id
	12305
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/12305
Resource template
	Conference Paper
Resource class
	fabio:ConferencePaper
Title
	All Your iFRAMEs Point to Us
Creator
	Provos, Niels
	Mavrommatis, Panayiotis
	Rajab, Moheeb Abu
	Monrose, Fabian
Publisher
	CA
Date
	2008
Language
	eng
Abstract
	As the web continues to play an ever increasing role in information exchange, so too is it becoming the prevailing platform for infecting vulnerable hosts. In this paper, we provide a detailed study of the pervasiveness of so-called drive-by downloads on the Internet. Driveby downloads are caused by URLs that attempt to exploit their visitors and cause malware to be installed and run automatically. Over a period of 10 months we processed billions of URLs, and our results shows that a non-trivial amount, of over 3 million malicious URLs, initiate driveby downloads. An even more troubling finding is that approximately 1.3% of the incoming search queries to Google’s search engine returned at least one URL labeled as malicious in the results page. We also explore several aspects of the drive-by downloads problem. Specifically, we study the relationship between the user browsing habits and exposure to malware, the techniques used to lure the user into the malware distribution networks, and the different properties of these networks.
Is Part Of
	Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Security Symposium
Spatial Coverage
	San Jose
Cited by
	11049
Pages
	1-15
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/XJPRIRKU/item-list

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