Study on Propagation and Control of Massive Botnet Based on Worms

Botnet is a novel attack strategy evolved from traditional malware forms;it provides the attackers stealthy,flexible and efficient one-to-many Command and Control mechanisms,which can be used to order an army of zombies to achieve the goals including information theft,launching distributed denial of service,and sending spam.In this paper,the concept is presented,the propagation characteristic is discussed,and the propagation policy of botnet is discussed.At last a new botnet detecting model is proposed,in which botnet propagation is detected and reported,to stop its propagation.