Malware in IEEE 802.11 wireless networks

Authors:
Brett Stone-Gross;Christo Wilson;Kevin Almeroth;Elizabeth Belding;Heather Zheng;Konstantina Papagiannaki
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara;Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara;Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara;Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara;Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara;Intel Research, Pittsburgh, PA
Venue:
PAM'08 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Passive and active network measurement
Year:
2008

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Abstract

Malicious software (malware) is one of the largest threats facing the Internet today. In recent years, malware has proliferated into wireless LANs as these networks have grown in popularity and prevalence. Yet the actual effects of malware-related network traffic in open wireless networks has never been examined. In this paper, we provide the first study to quantify the characteristics of malware on wireless LANs. We use data collected from the large wireless LAN deployment at the 67th IETF meeting in San Diego, California as a case study. The measurements in this paper demonstrate that even a single infected host can have a dramatic impact on the performance of a wireless network.