Internet Awareness 1. Malware Activities Website Security
56 Figure 2-2 Categories of the Incidents Handled by CNCERT in 2014
2.2. Internet Awareness 2.2.1. Malware Activities
In mainland China, IPs of the hosts infected with Trojan or Botnet reached about 11.1 million, which decreased by 2.3 compared with that in 2013. Because
CNCERT awareness systems are all located in mainland China, most IPs of Trojan or Botnet CC servers we found were identified in local networks. But we still saw
more than 42.3 thousand oversea CC servers which increased 25.3 from 2013. As shown in Figure 2-3, the US hosted the largest number of oversea CC servers’
IPs of Trojan or Botnet, followed by China HongKong and South Korea.
57 Figure 2-3 The distribution of overseas CC server’s IP addresses in 2014
By CNCERT’s Conficker Sinkhole, over 70.1 million hosts were suspected to be infected all over the world. And 8.9 million compromised hosts were located in
mainland China. As shown in Figure 2-4, mainland China 12.7 had the most infection, followed by India 7.9, and Brazil 6.9.
Figure 2-4 Worldwide Locations of the Computers Infected With Confickers in 2014 The malware-hosting websites is the jumping-off place for malware propagation.
The malware-hosting websites monitored by CNCERT in 2014 involved about 10.4 thousand domains, about 5.1 thousand IP addresses and about 115.1 thousand
Mainland China
12.7 India
7.9 Brazil
6.9 Russia
4.8 Vietnam
4.7 Italy
4.0 Mexico
3.3 Taiwan China
3.0 Argentina
2.9 Poland
2.5 Others
47.0
Worldwide Locations of the Computers Infected With Confickers in 2014
58 malware download links. Among the 10.4 thousand malicious domains, 92.9 of
their TLDs fell into the category of .com. Among the 5.1 thousand malicious IPs, 52.0 were located overseas. In 2014, CNCERT monitored about 15.9 million
malware spreading incidents. Figure 2-5 depicts the monthly statistics of malware spreading incidents in 2014, with the most rampant malware activity in May.
Figure 2-5 Monthly Statistics of Malware Spreading Incidents in 2014