other acts of online crime are facilitated by botnets, which are networks of compromised computer systems executing bot programs. In this paper, we precisely define the terms
Challenges in experimenting with botnet detection systems
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ABSTRACT In this paper, we examine the challenges faced when evaluating botnet detection systems. Many of these challenges stem from difficulties in obtaining and sharing diverse sets of real network traces, as well as determining a botnet ground truth in such traces. On
Stegobot: A covert social network botnet
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We propose Stegobot, a new generation botnet that communicates over probabilistically unobservable communication channels. It is designed to spread via social malware attacks and steal information from its victims. Unlike conventional botnets, Stegobot traffic does
A sms-based mobile botnet using flooding algorithm
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As a lot of sophisticated duties are being migrated to mobile phones, they are gradually becoming hot targets of hackers. Actually, during the past few years, It has appeared many malware targeting mobile phones and the situation is getting worse. Under this
Mining concept-drifting data stream to detect peer to peer botnet traffic
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ABSTRACT We propose a novel stream data classification technique to detect Peer to Peer botnet. Botnet traffic can be considered as stream data having two important properties: infinite length and drifting concept. Thus, stream data classification technique is more
Intelligent botnet attacks in modern Information warfare
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ABSTRACT. Botnets, networks of compromised and remotely controlled computers (bots) are widely used in many internet attacks. Botnets are the main reason of growing number of unsolicited emails (SPAM), identity and confidential data theft attacks and many other
Detecting botnet membership with dnsbl counterintelligence
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Internet malice has evolved from pranks conceived and executed by amateur hackers to a global business involving significant monetary gains for the perpetrators [20]. Examples include:(1) unsolicited commercial email (spam), which threatens to render email
Detection and Prevention Methods of Botnet-generated Spam
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ABSTRACT Although anti-spam measures are improving, the spam volume is increasing due to the use of Botnets. Botnets facilitate an efficient generation and guaranteed delivery of large volumes of spam. Spambots, or spam-generating bots, use different transmission methods
A game-theoretical approach for finding optimal strategies in a botnet defense model
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Botnets are networks of computers infected with malicious programs that allow cybercriminals/botnet herders to control the infected machines remotely without the user’s knowledge. In many cases, botnet herders are motivated by economic incentives and try
Detection and classification of different botnet C&C channels
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Unlike other types of malware, botnets are characterized by their command and control (C&C) channels, through which a central authority, the botmaster, may use the infected computer to carry out malicious activities. Given the damage botnets are capable of
Botnet detection through fine flow classification
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ABSTRACT The prevalence of botnets, which is defined as a group of infected machines, have become the predominant factor among all the internet malicious attacks such as DDoS, Spam, and Click fraud. The number of botnets is steadily increasing, and the characteristic
Liability for Botnet Attacks
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Page 1. Liability for Botnet Attacks Jennifer A. Chandler because the ”arms race” between hackers and the Introduction Although suit the needs of buyers in the underground botnet a user’s personal investments in security will offer him or market.
Transparent Botnet Control for Smartphones over SMS
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Botnet Detection by Abnormal IRC Traffic Analysis
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ABSTRACT. Recently, Botnet has become one of the most severe threats on the Internet because it is hard to be prevented and cause huge losses. Prior intrusion detection system researches focused on traditional threats like virus, worm or Torjan. However, traditional
A Host-Based Approach to BotNet Investigation?
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Robot Networks (BotNets) are one of the most serious threats faced by the online community today. Since their appearance in the late 1990’s, much effort has been expended in trying to thwart their unprecedented growth. However, with robust and advanced capabilities, it is
Botnet Analysis
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ABSTRACT This paper discusses the current societal impact, design, implementation and use of botnets, as well as motivations for botnet creation. Additionally, we provide a generalized description of basic analysis techniques for reverse engineering botnets. The tools
Comparison of the mean-field approach and simulation in a peer-to-peer botnet case study
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Peer-to-peer botnets, as exemplified by the Storm Worm, and the spreading phase of Stuxnet, are a relatively new threat to security on the internet: infected computers automatically search for other computers to be infected, thus spreading the infection
Cross-analysis of botnet victims: New insights and implications
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In this paper, we analyze a large amount of infection data for three major botnets: Conficker, MegaD, and Srizbi. These botnets represent two distinct types of botnets in terms of the methods they use to recruit new victims. We propose the use of cross-analysis between
Analysis of the kraken botnet
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Purpose This document provides a concise analysis of the Kraken botnet. In addition to detailing the technical specifics of the Kraken bot malware and its communication with the Command and Control (CnC), this report includes a brief set of instructions for confirming
A Botnet by Any Other Name
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The news has been awash the last few weeks with fears over globe-spanning botnets and their criminal intent: Conficker managed to hog the limelight for well over a month, and then came Finjan’s disclosure of a previously unknown–and currently unnamed–botnet
Botnet scams are exploding
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Storm was first to make wide use of peer-to-peer, or P2P, communications-the technology that allows one computer to share files with any other computer across the Internet. Bots in a botnet typically receive instructions from a central PC, called the command-and-control
Bot and Botnet Taxonomy
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Capabilities include: DDoS, exploits, scanning, SOCKS proxy, password theft, packet sniffing, CD key theft• Used to build attack botnets• Server information is usually static
The Botnet Threat: Targeting Your Business
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Robot armies. Zombie legions. Slave hordes programmed to follow the orders of malevolent masters concealed, out of reach, hundreds or thousands of miles away. It may sound like the plot from a cliched sci-fi or horror movie. But it actually describes a key feature of the
IRC-Botnet Network Behavior Detection in Command and Control Phase Based on Sequential Temporal Analysis
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ABSTRACT The command and control phase of Botnet is most challenging to find due to normal-liked transmission messages. The bursty of network behavior is one of the obvious clues for identifying the Botnet in the phase. However it always involves uniform-
Botnet Visualization using DNS Traffic
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ABSTRACT. One of the major challenges for network security is the botnet. It is one of the major causes of network threats such as spam, DDoS (distributed denaialof-service) attacks, and so on. To be sure, there have been studies specifically concerning botnet detection, but
A proposed framework for P2P Botnet detection
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ABSTRACT Botnet is most widespread and occurs commonly in today’s cyber attacks, resulting in serious threats to our network assets and organization’s properties. Botnets are collections of compromised computers (Bots) which are remotely controlled by its
Fingerprinting custom botnet protocol stacks
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ABSTRACT This paper explores the use of TCP fingerprints for identifying and blocking spammers. Evidence has shown that some bots use custom protocol stacks for tasks such as sending spam. If a receiver could effectively identify the bot TCP fingerprint, connection
Winning with dns failures: Strategies for faster botnet detection
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Botnets such as Conficker and Torpig utilize high entropy domains for fluxing and evasion. Bots may query a large number of domains, some of which may fail. In this paper, we present techniques where the failed domain queries (NXDOMAIN) may be utilized for:(i)
Perseus: A Coding Theory-based Firefox Plug-in to Counter Botnet Activity
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ABSTRACT Most of the activity of botnets is based on the ability to listen and analyze http streams to retrieve and collect sensitive data (email address, login/password, credit card numbers). This paper present an operational solution to counter botnets’ activity through
Network characterization for botnet detection using statistical-behavioral methods
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ABSTRACT This thesis presents a framework for characterizing network behavior on an Ethernetprotocol network. We begin with the network traffic aggregated from packet series into sessions and hypothesize that from this data we can characterize a variety of
A UserID-Centralized Recoverable Botnet: Structure Research and Defense
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ABSTRACT. Nowadays, botnets have become common platforms for many Internet attacks. However, most of current Command and Control (C&C) architectures of botnets suffer from the risk of being shut down or poisoned. Once the C&C channel is disrupted, the whole
How to steal a botnet and what can happen when you do
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Botnets, which are networks of malware-infected machines that are controlled by an adversary, are the root cause of a large number of security threats on the Internet. A particularly sophisticated and insidious type of bot is Torpig, which is a malware program
Attack model and detection scheme for Botnet on 6LoWPAN
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ABSTRACT. Recently, Botnet has been used to launch spam-mail, key-logging, and DDoS attacks. Botnet is a network of bots which are controlled by attacker. A lot of detection mechanisms have been proposed to detect Botnet on wired network. However, in IP
Transparent Botnet Command and Control for Smartphones over SMS Shmoocon 2011
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As smartphones become increasingly ubiquitous and powerful, they become appealing targets for botnet infections. Many of the top selling smartphone platforms are built on common PC operating systems. This makes the transition from developing PC based malware to smartphone
Study of the Honeypot-Aware Peer-to-Peer Botnet and Its Feasibility
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The research objective of this project is to investigate one possible advanced botnet– honeypotaware peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet: verifying our analysis of the propagation of a honeypot-aware P2P botnet, and then showing the feasibility of developing a such botnet
A Survey of Botnet: Consequences, Dfenses and Challenges
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ABSTRACT. As technology has been developed, the network of bot, botnet, has been huge matter in computer science society. Most botnet causes network security threats and they are based on C&C server such as IRC, HTTP common protocol and recently botnet also
An Implementation Of Botnet Detection Algorithm For Grid Networks
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GP Reddy, AA Rao , Journal Communication and Network Security (IJCNS) ABSTRACT Grid is an emerging technology that aims at utilizing resources efficiently and effectively, A botnet is a collection of infected computers and the common attacks are A Distributed denial of service attack (DDOS) is any type of attack on a networking structure
ISPs and ad networks against botnet ad fraud
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Botnets are a serious threat on the Internet and require huge resources to be thwarted. ISPs are in the best position to fight botnets and there are a number of recently proposed initiatives that focus on how ISPs should detect and remediate bots. However, it is very
Advanced Methods for Botnet Intrusion Detection Systems
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Today, our dependence on the internet has grown manifold. So has the need to protect our vast personal information accessible via web interfaces such as online passwords, corporate secrets, online banking accounts, and social networking accounts like
Early Stage Botnet Detection and Containment via Mathematical Modeling and Prediction ofBotnet Propagation Dynamics
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ABSTRACT The research that we discuss in this technical report shows that mathematical models of botnet propagation dynamics are a viable means of detecting early stage botnet infections in an enterprise network, and thus an effective tool for containing those botnet
Poster: Bottleneck: A Generalized, Flexible, and Extensible Framework for Botnet Defense
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In this poster we propose Bottleneck, a framework that meets all the design objectives set above. We realize an instance of this general framework using a Bayesian network which allows the system to make evidence-based predictive and diagnostic inferences for bot
Case Study of the Miner Botnet
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NCCD COE ,pnx.tf ABSTRACT Malware and botnets are one of the most serious threats to today’s Internet security. In this paper, we characterise the so-called Miner Botnet. It received major media attention after massive distributed denial of service attacks against a wide range of German and
Spamming Botnet Characterizing By Latent Intentions Discovery
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CH Mao, CC Lin, KC Chang, PT Chen, C Faloutsos ABSTRACT. Spamming botnet has been widely used to send a considerable number of spam for evading the blacklist from information security communities and internet service provider (ISP). Spamming botnet makes the anti-spam be more difficult due to dispersed sending
Strategies and issues in current botnet detection
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A Gupta, M Kumar ABSTRACT Botnets are networks of compromised computers with malicious code which are remotely controlled and which are used for starting distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, sending enormous number of emails (SPAM) and other sorts of attacks. There-
SAME BOTNET, SAME GUYS, NEW CODE
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PM Bureau ,go.eset.com ABSTRACT Win32/Kelihos first appeared at the very end of 2010. There are many things that make this malware stand out. First of all, it uses a custom peer-to-peer network protocol. It also shares many similarities in terms of code and endgame with Win32/Nuwar (the
Botnet Detection and Analysis Using Honeynet
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MC Sacchetin, ARA Gregio, LO Duarte, A Montes ,FORENSIC COMPUTER ,icofcs.org ABSTRACT In this work we discuss some new techniques used by intruders to control a group of compromised machines (botnets). It is also shown how honeynets can be used to identify, monitor and understand current botnets behavior. We outline a real case of compromise,
Building an Anti-Botnet Platform to Mitigate Botnet
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SS TSENG, AIC LU, N HSU, GDA TSAI, CH KU ABSTRACT In recent years, with the rapid growth of the Internet applications and services, botnet becomes one of the most severe threats on the Internet. Because the botnets can be automatically evolved as different localized versions in a short period of time, how to find
Botnet Detection Using DNS Query And Migration Algorithm
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ABSTRACT Botnet is a malware and they are emerging as the most serious threats against cyber security. They does various illegal activities like distributed denial of service attack, malware spreading, and phishing and click fraud. Their intentions are to get financial
The probability model of peer-to-peer botnet propagation
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Active Peer-to-Peer worms are great threat to the network security since they can propagate in automated ways and flood the Internet within a very short duration. Modeling a propagation process can help us to devise effective strategies against a worm’s spread.
Towards Realization of Large-Scale Botnet Probing Events
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ABSTRACT -Today’s attack scenery is governed by Botnets. Botnet refer to a group of bots-a sort of malware which allows an attacker to achieve complete control over the affected computer. Botnets are often run by malicious programmers with specific skills while
Botnet Future Trend
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AH Far, H Jahankhani, R Ghazihesami ,me.kaspersky.com ABSTRACT Botnets are one of the most dangerous threats on the web. They operate like a distributed network and have two main components: the Botnet (or Zombies) and the Botmaster. Their target is to steal valuable information from business (which constitutes
A New Generation Peer-to-Peer Advanced Botnet
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R Mathew ABSTRACT A botnet is a network of compromised computers that are infected with code that allows an unauthorized user to control them via the Internet. Botnets are one of the most serious threats to today’s Internet. Most current botnets have centralized command and
Towards Detection of Botnet Communication through Social Media by Monitoring User Activity
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A new generation of botnets abuses popular social media like Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube as Command and Control channel. This challenges the detection of Command and Control traffic, because traditional IDS approaches, based on statistical flow anomalies,
Botnet Command Detection using Virtual Honeynet
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JS Bhatia, RK Sehgal, S Kumar ,International Journal ABSTRACT. Internet attacks are growing with time, threats are increasing to disable infrastructure to those that also target peoples and organization, these increasing large attacks, and the new class of attacks directly targets the large businesses and .