# The Impact of DoS Attacks onResource-constrained IoT Devices:A Study on the Mirai Attack

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.09041 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.09041/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 19 Apr 2021.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Online Self-Supervised Deep Learning for Intrusion Detection Systems](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.13030/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Mirai is a type of malware that creates a botnet of internet-connected devices, which can later be used to infect other devices or servers. This paper aims to analyze and explain the Mirai code and create a low-cost simulation environment to aid in the dynamic analysis of Mirai. Further, we perform controlled Denial-of-Service attacks while measuring resource consumption on resource-constrained compromised and victim Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, such as energy consumption, CPU utilization, memory utilization, Ethernet input/output performance, and Secure Digital card usage. The experimental setup shows that when a compromised device sends a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) flood, it consumes 38.44% more energy than its regular usage. In the case of Secure Digital usage, the victim, when flooded with Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) messages, uses 64.6% more storage for reading and 55.45% more for writing. The significant extra resource consumption caused by Mirai attacks on resource-constrained IoT devices can severely threaten such devices' wide adoption and raises great challenges for the security designs in the resource-constrained IoT environment.