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Session 1341: Case Studies – Network Security

Session 1341: Case Studies – Network Security. Research & Development. Moderator: Bryan Cline OPNET Technologies, Inc. Network Intrusion Simulation Using OPNET. Shabana Razak, Mian Zhou, Sheau-Dong Lang *. University of Central Florida and National Center for Forensic Science *.

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Session 1341: Case Studies – Network Security

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  1. Session 1341: Case Studies – Network Security Research & Development Moderator: Bryan Cline OPNET Technologies, Inc.

  2. Network Intrusion Simulation Using OPNET Shabana Razak, Mian Zhou, Sheau-Dong Lang* University of Central Florida and National Center for Forensic Science*

  3. Simulation of Network Intrusion • Identify intrusion activities • Evaluate effectiveness of IDS (Intrusion Detection System) • Analyze network performance degradation due to IDS overhead • Study issues related to simulation efficiency

  4. Our Approach to Intrusion Simulation • Use MIT/Lincoln Lab’s TCPDUMP files • pre-process data source to extract packet inter-arrival times, duration of source data, a list of IP addresses • Build a network model corresponding to the extracted IP addresses, and a firewall node • Use OPNET to simulate source data, including intrusion detection using the firewall

  5. Example: Simulation of DOSNuke Attack • It is a denial-of-service attack which sends Out-Of-Band data (MSG_OOB) to port 139 (NetBIOS), crashing a Windows NT system • The attack’s signature contains a NetBIOS handshake followed by NetBIOS packets with the “urg” flag set • The packet format of our OPNET simulation contains only the IP addresses, port numbers, and the flags

  6. DOSNuke Simulation: Network Model The network model contains 10 virtual PCs (PC0 is hacker, PC1 is victim), and a firewall that filters packets to/from the victim

  7. DOSNuke Simulation: Packet Generator The attribute panel of the packet generator, with scripted packet inter-arrival times calculated from pre-processing the source data Node structure of the packet generator

  8. DOSNuke Simulation: Statistics of packet rates at firewall Packet rates at the firewall that filters the DOSNuke attack packets, clearly showing initial and 3 later peaks

  9. Example: Simulation of ProcessTable Attack Number of distinct port connections directed at the victim, clearly showing rapid increases during 3 time intervals

  10. Efficiency of intrusion simulation using OPNET Simulation runs on a Pentium 4 PC, 1.5 GHz CPU and 256 MB RAM Simulation time for ProcessTable attack with the durations of data file ranging from 30 to 114 seconds, and a total of 5525 packets (approx. linear growth)

  11. Conclusion and Further Research • Our work demonstrated several applications of intrusion simulation using OPNET: • Detecting intrusions by displaying and identifying patterns of suspicious data packets  Analyzing network performance and the intrusion detection overhead  Evaluating the effectiveness of the IDS • Further challenges include improving simulation efficiency, pre-processing source data using filtering strategies

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