Storm

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Storm
Alias	Nuwar, Peacomm, Zhelatin, Tibs
Group	Spamming, DDoSing
Parent
Sibling
Family
Relations	Variants: Sibling of: Parent of: Distribution of: Campaigns:
Target	Microsoft Windows
Origin
Distribution vector
UserAgent
CCProtocol	Overnet P2P (Decentralized)
Activity	2007 / 2008
Status
Language
Programming language
Operation/Working group

Introduction

Peacomm is the name sometimes given to the decentralized variant of Storm.

Features

• Template-based spam

• DDoS

• Server-side polymorphism

Publications

	Author	Editor	Year
A case study on Storm worm	Thorsten Holtz Moritz Steiner Frederic Dahl Ernst Biersack Felix Freiling	Usenix	2008
A quick update on spambot Kelihos		Abuse.ch	2012
Detection and classification of different botnet C&C channels	Gregory Fedynyshyn Mooi Choo Chuah Gang Tan	Lehigh University. Bethlehem	2009
Kelihos: not alien resurrection, more attack of the clones	David Harley	ESET	2012
Measuring and detecting Fast-Flux service networks	Thorsten Holz Christian Gorecki Konrad Rieck Felix C. Freiling	University of Mannheim & Fraunhofer FIRST	2008
Overcoming reputation and proof-of-work systems in botnets	Andrew White Alan Tickle Andrew Clark	IEEE	2010
The Sality botnet	Nicolas Falliere	Symantec	2010
The world's biggest botnets	Kelly Jackson Higgins	Darkreading	2007
Top spam botnets exposed	Joe Stewart	DELL SecureWorks	2008