An improved SMS based heterogeneous mobile botnet model

Botnets have become one of the most serious security threats to the traditional Internet world. But, with the undoubted successful development of cellular network and the powerful and pervasively used smart phones, we will raise the question that whether the mobile world will also suffer from the severe botnet threats like the traditional Internet world itself? Unfortunately, from the theoretical work of Traynor et al and Mulliner et al and the report of security companies, we can see that the new attack vector is quite real. In this paper we will describe a SMS based heterogeneous mobile botnet model, show how different SMS structures can be exploited for mobile botnets. The goal of our work is to help researchers to understand the mobile botnets, and thus promote the development of countermeasures. At last, we give the security and robustness evaluation of our model.