Behavioral Analysis on IPv4 Malware in both IPv4 and IPv6 Network Environment

• Main Authors: M., Zulkiflee, Abdollah, M. F., Othman, M. F. I., Abu, Nur Azman, Sahib, S.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/3813/1/Published_IJCSIC-Behavioral_Analysis_on_IPv4_Malware_in_both_IPv4_and_IPv6_Network_Environment.pdf; http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/3813/

Malware is become an epidemic in computer net-work nowadays. Malware attacks are a significant threat to networks. A conducted survey shows malware attacks may result a huge financial impact. This scenario has become worse when users are migrating to a new environment which is Internet Protocol Version 6. In this paper, a real Nimda worm was released on to further understand the worm beha-vior in real network traffic. A controlled environment of both IPv4 and IPv6 network were deployed as a testbed for this study. The result between these two scenarios will be analyzed and discussed further in term of the worm behavior. The ex-periment result shows that even IPv4 malware still can infect the IPv6 network environment without any modification. New detection techniques need to be proposed to remedy this prob-lem swiftly.