Research On P2P Botnets Technology

"Botnet" is a network of computers that are compromised and controlled by an attacker. Attackers are exploited by botnet for initiating various malicious activities,such as email spam, distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks, phishing, password cracking and key logging. Botnets have recently been identified as one of the most important threats to the security of the Internet.Most current botnets have centralized command and control (C&C) architecture. However, peer-to-peer (P2P) structured botnets have gradually emerged as a new advanced form of botnets. Without C&C servers, P2P botnets are more resilient to defense countermeasures than traditional centralized botnets.In this paper, described the technology hazards trends of the Botnet, and its working principle and its detection, Analyzed the characteristics of Botnet based on P2P technology. Proposed an improved model of hybrid P2P network, discussed defense and detection programs of this new type of P2P Botnet.