CloudBot: Advanced mobile botnets using ubiquitous cloud technologies |
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| Affiliation: | 1. National Engineering Research Center for Communication and Network Technology, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China;2. Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China;3. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Shenzhen Research Institute, China;4. College of Engineering, Shantou University, China;1. Department of Computer & Information Science, University of Konstanz, Germany;2. School of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Adelaide and ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers, Australia;3. Department of Computer Science, COMSATS Institute Of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan;4. Department of Computer Science, The University of Poonch, Rawlakot, Azad Jammu and Kashmir;5. Department of Computer Science, Brown University, USA;6. National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan;1. School of Computer Science and Technology/Suzhou Institute for Advanced Study, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, PR China;2. School of Computer and Software, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, PR China;1. WINCORE Laboratory in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson University, Ontario, Canada;2. COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Campus, Wah Cantt, Pakistan;1. University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China;2. Department of Electrical and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China;3. Department of Software Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China;4. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China;5. Department of Mathematics and Information Technology, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;6. Department of Ophthalmology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People’s Hospital, Shanghai 200233, China;1. College of Information and Control Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao, PR China;2. School of Computer, Wuhan University, Wuhan, PR China;3. School of Information Science and Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Rizhao, PR China;4. College of Computer and Communication Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao, PR China;1. Ibaraki University, 4-12-1 Nakanarusawa-cho, Hitachi-shi, Ibaraki, Japan;2. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 2-4-7 Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan |
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| Abstract: | The mobile botnet is a collection of compromised mobile devices that can remotely receive commands from the botmaster. Exploiting unique features of mobile networks and smartphones, mobile botnets pose a severe threat to mobile users, because smartphones have become an indispensable part of our daily lives and carried a lot of private information. With the development of cloud computing technologies, botmaster can utilize ubiquitous cloud technologies to construct robust and scalable C&C (command and control) channel for mobile botnet. In this paper, we propose Cloudbot, a novel mobile botnet, which outperforms existing mobile botnets in terms of robustness, controllability, scalability, and stealthiness. Although the basic idea of using cloud technologies seems straightforward, we explore the design space of exploiting such services and tackle several challenging issues to overcome the limitations of existing mobile botnets. We have implemented CloudBot by exploiting popular push services and cloud storage services, and evaluated it through extensive experiments. The results demonstrate not only the feasibility of CloudBot but also its advantages, such as stealthiness, robustness, and performance. |
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| Keywords: | Mobile botnet Ubiquitous computing Cloud Command and control |
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