Evaluation of Mauritian IPv4 address space within Internet Background Radiation data

Abstract

This paper explores the contribution made by IPv4 address space attributable to Mauritian  organisations to the Internet Background Radiation  (IBR). Data spanning a duration of 19 months  starting in January 2021, from six discrete  network telescopes is used as the basis for the  analysis. A decomposition of the traffic is presented  considering top origins by both ASN and netblock.  An analysis is presented on the top 10 targeted  TCP ports across the data. Alongside this an  exploration is done into some of the more unusual  probing for known vulnerable services that was  observed. A determination of the reflected traffic  and consideration of identified anomalies concludes  the analysis. Mauritian IP address space is found  to be relatively well regulated, and not have a large  population of contributors to IBR either via active  scanning or via reflected traffic. 

https://doi.org/10.59200/ICONIC.2022.011