Raspberry Pi Malware: An Analysis of Cyberattacks Towards IoT Devices

The growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) over the last five years has been sizeable. The scale of changes has ranged from connected domestic appliances to connected cities; the scope for IoT has expanded. Most of the major vendors; including Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, now offer various devices to control aspects of homes. The issues surrounding IoT devices include security, vendors have not considered security when creating the devices and most users do not consider security when connecting the devices to home networks. This research focuses on an example of malware that attacks Raspberry Pi devices on the internet. The paper discusses the severity of a large-scale attack performed on the Internet of Things (IoT). A honeypot set up to capture different forms of malware obtained multiple samples from several unrelated IP addresses without any regular pattern. This paper addresses an analysis of the malware and how it infects new devices across the internet. The results show that the misconfiguration of Pi based IoT devices can lead to exploitation very rapidly and that malware can spread easily across a network, to infect all devices on the network.