All Your iFRAMEs Point to Us

As the web continues to play an ever increasing role in information exchange, so too is it becoming the prevailing platform for infecting vulnerable hosts. In this paper, we provide a detailed study of the pervasiveness of so-called drive-by downloads on the Internet. Driveby downloads are caused by URLs that attempt to exploit their visitors and cause malware to be installed and run automatically. Over a period of 10 months we processed billions of URLs, and our results shows that a non-trivial amount, of over 3 million malicious URLs, initiate driveby downloads. An even more troubling finding is that

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: USS
• Authors: Niels Provos, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Moheeb Abu Rajab, Fabian Monrose
• Keywords: Driveby Downloads, Operating System, So-called Drive-by Downloads, USS 2008, Vulnerable Hosts