An Evaluation Model of Botnet Based on Peer to Peer

Abstract

We propose a evaluation model of botnet based on peer to peer. We propose key metrics to measure their activities(e.g, Stealthy, Effectiveness, Efficiency and Robustness). Using these performance metrics, we can study p2p botnet in a systematic way, and more convenient to find the method to defense botnet. In particular, our models show that the important relationship between degree and these metrics in p2p botnet. Our experiments prove that, the degree of nodes play an important role in evaluating robust of botnet, at the same time, the differences of node degree also an important metric in our evaluation system. We evaluate some botnet using simulation and demonstrate the utility of our proposed metrics. Our analysis show how botnet can be evaluated according to structure and communication using our proposed metrics.