A Distributed Stealthy Coordination Mechanism for Worm Synchronization

Gaurav Kataria; Gaurav Anand; Rudolph  Araujo; Ramayya  Krishnan; Adrian Perrig

2nd International ICST Conference on Security and Privacy in Comunication Networks

Research Article

A Distributed Stealthy Coordination Mechanism for Worm Synchronization

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    proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Security and Privacy in Comunication Networks},
    publisher={IEEE},
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    year={2007},
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Gaurav Kataria
Gaurav Anand
Rudolph Araujo
Ramayya Krishnan
Adrian Perrig
Year: 2007
A Distributed Stealthy Coordination Mechanism for Worm Synchronization
SECURECOMM
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SECCOMW.2006.359536

Gaurav Kataria¹, Gaurav Anand¹, Rudolph Araujo¹, Ramayya Krishnan¹, Adrian Perrig¹

1: Carnegie Mellon University

Abstract

Once a critical mass of nodes is infected by a worm it becomes very difficult to stop the worm from infecting a large fraction of vulnerable nodes. Therefore, the focus of strategies for worm defense has been to detect the worm before it reaches that critical mass. In this paper we present a novel distributed coordination technique for worm propagation and synchronization that can persist under the radar of detection mechanisms long enough to achieve critical mass for a full fledged attack. We discuss the stealthy worm propagation and synchronization approach exploiting a P2P file-sharing network

Published: 2007-05-15
Publisher: IEEE

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SECCOMW.2006.359536