• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.1087-1097
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• 2017

As the penetration rate of smartphones increases, the number of malicious codes targeting smartphones is increasing. I 360 Security 's smartphone malware statistics show that malicious code increased 437 percent in the first quarter of 2016 compared to the fourth quarter of 2015. In particular, malicious applications, which are the main means of distributing malicious code on smartphones, are aimed at leakage of user information, data destruction, and money withdrawal. Often, it is operated by an API, which is an interface that allows you to control the functions provided by the operating system or programming language. In this paper, we propose a mechanism to detect malicious application based on the similarity of API pattern in normal application and malicious application by learning pattern of API in application derived from static analysis. In addition, we show a technique for improving the detection rate and detection rate for each label derived by using the corresponding mechanism for the sample data. In particular, in the case of the proposed mechanism, it is possible to detect when the API pattern of the new malicious application is similar to the previously learned patterns at a certain level. Future researches of various features of the application and applying them to this mechanism are expected to be able to detect new malicious applications of anti-malware system.

• Review of KIISC
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.69-74
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• 2011

2011년 3월 4일 발생한 DDoS 공격은 악성코드 제작, 봇넷 구성 및 공격전개 방식에서 지난 2009년 발생한 7.7 DDoS 공격과 많은 유사점이 있다. 그러나 공격 전략과 공격 수행 방법 측면에서 좀 더 자세히 분석해보면 상호간의 유사점보다는 차이점이 더 많음을 알 수 있다. 7.7 DDoS 공격의 경우 공격자는 공격 전개를 위해 종 더 많은 시간을 투자하였으며 당시 국내 DDoS 방어수준에 대한 정확한 이해를 바탕으로 매우 효과적인 공격을 수행하였다. 그러나 3.4 DDoS 공격의 경우 공격자는 공격 망 구성을 위해 충분한 시간을 투자하지 않았으며, 비록 악성코드 전개에 있어 진일보한 모습을 보였으나 DDoS 방어수준에 대한 충분한 이해가 부족하였던 것으로 나다났다. 본 고에서는 2011년 3.4일 발생한 DDoS 공격을 네트워크 수준에서 양 공격의 유사점과 차이점을 분석 비교한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.549-555
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• 2019

According to a recent report by anti-virus vendors, the number of new and modified malware increased exponentially. Therefore, malware analysis research using machine learning has been actively researched in order to replace passive analysis method which has low analysis speed. However, when using supervised learning based machine learning, many studies use low-reliability malware family name provided by the antivirus vendor as the label. In order to solve the problem of low-reliability of malware label, this paper introduces a new labeling technique, "Unified Labeling", and further verifies the malicious behavior similarity through the feature analysis of the fine-grained method. To verify this study, various clustering algorithms were used and compared with existing labeling techniques.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.44 no.10
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• pp.1019-1025
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• 2017

Binary similarity analysis is used in vulnerability analysis, malicious code analysis, and plagiarism detection. Proving that a function is equal to a well-known safe functions of different versions through similarity analysis can help to improve the efficiency of the binary code analysis of malicious behavior as well as the efficiency of vulnerability analysis. However, few studies have been carried out on similarity analysis of the same function of different versions. In this paper, we analyze the similarity of function units through various methods based on extractable function information from binary code, and find a way to analyze efficiently with less time. In particular, we perform a comparative analysis of the different versions of the OpenSSL library to determine the way in which similar functions are detected even when the versions differ.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.49-61
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• 2017

Recently, convenience and usability are increasing with the development and deployment of various mobile applications on the Android platform. However, important information stored in the smartphone is leaked to the outside without knowing the user since the malicious mobile application is continuously increasing. A variety of mobile vaccines have been developed for the Android platform to detect malicious apps. Recently discovered server-based polymorphic(SSP) malicious mobile apps include obfuscation techniques. Therefore, it is not easy to detect existing mobile vaccines because some other form of malicious app is newly created by using SSP mechanism. In this paper, we analyze the correlation between the similarity of the method in the DEX file constituting the core malicious code and the permission similarity measure through APK de-compiling process for the SSP malicious app. According to the analysis results of DEX method similarity and permission similarity, we could extract the characteristics of SSP malicious apps and found the difference that can be distinguished from the normal app.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.373-380
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• 2014

Malicious codes uses generic unpacking technique to make it hard for analyzers to detect their programs. Recently their has been several researches about generic packet to prevent or detect these techniques. And they try to focus on the codes that repeats while generic packing is doing compression because generic packing technique executes after it is decompressed. And they try to focus on the codes that repeats while generic packing is doing compression because generic packing technique executes after it is decompressed. Therefore, this makes a interesting performance which shows a similar address value from the codes which are repeated several times what is different from the normal program codes. By dividing these codes into regularly separated areas we can find that the generic unpacking codes have a small entropy value compared to normal codes. Using this method, it is possible to identify any program if it is a generic unpacking code or not even though we do not know what kind of algorithm it uses. This paper suggests a way of disarming the generic codes by using the low value entropy value which comes out from the Opcode addresses when generic unpacking codes try to decompress.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.37-47
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• 2014

A Trojan malicious code is one of largest malicious codes and has been known as a virus that causes damage to a system as itself. However, it has been changed as a type that picks user information out stealthily through a backdoor method, and worms or viruses, which represent a characteristic of the Trojan malicious code, have recently been increased. Although several modeling methods for analyzing the diffusion characteristics of worms have proposed, it allows a macroscopic analysis only and shows limitations in estimating specific viruses and malicious codes. Thus, in this study an ESP model that can estimate future occurrences of Trojan malicious codes using the previous Trojan data is proposed. It is verified that the estimated value obtained using the proposed model is similar to the existing actual frequency in causes of the comparison between the obtained value and the result obtained by the Markov chain.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.31-43
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• 2014

Large number of Android mobile application has been developed and deployed through the Android open market by increasing android-based smart work device users recently. But, it has been discovered security vulnerabilities on malicious applications that are developed and deployed through the open market or 3rd party market. There are issues to leak user's personal and financial information in mobile devices to external server without the user's knowledge in most of malicious application inserted Trojan Horse forms of malicious code. Therefore, in order to minimize the damage caused by malignant constantly increasing malicious application, it is required a proactive detection mechanism development. In this paper, we analyzed the existing techniques' Pros and Cons to detect a malicious application and proposed discrimination and detection result using malicious application discrimination mechanism based on Jaccard similarity after collecting events occur in real-time execution on android-mobile devices.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2020.11a
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• pp.370-373
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• 2020

본 연구는 파일기반 악성파일 탐지시간을 줄이는 알고리즘 사용에 대해 기술하고 있다. 기존 탐지방식은 파일의 시그니처 값에 대한 유사도를 단순히 비교하는 것에만 그쳐 오탐율이 높거나 새롭게 생성되는 악성파일을 대응할 수 없는 제한점이 있다. 또한 정확도를 높이고자 딥 러닝을 통한 탐지방식이 제안되고 있으나 이 또한 동적분석으로 진행이 되기 때문에 시간이 오래 걸리는 제한이 있다. 그래서 우리는 이를 보완하는 VP Tree 탐지를 제안한다. 이 방법은 시그니처 값이 아닌 다차원에서의 해시 값의 데이터 위치를 기반으로 거리를 척도 한다. 유클리드 거리 법, 맨해튼 거리법이 사용되며 삼각부등식의 만족하는 기준으로 K-NN 이 생성이 되며, K-NN 을 이진 트리로 구성하여 인덱스를 통한 탐지를 진행하기에 기존 방법들을 보완할 수 있는 대안점이 될 수 있으며, 악성파일과 정상파일이 섞여 존재하는 총 3 만개의 데이터를 대상으로 악성파일 탐지 테스트를 진행하였으며 기본 방식에 비해 약 15~20%정도 속도가 단축된다는 것을 입증했다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.431-438
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• 2019

Fileless malware uses memory injection attacks to hide traces of payloads to perform malicious works. During the memory injection attack, an attack named "process hollowing" is a method of creating paused benign process like system processes. And then injecting a malicious payload into the benign process allows malicious behavior by pretending to be a normal process. In this paper, we propose a method to detect the memory injection regardless of whether or not the malicious action is actually performed when a process hollowing attack occurs. The replication process having same execution condition as the process of suspending the memory injection is executed, the data set belonging to each process virtual memory area is compared using the fuzzy hash, and the similarity is calculated.