Microsoft Office Word 2003 or Malicious Bots

Microsoft Office Word 2003: Comprehensive Concepts and Techniques, CourseCa

Author: Gary B Shelly

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Malicious Bots: An Inside Look Into the Cyber-Criminal Underground of the Internet

Author: Ken Dunham

Originally designed to sabotage or annihilate websites, computerized "Bots" are increasingly used in mass spamming events, fraud, extortion, identity theft, and software theft. Once they are loose on the Internet there is no controlling the harm they can inflict. With more than 26 years of information security experience between them, Dunham and Melnick provide a much needed a resource for understanding the scope, sophistication, and criminal uses of bots and how to more proactively protect against them. They examine the top bot attacks against financial and government networks over the last four years and reveal the who, how, and why behind them.

Table of Contents:

Preface     ix
Acknowledgments and Permissions     xi
About the Authors     xiii
Introduction to Bots     1
Thr34t Security Krew and the TK Worm     7
The Investigation of the Thr34t Krew   Lance Mueller     9
First DYNDNS Account (BestIce)     12
Second DYNDNS Account (Phreeze)     16
Third DYNDNS Account (D00M)     19
Seth Fogie     21
Help with Additional Technical Details     23
A Trip Across the Pond     23
Sitexec     25
DiSice     26
XaNiTH     28
Sitexec     30
Second Search Warrant Sweep     30
Jadaka     30
Mr40     31
Thr34t Krew Investigation: Concluding Comments     31
Demonstration: How a Hacker Launches a Botnet Attack     33
Step 1: Find, Modify, and Build a Bot     33
Step 2: Customize the Binary for Attack     35
Step 3: Launch the Attack     37
Step 4: Managing the Botherd     37
Step 5: Payloads, with an Emphasis on "Pay"     39
Introduction to the Use of Botnets in Criminal Activity     41
Timeline     41
Bots: A Pathway to Criminalization of the Information Age     44
Bots: The Integrated Business Solution for Criminals     45
"Botmasters" Who Were Caught     46
International Botnet Task Force Conferences     47
Operation "Bot Roast" I and II     47
How Big Do Botnets Need to Be to Pose a Serious Threat?     48
Peering Inside the IRC Botnet     50
Post-IRC-Based Bots     50
Botnet Attack Statistics     52
Botnet Features and the Criminal Enterprise     54
A Modular Approach to Botnets: A Major Aid to Criminals     54
Granular Spreading Capabilities     55
A "Service Bot"     55
The Degradation Feature of Botnets and Its Impact on Criminal Activity     56
Botherds Through the Eyes of a Criminal Mind     57
Criminal Vectors Utilizing Bots     57
Theft of Sensitive Information     57
DDoS Attacks and Extortion     58
Bot for Rent or Hire     60
Spam     63
Spam Bots and Criminalization     65
Pump-and-Dump Fraud     66
Covert Communications     67
Click Fraud and Affiliate Abuse     68
Adware Abuse      69
Taking Out the Competition     70
Botnets and the eCrime Cycle: The iSIGHT Partners' Approach     71
Technical Introduction to Bots     75
Common Ports     75
Command and Control Strategies     76
IRC C&C     76
Peer-to-Peer C&C     79
Web-Based C&C     80
Use of Encryption or Obfuscation     84
Types of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks     85
Introduction to Selected Bots     86
AgoBot     89
SDBot     91
PhatBot     96
The Infamous Hang-UP Team and IRC-Based Fraud Operations     98
Reptile     101
ZoTob     102
PBot     103
Tsunami     105
Kelvir     106
MetaFisher     107
Storm     113
Mitigation     123
Concluding Thoughts     125
USA Today: Botnets Used for Blackmail in Cyber Extortions     125
The Kraken Botnet     126
A Botnet That Targets .edu and .mil Servers     126
"Poisoning" the Storm Botnet     126
The Battle Is Joined!     127
The "Cyber Parasites" of the Internet     127
On the Edge of a Precipice     128
Glossary     131
Bibliography     135
Index     145