A survey on malicious domains detection through DNS data analysis

Y Zhauniarovich, I Khalil, T Yu, M Dacier - ACM Computing Surveys …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Malicious domains are one of the major resources required for adversaries to run attacks
over the Internet. Due to the important role of the Domain Name System (DNS), extensive …

Encrypted DNS--> privacy? A traffic analysis perspective

S Siby, M Juarez, C Diaz, N Vallina-Rodriguez… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
Virtually every connection to an Internet service is preceded by a DNS lookup which is
performed without any traffic-level protection, thus enabling manipulation, redirection …

An end-to-end, large-scale measurement of dns-over-encryption: How far have we come?

C Lu, B Liu, Z Li, S Hao, H Duan, M Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
DNS packets are designed to travel in unencrypted form through the Internet based on its
initial standard. Recent discoveries show that real-world adversaries are actively exploiting …

Detection of malicious and low throughput data exfiltration over the DNS protocol

A Nadler, A Aminov, A Shabtai - Computers & Security, 2019 - Elsevier
In the presence of security countermeasures, a malware designed for data exfiltration must
use a covert channel to achieve its goal. The Domain Name System (DNS) protocol is a …

Padding ain't enough: Assessing the privacy guarantees of encrypted {DNS}

J Bushart, C Rossow - 10th USENIX Workshop on Free and Open …, 2020 - usenix.org
DNS over TLS (DoT) and DNS over HTTPS (DoH) encrypt DNS to guard user privacy by
hiding DNS resolutions from passive adversaries. Yet, past attacks have shown that …

Measuring DNS over TLS from the edge: adoption, reliability, and response times

TV Doan, I Tsareva, V Bajpai - … , PAM 2021, Virtual Event, March 29–April 1 …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The Domain Name System (DNS) is a cornerstone of communication on the
Internet. DNS over TLS (DoT) has been standardized in 2016 as an extension to the DNS …

Large scale measurement on the adoption of encrypted DNS

S García, K Hynek, D Vekshin, T Čejka… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Several encryption proposals for DNS have been presented since 2016, but their adoption
was not comprehensively studied yet. This research measured the current adoption of DoH …

On the impact of DNS over HTTPS paradigm on cyber systems

K Bumanglag, H Kettani - 2020 3rd International Conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Domain Name System (DNS) protocol has been in use for over thirty years. As the
primary method of resolving domain names to Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, it is a …

A comprehensive study of {DNS-over-HTTPS} downgrade attack

Q Huang, D Chang, Z Li - 10th USENIX Workshop on Free and Open …, 2020 - usenix.org
DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) is one major effort to protect DNS confidentiality and integrity,
which has been deployed by most of the popular browsers. However, we found this effort …

Evaluating public DNS services in the wake of increasing centralization of DNS

TV Doan, J Fries, V Bajpai - 2021 IFIP Networking Conference …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent studies have shown centralization in the Domain Name System (DNS) around public
DNS services, which are hosted on centrally managed infrastructure and advertise higher …