DR-SNBot: A Social Network-Based Botnet with Strong Destroy-Resistance

Social network-based botnets have become an important research direction of botnets. To avoid the single-point failure of existing centralized botnets, we propose a Social Network-based Botnet with strong Destroy-Resistance (DR-SNBot). By enhancing the security of the Command and Control (C&C) channel and introducing a divide-and-conquer and automatic reconstruction mechanism, we greatly improve the destroy-resistance of DR-SNBot. Moreover, we design the pseudo code for nickname generation algorithm, botmaster and bot respectively. Then, we construct the DR-SNBot via sin a blog and make simulated experiments to evaluate it. Furthermore, we make comparisons of controllability between botnets Mrrbot and DR-SNBot. The experimental results indicate that DRSNBot is more resilient. It is not only available in real-world environment, but also resistant enough to varying degrees of C&C-server removals in simulated environment.