NDLI: Towards automated distributed containment of zero-day network worms

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Shahzad, K. Woodhead, S.
Copyright Year	2014
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Greenwich, London, UK (Shahzad, K.; Woodhead, S.)
Abstract	Worms are a serious potential threat to computer network security. The high potential speed of propagation of worms and their ability to self-replicate make them highly infectious. Zero-day worms represent a particularly challenging class of such malware, with the cost of a single worm outbreak estimated to be as high as US$2.6 Billion. In this paper, we present a distributed automated worm detection and containment scheme that is based on the correlation of Domain Name System (DNS) queries and the destination IP address of outgoing TCP SYN and UDP datagrams leaving the network boundary. The proposed countermeasure scheme also utilizes cooperation between different communicating scheme members using a custom protocol, which we term Friends. The absence of a DNS lookup action prior to an outgoing TCP SYN or UDP datagram to a new destination IP addresses is used as a behavioral signature for a rate limiting mechanism while the Friends protocol spreads reports of the event to potentially vulnerable uninfected peer networks within the scheme. To our knowledge, this is the first implementation of such a scheme. We conducted empirical experiments across six class C networks by using a Slammer-like pseudo-worm to evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme. The results show a significant reduction in the worm infection, when the countermeasure scheme is invoked.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	7
File Size	686231
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
e-ISBN	9781479926961
DOI	10.1109/ICCCNT.2014.6963119
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2014-07-11
Publisher Place	China
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Limiting Countermeasure Routing protocols Malware Internet IP networks Rate limiting Grippers Network worm
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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