Conficker

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Conficker
Alias	Downup, Downadup, Kido
Group	Trojan
Parent
Sibling
Family
Relations	Variants: Sibling of: Parent of: Distribution of: Campaigns:
Target	Microsoft Windows
Origin
Distribution vector
UserAgent
CCProtocol	HTTP (Centralized), P2P (Decentralized)
Activity	2008 /
Status
Language
Programming language
Operation/Working group	Conficker working group

Features

• Domain generation algorithm

• Worm

Publications

	Author	Editor	Year
A Foray into Conficker’s Logic and Rendezvous Points		LEET'09 Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX conference on Large-scale exploits and emergent threats: botnets, spyware, worms, and more	2009
Domain generation algorithms (DGA) in stealthy malware	Gunter Ollmann	Damballa	2012
Encyclopedia entry: Win32/Conficker	Joshua Phillips Jireh Sanico Vincent Tiu Aaron Putnam	Microsoft Malware Protection Centre	2011
Malware pandemics	Philip Porras Hassen Saidi Vinod Yegneswaran	Office of Naval Research	2010
Measuring botnet populations	Jose Nazario	Arbor Sert	2012
Post-mortem of a zombie: Conficker cleanup after six years	Hadi Asghari Michael Ciere Michel J.G. van Eeten	24th USENIX Security Symposium	2015
SIRv12	Joe Faulhaber David Felstead Paul Henry Jeff Jones Jimmy Kuo Marc Lauricella Dave Probert Tim Rains Frank Simorjay Holly Stewart Matt Thomlinson Scott Wu Terry Zink Dennis Batchelder Shah Bawany Joe Blackbird Eve Blakemore Sarmad Fayyaz Nitin Kumar Goel Ken Malcolmson Nam Ng Mark Oram Daryl Pecelj	Microsoft	2012
SIRv12: the obstinacy of Conficker	Joe Blackbird	Microsoft Malware Protection Centre	2012
Zeroing in on malware propagation methods	Joe Faulhaber David Felstead Paul Henry Jeff Jones Ellen Cram Kowalczyk Jimmy Kuo John Lambert Marc Lauricella Aaron Margosis Michelle Meyer Anurag Pandit Anthony Penta Dave Probert Tim Rains Mark E. Russinovich Weijuan Shi Adam Shostack Frank Simorjay Hemanth Srinivasan Holly Stewart Matt Thomlinson Jeff Williams Scott Wu Terry Zink	Microsoft	2011