Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
The Impact of DoS Attacks onResource-constrained IoT Devices:A Study on the Mirai Attack |
| Authors: |
Tushir, Bhagyashri, Sehgal, Hetesh, Nair, Rohan, Dezfouli, Behnam, Liu, Yuhong |
| Publication Year: |
2021 |
| Collection: |
Computer Science |
| Subject Terms: |
Computer Science - Cryptography and Security |
| More Details: |
Mirai is a type of malware that creates a botnet of internet-connected devices, which can later be used to infect other devices or servers. This paper aims to analyze and explain the Mirai code and create a low-cost simulation environment to aid in the dynamic analysis of Mirai. Further, we perform controlled Denial-of-Service attacks while measuring resource consumption on resource-constrained compromised and victim Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, such as energy consumption, CPU utilization, memory utilization, Ethernet input/output performance, and Secure Digital card usage. The experimental setup shows that when a compromised device sends a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) flood, it consumes 38.44% more energy than its regular usage. In the case of Secure Digital usage, the victim, when flooded with Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) messages, uses 64.6% more storage for reading and 55.45% more for writing. The significant extra resource consumption caused by Mirai attacks on resource-constrained IoT devices can severely threaten such devices' wide adoption and raises great challenges for the security designs in the resource-constrained IoT environment.
Comment: Ubi-Media Computing 2018 |
| Document Type: |
Working Paper |
| Access URL: |
http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.09041 |
| Accession Number: |
edsarx.2104.09041 |
| Database: |
arXiv |
