Teamwork of hackers-agents: Modeling and simulation of coordinated distributed attacks on computer networks

Abstract

The paper considers an approach to the agents' teamwork implementation. It is described on an example of simulation of the coordinated distributed attacks on computer networks fulfilled by a group of hackers-agents. The approach is based on main positions of the "joint intentions" theory and the "common plans" theory. The offered technology of creation of the agents' team includes the following stages: (1) formation of the subject domain ontology; (2) determination of the agents' team structure and mechanisms of their interaction and coordination; (3) specifications of the agents' actions plans as a hierarchy of attribute stochastic formal grammars; (4) assignment of roles and allocation of plans between the agents; (5) state-machine based interpretation of the teamwork. The stages of ontology creation, agents' plans specification and state-machine based interpretation of attack generation are considered. The Attack Simulator software prototype and its evaluation results are described.