An automated worm containment scheme

  • Authors:
  • Lipeng Song;Zhen Jin

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Electronic and Computer Science and Technology, North University of China, Taiyuan, China;School of Science, North University of China, Taiyuan, China

  • Venue:
  • WISM'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Web information systems and mining
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

How to detect and alleviate intelligent worms with the characteristic of both slow scanning rate and high vulnerability density? Here, we present a scheme to solve the problem. Different from previous schemes, which set a limit on instantaneous scanning rate against each host, the scheme considered in this paper counts the number of unique IP addresses contacted by all hosts of a subnet over a period and sets a threshold to determine whether the subnet is suspicious. Specially, we consider the similarity of information required by users belonging to the same subnet. The result shows that our scheme is effective against slow scanning worms and worms with high vulnerability density.