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A Mobile Botnet Model Based on P2P Grid

2017; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-319-65551-2_44

1865-0937

Marek Šimon, Ladislav Huraj, Marián Hosťovecký,

Smart Grid Security and Resilience

Along with the rise of mobile devices the threat of adopting the mobile devices for cyber-attacks has increased. The sheer number of smartphones would be more than a billion in the world. Such amount of devices has strong communication potential. Moreover, running of open operating systems such as Google Android on mobile devices results in including the mobile platform into botnet network and mobile devices begin to be more interesting for attackers. The question how the mobile devices can be dangerous for a particular network, especially DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks carried from mobile devices, is a great challenge to security for computer networks. This paper illustrates a testbed model based on a P2P grid in order to straightforward include mobile devices to testbed environment and to understand DDoS attack carried on mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets or other mobile personal computers. Testbed model based on P2P grid built on OurGrid environment creates a framework behaving as a hybrid botnet and is able to execute commands from a botmaster and consequently to test a real network system on mobile devices threats. The article presents a possibility how to use of mobile devices and their computational resources the P2P grid nodes for computational tasks, and it shows abilities of mobile devices for the real DDoS attack. For this purpose, we benchmarked the framework, performed a real DDoS attack on existing web server assisted by several mobile devices. Moreover, analysis of the results is provided.