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D-SCAP: DDoS Attack Traffic Generation Using Scapy Framework

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Advances in Big Data and Cloud Computing

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Bots are harmful processes controlled by a Command and Control (C&C) infrastructure. A group of bots is known as botnet to launch different network attacks. One of the most prominent network attacks is Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. Bots are the main source for performing the harmful DDoS attacks. In this paper, we introduce a D-SCAP (DDoS Scapy framework based) bot to generate high volumes of DDoS attack traffic. The D-SCAP bot generates and sends continuous network packets to the victim machine based on the commands received from the C&C server. The DDoS attack traffic can be generated for cloud environment. The D-SCAP bot and the C&C server are developed using Python language and Scapy framework. The D-SCAP bot is compared with the existing well-known DDoS bots.

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  1. TIFAC-CORE in Cyber Security, Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, India

    Guntupalli Manoj Kumar & A. R. Vasudevan

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  1. Department of Computer Sciences Technology, Karunya Institute of Technology & Sciences, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

    J. Dinesh Peter

  2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA

    Amir H. Alavi

  3. School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Bahman Javadi

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Manoj Kumar, G., Vasudevan, A.R. (2019). D-SCAP: DDoS Attack Traffic Generation Using Scapy Framework. In: Peter, J., Alavi, A., Javadi, B. (eds) Advances in Big Data and Cloud Computing. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 750. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1882-5_19

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