Authors:
Ta-Te Lu
;
Hung-Yi Liao
and
Ming-Feng Chen
Affiliation:
Ching Yun University, Taiwan
Keyword(s):
Peer-to-peer, Botnets, Botnet 2.0, Hybrid peer-to-peer.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Communication and Software Technologies and Architectures
;
Computer-Supported Education
;
e-Business
;
Energy and Economy
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Technologies Supporting Learning
;
Mobile and Pervasive Computing
;
Security and Privacy
;
Sustainable Computing and Communications
;
Telecommunications
Abstract:
Recently, malware attacks have become more serious over the Internet by e-mail, denial of service (DoS) or distributed denial of service (DDoS). The Botnets have become a significant part of the Internet malware attacks. The traditional botnets include three parts – botmaster, command and control (C&C) servers and bots. The C&C servers receive commands from botmaster and control the distributions of computers remotely. Bots use DNS to find the positions of C&C server. In this paper, we propose an advanced hybrid peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet 2.0 (AHP2P botnet 2.0) using web 2.0 technology to hide the instructions from botmaster into social sites, which are regarded as C&C servers. Servent bots are regarded as sub-C&C servers to get the instructions from social sites. The AHP2P botnet 2.0 can evaluate the performance of servent bots, reduce DNS traffics from bots to C&C servers, and achieve harder detection bots actions than IRC-based botnets over the Internet.