• 정보보호학회논문지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.43-53
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• 2007

인터넷에 대한 의존도가 증가하면서 인터넷 웜에 대한 연구의 필요성이 증가하게 되었다. 인터넷 웜을 연구하는 데 가장 많이 사용하는 방법 중의 하나는 시뮬레이션인데, 대규모 네트워크상에서 동작하는 웜을 시뮬레이션 하는 데에는 성능, 확장성 등의 문제가 발생한다. 이에 본 논문에서는 대규모 인터넷 웜, 특히 RCS(Random Constant Spreading) 특성을 갖는 웜을 시뮬레이션 할 때 발생하는 문제점을 줄여, 효율적인 시뮬레이션이 가능하도록 하는 hybrid 모델링 방법을 제안하였다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 hybrid모델은 epidemic모델과 유체 모델을 사용한 모델링 네트워크와 패킷 네트워크의 연동을 통하여 시뮬레이션을 수행하도록 하였으며, 이로 인하여 일반적인 모델링 기법의 장점인 빠른 수행 시간을 가짐과 동시에 패킷 네트워크를 이용하여 동적으로 인자값을 업데이트할 수 있게 되었다. 또한, 한 번의 시뮬레이션을 통해 모델링 네트워크로부터 거시적인 정보와 패킷 네트워크로부터 세부적인 정보를 모두 얻을 수 있다. 그리고 본 논문에서는 RCS 특성을 가지는 웜의 한 종류인 코드레드 웜에 대한 실험을 수행하여 hybrid 모델의 적합성을 보여주었다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.33-40
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• 2009

Ever since the network-based malicious code commonly known as a 'worm' surfaced in the early part of the 1980's, its prevalence has grown more and more. The RCS (Random Constant Spreading) worm has become a dominant, malicious virus in recent computer networking circles. The worm retards the availability of an overall network by exhausting resources such as CPU capacity, network peripherals and transfer bandwidth, causing damage to an uninfected system as well as an infected system. The generation and spreading cycle of these worms progress rapidly. The existing studies to counter malicious code have studied the Microscopic Model for detecting worm generation based on some specific pattern or sign of attack, thus preventing its spread by countering the worm directly on detection. However, due to zero-day threat actualization, rapid spreading of the RCS worm and reduction of survival time, securing a security model to ensure the survivability of the network became an urgent problem that the existing solution-oriented security measures did not address. This paper analyzes the recently studied efficient dynamic network. Essentially, this paper suggests a model that dynamically controls the RCS worm using the characteristics of Power-Law and depth distribution of the delivery node, which is commonly seen in preferential growth networks. Moreover, we suggest a model that dynamically controls the spread of the worm using information about the depth distribution of delivery. We also verified via simulation that the load for each node was minimized at an optimal depth to effectively restrain the spread of the worm.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.191-204
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• 2010

There is a well-defined propagation model, named the random constant spread (RCS) model, which explains worms that spread their clones with a random scanning strategy. This model uses the number of infected hosts in a domain as a factor in the worms' propagation. However, there are difficulties in explaining the characteristics of new Internet worms because they have several considerable new features: the denial of service by network saturation, the utilization of a faster scanning strategy, a smaller size in the worm's propagation packet, and to cause maximum damage before human-mediated responses are possible. Therefore, more effective factors are required instead of the number of infected hosts. In this paper, the network bandwidth usage rate is found to be an effective factor that explains the propagations of the new Internet worms with the random scanning strategy. The analysis and simulation results are presented using this factor. The simulation results show that the scan rate is more sensitive than the propagation packet for detecting worms' propagations.