NDLI: Reexamining DNS from a global recursive resolver perspective

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Gao, Hongyu Porras, Phillip Yegneswaran, Vinod Ghosh, Shalini Jiang, Jian Chen, Yan Duan, Haixin
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	The performance and operational characteristics of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol are of deep interest to the research and network operations community. In this paper, we present measurement results from a unique dataset containing more than 26 billion DNS query-response pairs collected from more than 600 globally distributed recursive DNS resolvers. We use this dataset to reaffirm findings in published work and notice some significant differences that could be attributed both to the evolving nature of DNS traffic and to our differing perspective. For example, we find that although characteristics of DNS traffic vary greatly across networks, the resolvers within an organization tend to exhibit similar behavior. We further find that more than 50% of DNS queries issued to root servers do not return successful answers, and that the primary cause of lookup failures at root servers is malformed queries with invalid top-level domains (TLDs). Furthermore, we propose a novel approach that detects malicious domain groups using temporal correlation in DNS queries. Our approach requires no comprehensive labeled training set, which can be difficult to build in practice. Instead, it uses a known malicious domain as anchor and identifies the set of previously unknown malicious domains that are related to the anchor domain. Experimental results illustrate the viability of this approach, i.e., we attain a true positive rate of more than 96%, and each malicious anchor domain results in a malware domain group with more than 53 previously unknown malicious domains on average.
Starting Page	43
Ending Page	57
Page Count	15
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10636692
DOI	10.1109/TNET.2014.2358637
Volume Number	24
Issue Number	1
Journal	IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2016-02-01
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Domain Name System (DNS) Malicious domain detection Measurement
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Computer Networks and Communications Software Computer Science Applications

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