The New Architecture of P2P-Botnet

A widespread botnet is often used to carry cyber attacks, which results in serious threats to networks and properties. The application of combining botnets and P2P technology is powerful but complicated. This paper shows the differences of control mechanisms, running functions and working performance between central-controlled botnets and P2P-conctrolled botnets by analysis of several famous botnets. Futher more, This paper also reseaches on Command-and- Control (C&C) mechanism which works as the core component of botnets' architecture, giving out the definition and evaluation parameters of this mechanism, finally proposing a new architecture. It is useful to finding vulnerabilities of P2P botnets and guiding defenders to design effective detection and defending methods.