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Behind The Scene Look At How Botnet Services Operate & Are Sold On The Global Market
- By Grey McKenzie
- Published 03/11/2008
- Cyber Security Industry Watch , Cyber Hackers , Cyber Security Identity Theft Watch , Cyber Phishing Alerts
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variant called "double flux", Internet miscreants complement the service network used to host malicious web sites with a second service network that hosts DNS servers.
The operation of these service networks is described in available detail in the ensuing sections of this Advisory.Terminology
To describe this complicated, multi-faceted fast flux technique to the extent currently possible, SSAC begin by identifying some of the terms the Internet security community associates with fast flux hosting: bot.
A Trojan horse program that is used in a botnet.
Trojan horse programs are installed without notice or authorization on a computer via a spyware download or virus attached to an email message, and more commonly, through browser or other client-side exploits (e.g., compromised banner advertising).
Once the bot is able to execute, it establishes a back-channel to a control infrastructure setup by the attacker.botnet.
A botnet is a network of compromised third-party computers running software (ro)bots.
The traditional botnet design employed a centralized model, and all backchannels connected to an attacker's command-and-control center (C&C).
Recently, botnet operators have employed peer-to-peer models for back-channel operation to thwart detection of the C&C via traffic analysis. botnets are marketable commodities.
Criminal parties pay the “owner” of a botnet for command and control of his botnet and then use the network for any number of unauthorized or illegal activities.bot-herder.
The architect and perpetrator of the distributed attack that is used to create, maintain, and exploit a botnet for financial or other (political) gain.
Once a botnet is established, the bot-herder leases use of their botnet to a facilitate a Fast Flux service operator
Fast flux.
This phrase is used to represent the ability to quickly move the location of a web, email, DNS or generally any Internet or distributed service from one or more computers connected to the Internet to a different set of computers to delay or evade
detection.
Fast Flux facilities. In this paper, facilities refers to the software agents that have been installed without consent onto large numbers of computers across the Internet.
Fast Flux service network.
In this paper, a service network refers to a subset of bots that
the bot-herder assigns to a given Fast Flux service operator who in turn provides its customer with facilities for fast flux hosting or name service. Note that this service network is often times operated by a “middle man”, not by the customer themselves.
Anatomy of Fast Flux Hosting
The description that follows is representative of fast flux hosting. Other manifestations and variations are likely, and attackers may alter future fast flux hosting to evade
The operation of these service networks is described in available detail in the ensuing sections of this Advisory.Terminology
To describe this complicated, multi-faceted fast flux technique to the extent currently possible, SSAC begin by identifying some of the terms the Internet security community associates with fast flux hosting: bot.
A Trojan horse program that is used in a botnet.
Trojan horse programs are installed without notice or authorization on a computer via a spyware download or virus attached to an email message, and more commonly, through browser or other client-side exploits (e.g., compromised banner advertising).
Once the bot is able to execute, it establishes a back-channel to a control infrastructure setup by the attacker.botnet.
A botnet is a network of compromised third-party computers running software (ro)bots.
The traditional botnet design employed a centralized model, and all backchannels connected to an attacker's command-and-control center (C&C).
Recently, botnet operators have employed peer-to-peer models for back-channel operation to thwart detection of the C&C via traffic analysis. botnets are marketable commodities.
Criminal parties pay the “owner” of a botnet for command and control of his botnet and then use the network for any number of unauthorized or illegal activities.bot-herder.
The architect and perpetrator of the distributed attack that is used to create, maintain, and exploit a botnet for financial or other (political) gain.
Once a botnet is established, the bot-herder leases use of their botnet to a facilitate a Fast Flux service operator
Fast flux.
This phrase is used to represent the ability to quickly move the location of a web, email, DNS or generally any Internet or distributed service from one or more computers connected to the Internet to a different set of computers to delay or evade
detection.
Fast Flux facilities. In this paper, facilities refers to the software agents that have been installed without consent onto large numbers of computers across the Internet.
Fast Flux service network.
In this paper, a service network refers to a subset of bots that
the bot-herder assigns to a given Fast Flux service operator who in turn provides its customer with facilities for fast flux hosting or name service. Note that this service network is often times operated by a “middle man”, not by the customer themselves.
Anatomy of Fast Flux Hosting
The description that follows is representative of fast flux hosting. Other manifestations and variations are likely, and attackers may alter future fast flux hosting to evade