Improve the influence of Sybil nodes in P2P botnets

Sybil attack is useful for mitigating P2P botnets, and the effect depends mainly on influence of Sybil nodes. However, how to improve influence of Sybil nodes is still a problem rarely studied. Taking Kademlia based botnets as the research object, we proposed a method to improve influence of Sybil nodes in P2P botnets. We constructed a testing system based on Planetlab and KAD network, and conducted tests through the Internet. Results of our experiments show that this method can obviously enhance the influence of Sybil nodes. For defenders that study how to mitigate P2P botnets, this method may give helpful guidance.