• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
• /
• v.24 no.5
• /
• pp.839-850
• /
• 2014

As the social and financial damages caused by APT attack such as 3.20 cyber terror are increased, the technical solution against APT attack is required. It is, however, difficult to protect APT attack with existing security equipments because the attack use a zero-day malware persistingly. In this paper, we propose a host based anomaly detection method to overcome the limitation of the conventional signature-based intrusion detection system. First, we defined 39 features to identify between normal and abnormal behavior, and then collected 8.7 million feature data set that are occurred during running both malware and normal executable file. Further, each process is represented as 83-dimensional vector that profiles the frequency of appearance of features. the vector also includes the frequency of features generated in the child processes of each process. Therefore, it is possible to represent the whole behavior information of the process while the process is running. In the experimental results which is applying C4.5 decision tree algorithm, we have confirmed 2.0% and 5.8% for the false positive and the false negative, respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
• /
• v.27 no.3
• /
• pp.521-530
• /
• 2017

In this paper, we propose a protection solution against intelligent Ransomware attacks by encrypting not only source files but also backup files of external storage. The system is designed to automatically back up to the cloud server at the time of file creation to perform monitoring and blocking in case a specific process affects the original file. When client creates or saves a file, both process identifiers, parent process identifiers, and executable file hash values are compared and protected by the whitelist. The file format that is changed by another process is monitored and blocked to prevent from suspicious behavior. By applying the system proposed in this paper, it is possible to protect against damage caused by the modification or deletion of files by Ransomware.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
• /
• v.27 no.4
• /
• pp.785-802
• /
• 2017

As cyber threats using malicious code continue to increase, many security and vaccine companies are putting a lot of effort into analysis and detection of malicious codes. However, obfuscation techniques that make software analysis more difficult are applied to malicious codes, making it difficult to respond quickly to malicious codes. In particular, commercial obfuscation tools can quickly and easily generate new variants of malicious codes so that malicious code analysts can not respond to them. In order for analysts to quickly analyze the actual malicious behavior of the new variants, reverse obfuscation(=de-obfuscation) is needed to disable obfuscation. In this paper, general analysis methodology is proposed to de-obfuscate the software used by a commercial obfuscation tool, Themida. First, We describe operation principle of Themida by analyzing obfuscated executable file using Themida. Next, We extract original code and data information of executable from obfuscated executable using Pintool, DBI(Dynamic Binary Instrumentation) framework, and explain the implementation results of automated analysis tool which can deobfuscate to original executable using the extracted original code and data information. Finally, We evaluate the performance of our automated analysis tool by comparing the original executable with the de-obfuscated executable.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
• /
• v.27 no.6
• /
• pp.1271-1280
• /
• 2017

The android packer service using runtime execution compression technology switches to the original application using DexClassLoader. However the API interface of the DexClassLoader receives the path of the loaded DEX(Dalvik EXcutable) and the path of the compiled file. So there is a problem that the original file is exposed to the file system. Therefore, it is not safe to use the API for the packer service. In this paper, we solve this problem by changing the compile and load flow of the DexClassLoader API. Due to this changed execution flow, the complied file can be encrypted and stored in the file system or only in the memory and it can be decrypted or substituted at the time of subsequent loading to enable the original application conversion. we expected that the stability of the packer will increase beacause the proposed method does not expose the original file to the file system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
• /
• 2015.05a
• /
• pp.712-714
• /
• 2015

기존의 정보보호시스템들은 이미 확보된 시그니처 또는 이전에 분석된 정보를 기반으로 악성코드에 대응하고 있기 때문에, 시그니처가 알려지지 않은 악성코드 또는 변형된 악성코드의 경우, 탐지 및 식별에 한계를 지니고 있다. 본 연구는 이와 같은 문제를 해결하기 위해, 무결성을 검증하는 화이트리스트 기반의 응용프로그램 실행제어, 매체제어, 레지스트리 보호, 중요 파일 변경 방지, 프로세스 접근 역접속 IP/포트 통제 등의 기술을 복합적으로 적용하여, 악성코드의 침입뿐만 아니라 운영체제 및 응용프로그램 취약점을 기반으로 한 익스플로잇 공격으로부터 단말 PC를 더욱 확실하게 보호할 수 있도록 한 엔드포인트 응용프로그램 실행 통제 방안을 제시하였다. 본 연구의 결과는 프로토타입 형태로 개발하여 실 환경에서 통합테스트를 하여 공공기관, 금융기관, 통신사 등 실제 환경에 적합한 기술 및 기능임을 확인하였다. 본 연구를 통해, 실행 전 응용프로그램 무결성 검증과 실행 후 응용프로그램 실행 흐름 통제를 복합적으로 사용하여 알려진 악성코드 시그니처 정보에 의존한 기존 정보 보호 시스템과는 달리 알려지지 않은 악성코드까지 원천적으로 차단할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
• /
• v.25 no.3
• /
• pp.573-583
• /
• 2015

Amcache.hve file is a registry hive file regarding Program Compatibility Assistant, which stores the executed information of applications. With Amcache.hve file, We can know execution path, first executed time as well as deleted time. Since it checks both the first install time and deleted time, Amcache.hve file can be used to draw up the overall timeline of applications when used with the Prefetch files and Iconcache.db files. Amcache.hve file is also an important artifact to record the traces of anti-forensic programs, portable programs and external storage devices. This paper illustrates the features of Amcache.hve file and methods for utilization in digital forensics such as estimation of deleted time of applications.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
• /
• 2003.10a
• /
• pp.694-696
• /
• 2003

우리 생활은 컴퓨터와 인터넷의 발달로 많이 편리해 졌고 향상되었다. 그러나 예전엔 중요하게 생각하지 않았던 보안이라는 문제가 발생되었다. 그 해결책으로 많은 침입 탐지 시스템이 개발되었다. 본 논문에서는 주요 디렉토리 및 파일의 접근을 감시하며 중요한 정보가 외부로 유출되는 것을 막고 시스템을 보호하는 SIDPS를 제안한다. 이 시스템은 특정 패턴을 이용한 기존의 방식과는 다른“센서 파일/데이터”를 이용한다. 또한 LKM방식을 이용해 실행하도록 함으로서 손쉬운 설치 및 성능향상이 가능하도록 하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
• /
• v.32 no.2
• /
• pp.439-446
• /
• 2022

Document-type malicious codes are being actively distributed using attachments on websites or e-mails. Document-type malicious code is relatively easy to bypass security programs because the executable file is not executed directly. Therefore, document-type malicious code should be detected and prevented in advance. To detect document-type malicious code, we identified the document structure and selected keywords suspected of being malicious. We then created a dataset by converting the stream data in the document to ASCII code values. We specified the location of malicious keywords in the document stream data, and classified the stream as malicious by recognizing the adjacent information of the malicious keywords. As a result of detecting malicious codes by applying the CNN model, we derived accuracies of 0.97 and 0.92 in stream units and file units, respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
• /
• v.29 no.1
• /
• pp.45-55
• /
• 2019

DEX file and share objects (also known as the SO file) are important components that define the behaviors of an Android application. DEX file is implemented in Java code, whereas SO file under ELF file format is implemented in native code(C/C++). The two layers - Java and native can communicate with each other at runtime. Malicious applications have become more and more prevalent in mobile world, they are equipped with different evasion techniques to avoid being detected by anti-malware product. To avoid static analysis, some applications may perform malicious behavior in native code that is difficult to analyze. Existing researches fail to extract the call relationship which includes both Java code and native code, or can not analyze multi-DEX application. In this study, we design and implement a system that effectively extracts the call relationship between Java code and native code by analyzing DEX file and SO file of Android application.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
• /
• v.27 no.1
• /
• pp.67-77
• /
• 2017

A protector is a software for protecting core technologies by using compression and encryption. Nowadays malwares use the protector to conceal the malicious code from the analysis. For detailed analysis of packed program, unpacking the protector is a necessary procedure. Lately, most studies focused on finding OEP to unpack the program. However, in this case, it would be difficult to analyze the program because of the limits to remove protecting functions by finding OEP. In this paper, we studied about the protecting functions in the Themida and propose an unpacking technique for it.