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Why leverage DNS to Detect and
Block Threats
Most attacker C2 is initiated via DNS lookups with some non-Web callbacks
15% NON-WEB C2 EXAMPLES 91%
Storm
Regin Bifrose Starsypound (APT1)
Pushdo/Cutwail DarkComet Gameover Zeus
of C2 bypasses Gh0st Lethic Hesperbot Longrun (APT1) of C2 can be blocked
Kelihos
Web ports 80 & 443 Seasalt (APT1) njRAT Tinba Citadel Biscuit (APT1) at the DNS layer
Zbot PoisonIvy
Glooxmail (APT1)
ZeroAccess Bouncer (APT1) Tinba
IP DNS IP
Lancope Research NON-WEB WEB Cisco AMP Threat
1
(now part of Cisco) Grid Research 2
millions of unique millions of unique
malware samples malware samples
from small office submitted to sandbox
LANs over 2 years over 6 months
NOTE1: 2013 Visual Investigations of Botnet Command and Control Behavior (link) NOTE2: 2018 Cisco Annual Security Report
• malware reached out to 150,000 C2 servers over 100,000 TCP/UDP ports • 9% had IP connections only and/or legitimate DNS requests
• malware often used 866 (TCP) & 1018 (UDP) “well known” ports, • 91% had IP connections, which were preceded by malicious DNS lookups
whereas legitimate traffic used 166 (TCP) & 19 (UDP) ports • very few had no IP connections
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