SkyNET is a stealth network that connects hosts to a botmaster through a mobile drone. The network is comprised of machines on home Wi-Fi networks in a proximal urban area, and one or more autonomous attack drones. The SkyNET is used by a botmaster to command their botnet(s) without using the Internet. The drones are programmed to scour an urban area and compromise wireless networks. Once compr...

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 distributio...

Botnets are a disastrous threat because they execute malicious activities such as distributed denial-of-service, spam email, malware downloads (such as eggdownloads), and spying by exploiting zombie PCs under their control. Botnets infect PCs on a huge scale by initially scanning the service ports of vulnerable applications for the purpose of propagation, which is leveraged as the size of the b...

The increasing popularity and improvement in capabilities offered by smartphones caught the attention of botnet developers. Now the threat of botnets is moving towards the mobile environment. A mobile botnet is defined as a collection of compromised smartphones controlled by a botmaster through a command and control network to serve a malicious purpose. This study presents the design of a hybri...

Botnet Proteus dianggap sebagai salah satu botnet yang mengerikan dampaknya terhadap dunia internet di kisaran tahun 2017, ini mulai dideteksi akhir 2016 dan terus menyebar setelahnya. adalah sample virusnya sulit didapatkan sehingga sangat sedikit penelitian membahasnya. Dalam digunakan pendekatan static dinamis untuk proses analisis botnet, dilakukan dengan file virus secara langsung, sedangk...

Botnets, large international networks of infected computers (so-called bots), play a central part in the digital underground economy, providing the infrastructure required for a multitude of malicious activities. To ensure a botnet keeps running, the botnet owner utilizes specialized technologies to send control messages to his bots, while keeping resilience against take down and stealth agains...

Thenumbers of the botnet attacks areincreasing day by day and the detection of botnet spreading in the network has become very challenging. Bots are having specific characteristics incomparison of normal malware as they are controlled by the remote master server and usually don’t show their behavior like normal malware until they don’t receive any command from their master server. Most of time ...

An in-depth understanding of botnet behavior is a precursor to building effective defenses against this serious and growing threat. In this paper we describe our initial steps toward building a flexible and scalable laboratory testbed for experiments with bots and botnets. Our Botnet Evaluation Environment (BEE) is designed to enable individual bots or networks of up to thousands of bots to be ...

Botnets have traditionally used centralized architectures for command and control. In such architectures, a relatively small number of centralized servers is used to command the bots. Centralized botnet architectures are straightforward to deploy, but relatively easy to take down by disabling the command and control servers. In an effort to increase the resilience of their botnets, malware crea...

We formalize the problem of detecting presence a botnet in network as hypothesis testing where we observe single instance graph. The null hypothesis, corresponding to absence botnet, is modeled random geometric graph every vertex assigned location on $d$-dimensional torus and two vertices are connected when their distance smaller than certain threshold. alternative similar, except that there sm...