Title
A Behaviour Study of Network-Aware Stealthy Worms
Abstract
This paper examines the general behaviour of stealthy worms. In particular, we focus on worms that are designed based on network awareness. We study the case where a worm, instead of aiming to spread as fast as possible and penetrate Intrustion Detection Systems (IDS), aims to avoid IDS and spread with the minimum number of detections. We compare different scanning strategies for this worm, including different combinations of hitlist and random scanning, and how they affect the number of infections and the rate of detected infection attempts. We compare the network-aware worm's behavior to that of the Code Red II worm. Simulations show that scanning worms can generate many fewer detections using localized scanning while maintaining its capability to infect.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/ICC.2009.5198577
Dresden
Keywords
Field
DocType
invasive software,Code Red II worm,intrusion detection systems,network awareness,network-aware stealthy worms
Computer security,Computer science,Network aware,Computer network,Network awareness,Cluster analysis,Intrusion detection system,Grippers
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1938-1883 E-ISBN : 978-1-4244-3435-0
978-1-4244-3435-0
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
10
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Craig Smith100.34
Ashraf Matrawy214626.98