Thats a unique idea.You should consider the following idea to enhance your idea so that it would impact uniquely: Automatic protocol reverse-engineering is important for many security applications, including the analysis and defense against botnets. Understanding the command-and-control (C&C) protocol used by a botnet is crucial for anticipating its repertoire of nefarious activity and to enable active botnet infiltration. Frequently, security analysts need to rewrite messages sent and received by a bot in order to contain malicious activity and to provide the botmaster with an illusion of successful and unhampered operation. To enable such rewriting,  need detailed information about the intent and structure of the messages in  both directions  of the communication despite the fact that  generally only have access to the implementation of one endpoint, namely the bot binary. Current techniques cannot enable such rewriting. ,  propose techniques to extract the format of protocol messages  sent  by an application that implements a protocol specification, and to infer the field semantics for messages both  sent  and  received  by the application. Our techniques enable applications such as rewriting the C&C messages for active botnet infiltration.  implement our techniques into Dispatcher, a tool to extract the message format and field semantics of both received and sent messages.  use Dispatcher to analyze MegaD, a prevalent spam botnet employing a hitherto undocumented C&C protocol, and show that the protocol information extracted by Dispatcher can be used to rewrite the C&C messages.
['Juan Caballero', 'Pongsin Poosankam', 'Christian Kreibich', 'Dawn Xiaodong Song']
I am writing a research paper on a idea Dispatcher: enabling active botnet infiltration using automatic protocol reverse-engineering
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