Corresponding Author: Atef Ahmed Obeidat Department of Information Technology, Al-Huson University College, Al-Balqa Applied University, Salt, Jordan Email: [email protected] Abstract: Botnets remain an active security problem on the Internet and various computer networks. They are continuously developing with regard to protocols, structure and quality of attacks. Many botnet detection programs ...

It’s increasingly difficult to detect botnets since the introduction of P2P communication. The flow characteristics and behaviors can be easily hidden if an attacker exploits the common P2P applications’ protocol to build the network and communicate. In this paper, we analyze two potential command and control mechanisms for Parasite P2P Botnet, we then identify the quasi periodical pattern of t...

Covert channels have the unique quality of masking evidence that a communication has ever occurred between two parties. For spies and terrorist cells, this quality can be the difference between life and death. However, even the detection of communications in a botnet could be troublesome for its creators. To evade detection and prevent insights into the size and members of a botnet, covert chan...

The botnet is a group of hijacked computers, which are employed under command and control mechanism administered by a botmaster. Botnet evolved from IRC based centralized botnet to employing common protocols such as HTTP with decentralized architectures and then peer-to-peer designs. As Botnets have become more sophisticated, the need for advanced techniques and research against botnets has gro...

As technology has been developed rapidly, botnet threats to the global cyber community are also increasing. And the botnet detection has recently become a major research topic in the field of network security. Most of the current detection approaches work only on the evidence from single information source, which can not hold all the traces of botnet and hardly achieve high accuracy. In this pa...

The botnet is considered as a critical issue of the Internet due to its fast growing mechanism and affect. Recently, Botnets have utilized the DNS and query DNS server just like any legitimate hosts. In this case, it is difficult to distinguish between the legitimate DNS traffic and illegitimate DNS traffic. It is important to build a suitable solution for botnet detection in the DNS traffic an...

P2P botnet is one of the most critical threats to the current Internet security. In this paper, we propose a session-based analysis and minimum vertex cover mining detecting model for core nodes of P2P botnets. This model is focused on solving the core nodes of botnet and has a good performance when the characteristics of botnet are changed to avoid detecting. The simulation experiments reveal ...

Botnets are prevailing mechanisms for the facilitation of the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on computer networks or applications. Currently, Botnet-based DDoS attacks on the application layer are latest and most problematic trends in network security threats. Botnet-based DDoS attacks on the application layer limits resources, curtails revenue, and yields customer dissatisfaction...

Malicious software infects large numbers of computers around the world. Once compromised, the computers become part of a botnet and take part in many forms of criminal activity, including the sending of unsolicited commercial email or spam. As mobile devices become tightly integrated with the Internet, associated threats such as botnets have begun to migrate onto the devices. This paper describ...