Correlating file-based malware graphs against the empirical ground truth of DNS graphs




Jukka Ruohonen, Sanja Scepanovic, Sami Hyrynsalmi, Igor Mishkovski, Tuomas Aura, Ville Leppänen

Rami Bahsoon, Rainer Weinreich

European Conference on Software Architecture Workshops

New York

2016

ECSAW '16 Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Software Architecture Workshops

6

978-1-4503-4781-5

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1145/2993412.2993414

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2993414



This exploratory empirical paper investigates whether the sharing of unique malware files between domains is empirically associated with the sharing of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and the sharing of normal, non-malware files. By utilizing a graph theoretical approach with a web crawling dataset from F-Secure, the paper finds no robust statistical associations, however. Unlike what might be expected from the still continuing popularity of shared hosting services, the sharing of IP addresses through the domain name system (DNS) seems to neither increase nor decrease the sharing of malware files. In addition to these exploratory empirical results, the paper contributes to the field of DNS mining by elaborating graph theoretical representations that are applicable for analyzing different network forensics problems.



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