An Adaptive Push-Styled Command and Control Mechanism in Mobile Botnets
The mobile botnet, developed from the traditional PC-based botnets, has become a practical underlying trend.In this paper, we design a mobile botnet, which exploits a novel com mand and control (C&C) strategy named Push-Styled C&C.It utilizes Google cloud messaging (GCM) service as the botnet channel.Compared with traditional botnet, Push-Styled C&C avoids direct communications between botmasters and bots, which makes mobile botnets more stealthy and resilient.Since mobile devices users are sensitive to battery power and traffic consump tion, Push-Styled botnet also applies adaptive network connection strategy to reduce traffic consumption and cost.To prove the effi cacy of our design, we implemented the prototype of Push-Style C&C in Android.The experiment results show that botnet traffic can be concealed in legal GCM traffic with low traffic cost.
mobile botnet push style Google cloud messaging (GCM) adaptive connection
CHEN Wei GONG Peihua YU Le YANG Geng
College of Computer,Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications,Nanjing 210023,Jiangsu,China
国内会议
秦皇岛
英文
427-434
2013-09-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）