Understanding the Proxy Ecosystem: A Comparative Analysis of Residential and Open Proxies on the Internet
- 주제(키워드) Internet , IP networks , Servers , Privacy , Correlation , Blacklisting , Ecosystems , Residential proxy , open proxy , comparative analysis , geospatial analysis , blacklisting
- 주제(기타) Computer Science, Information Systems
- 주제(기타) Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
- 주제(기타) Telecommunications
- 설명문(일반) [Choi, Jinchun] Inha Univ, Joint PhD Program, Dept Comp Informat Sci, Incheon 22212, South Korea; [Abuhamad, Mohammed] Inha Univ, Informat Secur Res Lab ISRL, Incheon 22212, South Korea; [Choi, Jinchun; Abusnaina, Ahmed; Anwar, Afsah] Univ Cent Florida, Dept Comp Sci, Orlando, FL 32816 USA; [Abuhamad, Mohammed; Alshamrani, Sultan] Univ Cent Florida, Secur Analyt Res Lab SEAL, Orlando, FL 32816 USA; [Park, Jeman] Univ Cent Florida, Dept Comp Sci & Engn, Orlando, FL 32816 USA; [Nyang, Daehun] Ewha Womans Univ, Seoul 03760, South Korea
- 관리정보기술 faculty
- 등재 SCIE, SCOPUS
- OA유형 gold
- 발행기관 IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
- 발행년도 2020
- 세부유형 Article
- URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/ewha/000000174977
- 본문언어 영어
- Published As http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3000959
초록/요약
Proxy servers act as an intermediary and a gateway between users and other servers on the Internet, and have many beneficial applications targeting the privacy of users, including bypassing server-side blocking, regional restrictions, etc. Despite the beneficial applications of proxies, they are also used by adversaries to hide their identity and to launch many attacks. As such, many websites restrict access from proxies, resulting in blacklists to filter out those proxies and to aid in their blocking. In this work, we explore the ecosystem of proxies by understanding their affinities and distributions comparatively. We compare residential and open proxies in various ways, including country-level and city-level analyses to highlight their geospatial distributions, similarities, and differences against a large number of blacklists and categories therein, i.e., spam and maliciousness analysis, to understand their characteristics and attributes. We conclude that, while aiming to achieve the same goal, residential and open proxies still have distinct characteristics warranting considering them separately for the role they play in the larger Internet ecosystem. Moreover, we highlight the correlation of proxy locality distribution and five country-level characteristics, such as their Internet censorship, political stability, and Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
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