NDLI: Smart crawlers for flash-crowd DDoS: The attacker's perspective

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Drinfeld, D. Vlajic, N.
Copyright Year	2012
Description	Author affiliation: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, York University, Toronto, Canada (Drinfeld, D.; Vlajic, N.)
Abstract	Flash-crowd DDoS attacks — in which the attacking bots aim to appear indistinguishable from the regular visitors to the victim web-site — have only recently been identified in the literature. While generally seen as the most advanced and most potent type of DDoS, flash crowd attacks are only partially understood, and their practical viability is still very much unclear. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that takes the perspective of a potential attacker interested in executing a flash crowd DDoS, and looks at the challenges of designing a botnet that would carry out that execution effectively. The results of our study demonstrate that, through the use of some popular readily available Internet tools, the attacker is likely to succeed in harvesting critical information about any perspective victim site, and thus be in the position to customize his bots (i.e., make them behave very close to how a typical human visitor to the given site would behave). Clearly, better bot customization would imply more powerful and harder-to-defend-against DDoS attacks.
Starting Page	37
Ending Page	44
File Size	487993
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467311083
e-ISBN	9781908320049
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-06-10
Publisher Place	Canada
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Infonomics Society
Subject Keyword	Google Bot design Web pages Humans Estimation Web page popularity estimation Flash crowd attack Web-log analysis Internet Servers Computer crime Layer-7 DDoS
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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