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Tese de Doutorado de Lucas Fernando Müller


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Aluno: Lucas Fernando Müller
Orientador: Prof. Dr. Marinho Pilla Barcellos

Título: Improving the Accuracy of Spoofed Traffic Inference in Inter-Domain Traffic
Linha de Pesquisa: Redes de Computadores

Data: 17/02/2020
Horário: 15h
Local: Sala 218 (sala de videoconferência) do Prédio 43412 do Instituto de Informática da UFRGS.

Banca Examinadora:
– Prof. Dr. Renata Cruz Teixeira (INRIA Paris – por videoconferência)
– Prof. Dr. Artur Ziviani (LNCC – por videoconferência)
– Prof. Dr. Jeferson Campos Nobre (UFRGS)

Presidente da Banca: Prof. Dr. Marinho Pilla Barcellos

Abstract: Ascertaining that a network will forward spoofed traffic usually requires an active probing vantage point in that network, effectively preventing a comprehensive view of this global Internet vulnerability. We argue that broader visibility into the spoofing problem may lie in the capability to infer lack of Source Address Validation (SAV) compliance from large, heavily aggregated Internet traffic data, such as traffic observable at Internet Exchange Points (IXPs). The key idea is to use IXPs as observatories to detect spoofed packets, by leveraging Autonomous System (AS) topology knowledge extracted from Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) data to infer which source addresses should legitimately appear across parts of the IXP switch fabric. In this thesis, we demonstrate that the existing literature does not capture several fundamental challenges to this approach, including noise in BGP data sources, heuristic AS relationship inference, and idiosyncrasies in IXP interconnectivity fabrics. We propose Spoofer-IX, a novel methodology to navigate these challenges, leveraging Customer Cone semantics of AS relationships to guide precise classification of inter-domain traffic as In-cone, Out-of-cone (spoofed), Unverifiable, Bogon, and Unas- signed. We apply our methodology on extensive data analysis using real traffic data from two distinct IXPs in Brazil, a mid-size and a large-size infrastructure. In the mid-size IXP with more than 200 members, we find an upper bound volume of Out-of-cone traffic to be more than an order of magnitude less than the previous method inferred on the same data, revealing the practical importance of Customer Cone semantics in such analysis. We also found no significant improvement in deployment of SAV in networks using the mid-size IXP between 2017 and 2019. In hopes that our methods and tools generalize to use by other IXPs who want to avoid use of their infrastructure for launching spoofed-source DoS attacks, we explore the feasibility of scaling the system to larger and more diverse IXP infrastructures. To promote this goal, and broad replicability of our results, we make the source code of Spoofer-IX publicly available. This thesis illustrates the subtleties of scientific assessments of operational Internet infrastructure, and the need for a community focus on reproducing and repeating previous methods.

Keywords: Stability, spoofing, security, Customer Cone, inter-domain routing.

Caren Joseana Henz Moura
Divulgação PPGC