Lec 13: Malware II: Network Worms and Botnets

Question 1

What are network worms?

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Question 2

How do network worms work?

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Question 3

What is the history behnid worms?

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Question 4

What is the history of the Morris Internet Worm?

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Question 5

How does Morris Worm Transmission work?

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Question 6

How did Morris Worm Infection work?

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Question 7

What did the Morris Worm Stealth/DoS work?

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Question 8

What is the history behind the modern worm era?

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Question 9

What are the technical enablers for worms?

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Question 10

How do we think about worm outbreaks?

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Question 11

What are the two think about when dealing with worm outbreaks and the SI model?

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Question 12

What can be done against worm outbreaks?

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Question 13

What is software quality prevention?

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• against network worms

Question 14

What are wrappers?

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• network worm prevention technique

Question 15

What is Software Heterogeneity?

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• network worm prevention technique

Question 16

What is software updating prevention technique?

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• network worm prevention

Question 17

What is the known exploit blocking prevention technique?

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• network worm prevention

Question 18

What is hygiene enforcement?

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• network worm prevention technique

Question 19

What is network worm treatment? What are the two issues with it?

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Question 20

What are white worms?

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Question 21

What is network worm containment? What are the two types of containment?

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Question 22

What are the requirements for quarantining network worms? How can we define reactive defenses?

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Question 23

What makes worm containment difficult?

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Question 24

What is Slammer (2003)?

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• network worm

Question 25

Was Slammer really fast?

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Question 26

Network worm outbreak detection/monitoring. What are the two classes of monitors?

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Question 27

What are network telescopes?

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Question 28

Why do telescopes work?

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Question 29

What is Code Red's Growth vs it's patch rate?

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Question 30

What is the global animation of an outbreak?

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Question 31

What are the problems with telescopes?

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Question 32

What are the overall limitations of telescope, honey net, etc. monitoring?

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Question 33

How do you detect worms on your network?

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Question 34

What is scan detection?

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Question 35

What is signature inference?

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Question 36

What is the approach for signature inference?

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Question 37

What is content sifting?

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Question 38

What does the content sifting algorithm look like in a diagram?

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Question 39

What are the challenges to content shifting?

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Question 40

What is Earlybird?

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Question 41

What is the results of Earlybird?

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Question 42

What is UCSD's relationship with content sifting technologies?

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Question 43

What are the limitations to content sifting?

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Question 44

What are distributed detection issues? What do we do about it?

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Question 45

So you've taken over 100,000 machines, now what?

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Question 46

What is a botnet?

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Question 47

What is the history of botnet?

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Question 48

What is the first major motivation of batnets?

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Question 49

How do botnets get created?

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Question 50

What is architecture of a botnet?

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Question 51

What is storm peer-to-peer botnet?

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- type of botnet architecture

Question 52

Wha is the Agobot?

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Question 53

What are some of the Agobot Commands?

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Question 54

How do bots build on one another?

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Question 55

How do you detect botnets?

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Question 56

How do you disrupt bots?

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Question 57

What is command and control disruption?

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Question 58

What gets in the way of cleaning bots?

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