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2008.09.10 2PM EST: Detecting and Tracking Trojan Horse Command-and-Control Servers
Information-stealing Trojan horse programs quietly infect systems, capture valuable information and transmit it back to a central command-and-control (C&C) server. While some attackers create custom Trojans for specific purposes, less-technical criminals use simple toolkits to create binaries for their own use. These toolkits generate slight variations on a single Trojan that report to different C&C servers but use the same mechanisms to capture and report data. It is possible to detect communications between Trojans and C&C servers using a network-based intrusion detection system (IDS). Deploying signatures that detect this traffic across many monitored networks allows analysts to determine which networks most commonly host C&C servers. Clusters of these servers can indicate the existence of a rogue network that specializes in serving malicious content. Locating these clusters can further increase the security of the network by monitoring any traffic destined to it, any of which is highly suspicious.

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