Bot Detection Based on Traffic Analysis

Recently, botnet becomes a social problem due to the expansion of bot infection. Ideally, all the vulnerable computers should be fortified to counteract laying malware. Accordingly, it is important to implement an information system which detects bot-infected computers and alerts them. In this paper, we focused on bots using IRC to communicate, and examined the behavior of such bots when they connected to an IRC server. We observed the actual traffic of some ports which were often used by IRC protocol. As a result, we confirmed that bots tried to reconnect to an IRC server at certain intervals when the server refused the connection from the bot. Moreover, we examined the distribution of the intervals and confirmed that the communication from other IP addresses showed similar behavior.