Proposal / Submission Type

Peer Reviewed Paper

Location

Henderson Welcome Center

Start Date

15-5-2017 10:00 AM

Abstract

This paper presents a case study that occurred while observing peer-to-peer network communications on a botnet monitoring station and shares how tools were developed to discover what ultimately was identified as Mirai and many related IoT DDOS Botnets. The paper explains how researchers developed a customized protocol dissector in Wireshark using the Lua coding language, and how this enabled them to quickly identify new DDOS variants over a five month period of study.

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May 15th, 10:00 AM

An Accidental Discovery of IoT Botnets and a Method for Investigating Them With a Custom Lua Dissector

Henderson Welcome Center

This paper presents a case study that occurred while observing peer-to-peer network communications on a botnet monitoring station and shares how tools were developed to discover what ultimately was identified as Mirai and many related IoT DDOS Botnets. The paper explains how researchers developed a customized protocol dissector in Wireshark using the Lua coding language, and how this enabled them to quickly identify new DDOS variants over a five month period of study.