Poster: Mongoose, A Novel Lightweight Cross- Platform Botnet Over TOR

“Botnets” consist of a network compromised machines controlled by an attacker (“botmaster”). Traditionally botnets have been integrated with computers, and have been the primary cause of many malicious Internet attacks. However, with emerging technologies such as tablets, cellphones, and other mobile devices; have presented new challenges in simulating what a modern botnet could look like, and how effective they can be executed with the limited resources provided by such technologies. With this poster presentation, we present a lightweight crossplatform (mobile, tablet, and computer) botnet that takes advantage of the TOR network. Compared to most traditional botnets, the proposed botnet allows the bots to phase in and out of networks due to their mobile nature, encrypted communications between bot and master, to use user agents to hide control traffic dispersion over the TOR network, with emphasis on a minimal deployment time and resource usage.