Network Application Technology with High-Fidelity Modeling of Worm Containment with Benign Worms

Abstract

Worm infection is a critical problem for network application technology and security. In order to decrease the destruction of worm to network application technology, a worm containment method using benign worms was proposed, and an approach of high-fidelity modeling on packet-level of worm propagation and containment with benign worms was designed. The experiment results show that benign worms can contain the infection of malicious worms effectively, and the initial locality of worm, the delay time between the start time of benign worm and malicious worm, background traffic of the network will affect the propagation and containment of worms.