Thesis/Dissertation: Samuel Obuch: Detection of cryptominers and mining botnets
Bachelor's thesis
Detection of cryptominers and mining botnets
Abstract
Kryptomeny nedávno zaznamenali veľký nárast popularity, čo sa prejavilo aj v náraste počtu súvisiacich škodlivých aktivít. Cieľom tejto práce je preskúmať tieto aktivity a navrhnúť metódu ich detekcie založenú na ich sieťových charakteristikách, získaných zo sieťových tokov. Vyhodnotenie navrhnutej metódy proti referenčnej metóde založenej na blockliste ukázalo, že metóda má vysokú presnosť. Porovnanie …more
Abstract
Cryptocurrencies got very popular recently, and this popularity also resulted in an increase in related malicious activities. The goal of this thesis is to study these activities and to implement a method for their detection based on their network characteristics obtained from network flows. Evaluation of the method proposed in this thesis against a reference method based on a blocklist showed, that …more
Thesis description
The tasks of this thesis are the following:
- Study the current coin mining activities (intentional farming, mining scripts on websites, mining botnets, etc.).
- Describe the behavior of different mining protocols and their traffic characteristics.
- Propose a method to detect such activities using passive network monitoring with IPFIX technology.
- Test the method on data from Masaryk University network and evaluate its performance.
28/5/2019 15:23, RNDr. Martin Laštovička, Ph.D., UČO 395855
- Entered/Edited 24/6/2019 13:05, Alena Dvořáková
- Record made 2/5/2019 13:39, Jana Zemanová, UČO 9619
- Accessible from: 24/5/2019 10:11, Alena Dvořáková
- Thesis/dissertation received 24/5/2019 10:11, Alena Dvořáková
Consultant
CRUSOE OProj ÚVT MU
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