Botnet Research Survey

Botnets are emerging threat with hundreds of millions of computers infected. A study shows that about 40% of all computers connected to the internet in the world are infected bots and controlled by attackers. This article is a survey of recent advances in botnet research. The survey classifies the botnet research into three areas: understanding botnets, detecting and tracking botnets, and defending against botnets. While botnets are widespread, the research and solutions for botnets are still in their infancy. The paper also summarizes the existing research and proposes future directions for botnet research.

[1]  Vinod Yegneswaran,et al.  An Inside Look at Botnets , 2007, Malware Detection.

[2]  Ken Chiang,et al.  A Case Study of the Rustock Rootkit and Spam Bot , 2007, HotBots.

[3]  Brian Rexroad,et al.  Wide-Scale Botnet Detection and Characterization , 2007, HotBots.

[4]  Andreas Terzis,et al.  My Botnet Is Bigger Than Yours (Maybe, Better Than Yours): Why Size Estimates Remain Challenging , 2007, HotBots.

[5]  Guofei Gu,et al.  BotMiner: Clustering Analysis of Network Traffic for Protocol- and Structure-Independent Botnet Detection , 2008, USENIX Security Symposium.

[6]  Thorsten Holz,et al.  Rishi: Identify Bot Contaminated Hosts by IRC Nickname Evaluation , 2007, HotBots.

[7]  Wenke Lee,et al.  Modeling Botnet Propagation Using Time Zones , 2006, NDSS.

[8]  Vinod Yegneswaran,et al.  BotHunter: Detecting Malware Infection Through IDS-Driven Dialog Correlation , 2007, USENIX Security Symposium.

[9]  Guofei Gu,et al.  BotSniffer: Detecting Botnet Command and Control Channels in Network Traffic , 2008, NDSS.

[10]  Nick Feamster,et al.  Understanding the network-level behavior of spammers , 2006, SIGCOMM 2006.

[11]  Andreas Terzis,et al.  A multifaceted approach to understanding the botnet phenomenon , 2006, IMC '06.

[12]  Nick Feamster,et al.  Revealing Botnet Membership Using DNSBL Counter-Intelligence , 2006, SRUTI.

[13]  Neil Daswani,et al.  The Anatomy of Clickbot.A , 2007, HotBots.

[14]  Felix C. Freiling,et al.  Measurements and Mitigation of Peer-to-Peer-based Botnets: A Case Study on Storm Worm , 2008, LEET.

[15]  John Aycock,et al.  Army of Botnets , 2007, NDSS.

[16]  Brent Byunghoon Kang,et al.  Peer-to-Peer Botnets: Overview and Case Study , 2007, HotBots.

[17]  Ping Wang,et al.  An Advanced Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Botnet , 2007, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.

[18]  Guofei Gu,et al.  A Taxonomy of Botnet Structures , 2007, ACSAC.

[19]  Alex Brodsky,et al.  A Distributed Content Independent Method for Spam Detection , 2007, HotBots.

[20]  Felix C. Freiling,et al.  Botnet Tracking: Exploring a Root-Cause Methodology to Prevent Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks , 2005, ESORICS.