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2 Related Work The field of the worm detection and anomaly based intrusion detection has been studied in a special way in the last seven years. Initiatives like the Internet Storm Behavioural Characterization for Network Anomaly Detection 25 Center [14], CAIDA [1] or DDoSVax [23] are good examples of it. These systems search for infection signals on large scale networks. These projects work with information volume extremely huge, which makes it difficult to carry out host level processing. Barford et al.
6667 3 ircu ??? traffic grouped at 135/TCP and 445/TCP and at last a small percent not so well known ports: 5226/TCP and 6667/TCP. This list of implied ports, as well as a possible concentration of traffic from a same source port would serve to make a basic characterization of this worm behaviour. These connections to no well characterized ports are specially interesting. If we make a query to know which hosts are behind these ports we will discover two outer machines. 16 port 6667/TCP are running two botnet command and control IRC servers.
This variety of examined population, especially concerning the students group, guarantees a good variety of different behaviours in the network. As we have explained before we have based our flow storage system in a relational database. There are some publications around this idea like the paper from Nickless et al. [20]. 1 slightly tuned to increase memory cache for keys. At present we are saving 24 hours of NetFlow Behavioural Characterization for Network Anomaly Detection 31 data, divided in 15 minutes blocks that are cyclical filled.
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