A Survey of Botnet-Based DDoS Flooding Attacks of Application Layer

Abstract

A Botnet can be used to launch a cyber-attack, such as a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, against a target or to conduct a cyber-espionage campaign to steal sensitive information. This survey analyzes and compares the most important efforts carried out in an application-based detection area and this survey extended to cover the mitigation approaches for the Botnet-based DDoS flooding attacks. It accomplishes four tasks: first, an extensive illustration on Internet Security; second, an extensive comparison between representative detection mechanisms; third, the comparison between the mitigation mechanisms against Botnet-based DDoS flooding and fourth, the description of the most important problems and highlights in the area. We conclude that the area has achieved great advances so far, but there are still many open problems.