Active-probing based distributed malware master detection system

Nowadays, botnet is still a kind of severe threat on the Internet. It wastes lots of time for traditional passive monitoring approaches to collect enough evidence, to detect and react. Only after real malicious activities occur can we find the existence of botnet. An active probing approach was prop...

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Main Authors: Cheng-xiang SI, Bo SUN, Wen-han YANG, Hui-lin ZHANG, Xiao-nan XUE
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Published: Editorial Department of Journal on Communications 2013-08-01
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Online Access:http://www.joconline.com.cn/zh/article/doi/10.3969/j.issn.1000-436x.2013.z1.026/
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author Cheng-xiang SI
Bo SUN
Wen-han YANG
Hui-lin ZHANG
Xiao-nan XUE
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Bo SUN
Wen-han YANG
Hui-lin ZHANG
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description Nowadays, botnet is still a kind of severe threat on the Internet. It wastes lots of time for traditional passive monitoring approaches to collect enough evidence, to detect and react. Only after real malicious activities occur can we find the existence of botnet. An active probing approach was proposed based on botnet controller's communication pro-tocol fingerprint. Botnet samples including client and server were analyzed and the command and control protocol of the botnet were collected. The communication protocol fingerprint was also extracted from controller's response message and the host on the Internet was scanned with the communication protocol fingerprint. Active Spear active probing system was designed and implemented based on the approach. The system employs distributed architecture and IP used in the scanning is dynamic. The system supports to scan many botnets owning different types of protocols as their command and control protocols. The functional verification in the testing environment proves the effectiveness of the approach and the evaluation to scanning efficiency in the real network environment shows the ability that the system can finish task of scanning a large scale of IP section in an acceptable time.
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spelling doaj-art-7dca3ce6b2574f7fb7864b17dbc67d612025-01-14T06:41:58ZzhoEditorial Department of Journal on CommunicationsTongxin xuebao1000-436X2013-08-013419720659677375Active-probing based distributed malware master detection systemCheng-xiang SIBo SUNWen-han YANGHui-lin ZHANGXiao-nan XUENowadays, botnet is still a kind of severe threat on the Internet. It wastes lots of time for traditional passive monitoring approaches to collect enough evidence, to detect and react. Only after real malicious activities occur can we find the existence of botnet. An active probing approach was proposed based on botnet controller's communication pro-tocol fingerprint. Botnet samples including client and server were analyzed and the command and control protocol of the botnet were collected. The communication protocol fingerprint was also extracted from controller's response message and the host on the Internet was scanned with the communication protocol fingerprint. Active Spear active probing system was designed and implemented based on the approach. The system employs distributed architecture and IP used in the scanning is dynamic. The system supports to scan many botnets owning different types of protocols as their command and control protocols. The functional verification in the testing environment proves the effectiveness of the approach and the evaluation to scanning efficiency in the real network environment shows the ability that the system can finish task of scanning a large scale of IP section in an acceptable time.http://www.joconline.com.cn/zh/article/doi/10.3969/j.issn.1000-436x.2013.z1.026/Botnetserveractive probedistributed systemprotocol analysis
spellingShingle Cheng-xiang SI
Bo SUN
Wen-han YANG
Hui-lin ZHANG
Xiao-nan XUE
Active-probing based distributed malware master detection system
Tongxin xuebao
Botnet
server
active probe
distributed system
protocol analysis
title Active-probing based distributed malware master detection system
title_full Active-probing based distributed malware master detection system
title_fullStr Active-probing based distributed malware master detection system
title_full_unstemmed Active-probing based distributed malware master detection system
title_short Active-probing based distributed malware master detection system
title_sort active probing based distributed malware master detection system
topic Botnet
server
active probe
distributed system
protocol analysis
url http://www.joconline.com.cn/zh/article/doi/10.3969/j.issn.1000-436x.2013.z1.026/
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