Structured peer-to-peer overlay networks: Ideal botnets command and control infrastructures?

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5283 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 461-480

  Davis, Carlton R ^a   Neville, Stephen ^b   Fernandez, José M ^a   Robert, Jean Marc ^c   McHugh, John ^d  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTNET; COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; DISINFECTION; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OVERLAY NETWORKS; RHENIUM COMPOUNDS; SECURITY OF DATA; SECURITY SYSTEMS; STORMS;

COMMAND-AND-CONTROL INFRASTRUCTURES; COMPLEX NETWORK MODELS; DEGREE OF CONNECTIVITY; GLOBAL INFORMATIONS; RANDOM GRAPH MODELS; STRUCTURED PEER-TO-PEER; TREE-LIKE STRATEGIES; UNSTRUCTURED P2P NETWORK;

PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

EID: 57149103344     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-88313-5_30     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (38)

1. CNN Technology News: Expert: Botnets no. 1 emerging Internet threat (January 2006), www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/01/31/furst/
2. Washington Post Technology news: The botnet trackers (February 2006), www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/16/ AR2006021601388.html
3. New York Times Technology news: Attack of the zombie computers is growing threat (January 2007), www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/technology/07net.html
4. Dagon, D., Gu, G., Lee, C., Lee, W.: A taxonomy of botnets. In: Proc. Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December 2007, pp. 325-339 (2007)
5. Vogt, R., Aycock, J., Jacobson Jr., M.J.: Army of botnets. In: Proc. 14th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) (March 2007)
6. Ramachandran, A., Feamster, N.: Understanding the network-level behavior of spammers. In: Proc. Conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications (October 2006)
7. Lanelli, N., Hackworth, A.: Botnets as a vehicle for online crime (December 2005), www.cert.org/archive/pdf/Botnets.pdf
8. Bureau, P.M., Lee, A.: Malware storms: a global climate change. Virus Bulletin (November 2007), http://www.virusbtn.com
9. Oikarinen, J., Reed, D.: Internet relay chat protocol. Request for Comments (RFC 1459) (May 1993)
10. Cooke, E., Jahanian, F., McPherson, D.: The zombie roundup: Understanding, detecting, and disrupting botnets. In: Proc. 1st Conference on Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet (SRUTI) (July 2005)
11. Barford, P., Yegneswaran, V.: An inside look at botnets. Advances in Information Security 27, 171-191 (2007)
12. Binkley, J.R., Singh, S.: An algorithm for anomaly-based botnet detection. In: Proc. 2nd Conference on Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet (SRUTI) (July 2006)
13. Strayer, W.T., Walsh, R., Livadas, C., Lapsley, D.: Detecting botnets with tight command and control. In: Proc. 31st IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (November 2006)
14. Rajab, M.A., Zarfoss, J., Monrose, F., Terzis, A.: A multifaceted approach to understanding the botnet phenomenon. In: Proc. 6th ACM SIGCOMM Conference on Internet measurement (October 2006)
15. Gu, G., Zhang, J., Lee, W.: BotSniffer: Detecting botnet command and control channels in network traffic. In: Proc. 15th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) (February 2008)
16. Fisher, D.: Storm, nugache lead dangerous new botnet barrage (December 2007), http://SearchSecurity.com
17. Grizzard, J., Sharma, V., Nunnery, C., Kang, B., Dagon, D.: Peer-to-peer botnets: overview and case study. In: Proc. 1st Workshop on Hot Topics in Understanding Botnets (HotBots 2007) (April 2007)
18. Wang, P., Sparks, S., Zou, C.C.: An advanced hybrid peer-to-peer botnet. In: Proc. 1st Workshop on Hot Topics in Understanding Botnets (HotBots 2007) (April 2007)
19. Kutznet, K., Fuhrmann, T.: Measuring large overlay networks - the overnet example. In: Proc. Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen (KiVS) (March 2005)
20. Maymounkov, P., Mazières, D.: Kademlia: A peer-to-peer information system based on the XOR metric. In: Revised Papers from the 1st International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS) (March 2002)
21. Stewart, J.: Storm worm DDoS attack (February 2007), http://www. secureworks.com/research/threats/storm-worm
22. Utter, D.: Storm botnets using encrypted traffic (October 2007), http://www.securitypronews.com
23. Honeynet Project: Know your enemy: Fast-flux service networks (July 2007), http://www.honeynet.org/papers/honeynet
24. Gaudin, S.: Storm botnet puts up defenses and starts attacking back. Information-Week (August 2007), http://www.www.informationweek.com
25. Erdös, P., Rényi, A.: On random graphs I. Publ. Math. 15, 290-297 (1959)
26. Barabási, A.L., Albert, R.: Emergence of scaling in random networks. Science 286, 509-512 (1999)
27. Watts, D.J., Strogatz, S.H.: Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks. Nature 393, 440-442 (1998)
28. Albert, R., Jeong, H., Barabási, A.L.: Error and attack tolerance of complex networks. Nature 406, 378-382 (2000)
29. Crucitti, P., Latora, V., Marchiori, M., Rapisarda, A.: Error and attack tolerance of complex network. Physica A 340, 388-394 (2004)
30. Holme, P., Kim, B.J., Yoon, C.N., Han, S.K.: Attack vulnerability of complex networks. Physical Review E 65, 56109 (2002)
31. Stoica, I., Morris, R., Karger, D., Kaashoek, M., Balakrishnan, H.: Chord: a scalable peer-to-peer lookup service for internet applications. In: Proc. Annual ACM Conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM) (August 2001)
32. Gnutella forum: Gnutella (March 2001), http://www.gnutella.com
33. Clarke, I., Sandberg, O., Wiley, B., Hong, T.: Freenet: a distributed anonymous information storage and retrieval system. In: Proc. ICSIWorkshop on Design Issues in Anonymity and Unobservability (July 2000)
34. Bollobás, B.: Random Graphs. Academic Press, London (1985)
35. Csárdi, G.: The igraph library (2005), http://cneurocvs.rmki.kfki. hu/igraph
36. Ripeanu, M., Foster, I., Iamnitchi, A.: Mapping the gnutella network: Properties of large-scale peer-to-peer systems and implications for system design. IEEE Internet Computing Journal 6, 50 (2002)
37. Jovanovic, M., Annexstein, F., Berman, K.: Scalability issues in large peer-to-peer networks - a case study of gnutella. Technical report, University of Cincinnati (January 2001)
38. Newman, M., Strogatz, S., Watts, D.: Random graphs with arbitrary degree distributions and their applications. Physical Review E 64(026118) (2001)