The internet worm program: an analysis
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Code red worm propagation modeling and analysis
Proceedings of the 9th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Code-Red: a case study on the spread and victims of an internet worm
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet measurment
How to Own the Internet in Your Spare Time
Proceedings of the 11th USENIX Security Symposium
An Analysis of the Slapper Worm
IEEE Security and Privacy
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM workshop on Rapid malcode
Modeling the effects of timing parameters on virus propagation
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM workshop on Rapid malcode
Routing Worm: A Fast, Selective Attack Worm Based on IP Address Information
Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation
Modeling and Automated Containment of Worms
DSN '05 Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
A self-learning worm using importance scanning
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM workshop on Rapid malcode
Analyze the worm-based attack in large scale P2P networks
HASE'04 Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE international conference on High assurance systems engineering
On the impacts of join and leave on the propagation ratio of topology-aware active worms
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Security of information and networks
The probability model of peer-to-peer botnet propagation
ICA3PP'11 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Algorithms and architectures for parallel processing - Volume Part I
Adaptive resource management for P2P live streaming systems
Future Generation Computer Systems
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Propagation of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) worms in the Internet is posing a serious challenge to network security research because of P2P worms' increasing complexity and sophistication. Due to the complexity of the problem, no existing work has solved the problem of modeling the propagation of P2P worms, especially when quarantine of peers is enforced. This paper presents a study on modeling the propagation of P2P worms. It also presents our applications of the proposed approach in worm propagation research. Motivated by our aspiration to invent an easy-to-employ instrument for worm propagation research, the proposed approach models the propagation processes of P2P worms by difference equations of a logic matrix, which are essentially discrete-time deterministic propagation models of P2P worms. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first using a logic matrix in network security research in general and worm propagation modeling in particular. Our major contributions in this paper are firstly, we propose a novel logic matrix approach to modeling the propagation of P2P worms under three different conditions; secondly, we find the impacts of two different topologies on a P2P worm's attack performance; thirdly, we find the impacts of the network-related characteristics on a P2P worm's attack performance in structured P2P networks; and fourthly, we find the impacts of the two different quarantine tactics on the propagation characteristics of P2P worms in unstructured P2P networks. The approach's ease of employment, which is demonstrated by its applications in our simulation experiments, makes it an attractive instrument to conduct worm propagation research.