Honeynet-based botnet scan traffic analysis

摘要: With the increasing importance of Internet in everyone’s daily life, security poses a serious problem. Now-a-days, botnets are major tool to launch Internet-scale attacks. A “botnet” is network compromised machines that remotely controlled by an attacker. In contrast earlier hacking activities (mainly used show off attackers’ technique skills), better organized and mainly for profit-centered endeavors. For example, attacker can make profit through Email spam [1], click fraud [2], game accounts credit card numbers harvest, extortion DoS Although thorough understanding prevention very important. Currently, research community gains only limited insight into botnets. Several approaches help understand botnet phenomena: