A Mobile Botnet Model Based on Android System

The rapid development of mobile Internet provides conditions for traditional botnets to spread to mobile Internet. Combined with the development tendency of mobile botnet, this paper presents an Android-based mobile botnet model from the perspective of an attacker. In this model, we adopt the social engineering means as the main route of propagation of bots and build a C&C (Command and Control) Channel based on SMS-HTTP protocol and a centralized-structured topology. In addition, we design an intelligent bot model to improve the robustness of the whole botnet and implement it on Android System. In the end we discuss the corresponding defense against the botnet.