Tesis y Tesistas 2020 - Postgrado - Fac. de Informática - UNLP

MAESTRÍA
Cómputo de Altas
Prestaciones
Mg. María José Erquiaga
e-mail
mariajoseerquiaga@gmail.com
english
Advisor
Dr. Sebastián García
Codirector
Dr. Adrian Pousa
Thesis defense date
September 15, 2020
Voluntary or Involuntary Computing?
Analysis and comparison of highperformance
resources between a
malicious system and a standard one
SEDICI
http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/111218
Keywords: Botnets; HPC; Android; Seti@home; Geost; Threat Intelligence
Motivation
The motivation for writing this thesis is that there was
no study (until today) that studies botnets as highperformance
systems and on the use of computational
resources by botnets. The goal of this thesis is to
compare certain characteristics of HPC systems in
botnets and in standard HPC systems. To achieve this
goal, characteristics of HPC systems were selected,
then those characteristics were extracted from both
systems and compared for a further analysis.
Thesis contributions
This thesis makes two main contributions, one is to
provide the first scientific HPC features comparison
between botnets and standard systems. The second is
to provide a methodology for the extraction and analysis
of high-performance computing features in botnets.
Future Research Lines
As future work we aim, to study the human factor and
the motivation of the actors involved in malware
development. We also aim to study the same features
analyzed in this thesis to investigate the use of
computational resources by different types of botnets.
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