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Correlating file-based malware graphs against the empirical ground truth of DNS graphs
Tekijät: Jukka Ruohonen, Sanja Scepanovic, Sami Hyrynsalmi, Igor Mishkovski, Tuomas Aura, Ville Leppänen
Toimittaja: Rami Bahsoon, Rainer Weinreich
Konferenssin vakiintunut nimi: European Conference on Software Architecture Workshops
Kustannuspaikka: New York
Julkaisuvuosi: 2016
Kokoomateoksen nimi: ECSAW '16 Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Software Architecture Workshops
Sivujen määrä: 6
ISBN: 978-1-4503-4781-5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2993412.2993414
Verkko-osoite: 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.