• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2024.01a
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• pp.105-108
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• 2024

랜섬웨어는 Ransom(몸값)과 Software(소프트웨어)의 합성어로, 데이터를 암호화하여 이를 인질로 금전을 요구하는 악성 프로그램이다. 블랙캣(BlackCat)과 같은 랜섬웨어가 스위스 항공 서비스 기업의 시스템을 마비시키는 공격을 시도하였으며, 이와 같은 랜섬웨어로 인한 피해는 지속적으로 발생하고 있다. 랜섬웨어에 의한 피해 감소 및 방지를 위하여, 다양한 랜섬웨어 탐지방안이 등장하였으며, 최근 행위 기반 침입탐지 시스템에 인공지능 기술을 결합하여 랜섬웨어를 탐지하는 방안이 연구되는 실정이다. 인공지능 기술은 딥러닝 및 하드웨어의 발전으로 데이터를 처리할 수 있는 범위가 넓어지면서, 다양한 분야와 접목하여 랜섬웨어 탐지를 위한 시스템에 적용되고 있지만, 국내는 국외만큼 활발하게 연구되지 않고 연구 개발 단계에 머물러 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 랜섬웨어에 감염된 파일에서 나타나는 특징 중 하나인 엔트로피를 데이터 분석에 활용함으로써, 랜섬웨어를 탐지하는 시스템을 제안하고 설계하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.2878-2884
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• 2015

Twitter, one of online social network services, is one of the most popular micro-blogs, which generates a large number of automated programs, known as tweet bots because of the open structure of Twitter. While these tweet bots are categorized to legitimate bots and malicious bots, it is important to detect tweet bots since malicious bots spread spam and malicious contents to human users. In the conventional work, temporal information was utilized for the classficiation of human and bot. In this paper, by utilizing geo-tagged tweets that provide high-precision location information of users, we first identify both Twitter users' exact location. Then, we propose a new tweet bot detection algorithm by using both an entropy based on geographic variable of each user and device information of each user. As a main result, the proposed algorithm shows superior bot detection and false alarm probabilities over the conventional result which only uses temporal information.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.178-192
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• 2006

The buffer overflow attack is the single most dominant and lethal form of security exploits as evidenced by recent worm outbreaks such as Code Red and SQL Stammer. In this paper, we propose microarchitectural techniques that can detect and recover from such malicious code attacks. The idea is that the buffer overflow attacks usually exhibit abnormal behaviors in the system. This kind of unusual signs can be easily detected by checking the safety of memory references at runtime, avoiding the potential data or control corruptions made by such attacks. Both the hardware cost and the performance penalty of enforcing the safety guards are negligible. In addition, we propose a more aggressive technique called corruption recovery buffer (CRB), which can further increase the level of security. Combined with the safety guards, the CRB can be used to save suspicious writes made by an attack and can restore the original architecture state before the attack. By performing detailed execution-driven simulations on the programs selected from SPEC CPU2000 benchmark, we evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed microarchitectural techniques. Experimental data shows that enforcing a single safety guard can reduce the number of system failures substantially by protecting the stack against return address corruptions made by the attacks. Furthermore, a small 1KB CRB can nullify additional data corruptions made by stack smashing attacks with only less than 2% performance penalty.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.90-99
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• 2003

Java applets are downloaded from web server through internet and executed in Java Virtual Machine of clients' browser. Before execution of java applets, JVM checks bytecode program with bytecode verifier and performs runtime tests with interpreter. However, these tests will not protect against undesirable runtime behavior of java applets, such as denial of service attack, email forging attack, URL spoofing attack, and annoying sound attack. In order to protect malicious applets, a technique used in this paper is java bytecode modification. This technique is used to restrict applet behavior or insert code appropriate to profiling or other monitoring efforts. Java byte modification is divided into two general forms, class-level modification involving subclassing non-final classes and method-level modification used when control over objects from final classes or interface. This paper showed that malicious applets are controlled by java bytecode modification using proxy server. This implementation does not require any changes in the web sever, JVM or web browser.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.31-40
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• 2014

In Korea, the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) has been introduced. For secure information transmission and identification, the electronic signature authorization system of a certificate-based is built, and then the service provide.The certificate is stored in location what users can easily access and copy. Thus, there is a risk that can be stolen by malware or web account hacking. In addition, private key passwords can be exposed by the logging tool, after keyboard security features are disabled. Each of these security weaknesses is a potential conduit for identity theft, property/asset theft, and theft of the actual certificates. The present study proposes a method to prevent the private key file access illegally. When a certificate is stored, the private key is encrypted by the dependent element of the device, and it is stored securely. If private key leakage occurs, the retrieved key could not be used on other devices.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.43 no.12
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• pp.1325-1333
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• 2016

Software classification has several applications such as copyright infringement detection, malware classification, and software automatic categorization in software repositories. It can be also employed by software filtering systems to prevent the transmission of illegal software. If illegal software is identified by measuring software similarity in software filtering systems, the average number of comparisons can be reduced by shrinking the search space. In this study, we focused on the classification of Windows executables using API call information and machine learning. We evaluated the classification performance of machine learning-based classifier according to the refinement method for API information and machine learning algorithm. The results showed that the classification success rate of SVM (Support Vector Machine) with PolyKernel was higher than other algorithms. Since the API call information can be extracted from binary executables and machine learning-based classifier can identify tampered executables, API call information and machine learning-based software classifiers are suitable for software filtering systems.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.280-286
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• 2009

A policy of instant messaging usage is offered in this article. First, a brief introduction of instant messaging system structure is described. The main threats and vulnerabilities of Instant messenger (IM) are described in the second part of the paper. Instant messaging applications offer so many advantages in so many different fields that they're fast becoming the preferred communication tool for a number of different professional scenarios. When properly implemented, instant messaging can be a true asset to the business by making communications easier throughout the organization. If instant messaging is carelessly implemented, though, it can cause problems with privacy and may expose the organization to various forms of malware. The solution offered in this paper is one of the effective ways against threats of IM. However, the system cannot be secured entirely. All we can do is reducing the risks.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.12 no.2 s.46
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• pp.171-180
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• 2007

The financial crime that used morale anger Phishing, Pharming, Vishing, SMiSing etc. will gain during recent cyber crimes. We are study systematically whether or not leakage of information and infringement can how easily occur to Phishing, Vishing, SMiSing using a social engineering technique and VoIP at these papers through experiment. A hacker makes Phishing, Vishing site, and test an information infringement process of a user through PiSing mail and a virus, a nasty code, Vishing, a SMiSing character, disarmament of Keylogger prevention S/W etc. as establish server. Information by Phishing, Vishing, SMiSing is infringed with leakage in the experiment results, and confirm, and test certified certificate and White List and a certified authentication mark, plug-in program installation etc. to prevention, and security becomes, and demonstrate. Technical experiment and prevention regarding Phishing of this paper and Vishing attack reduce the damage of information infringement, and be education for Ubiquitous information security will contribute in technical development.

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.257-262
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• 2015

As software grows more complex, it contains more bugs that are not recognized by developers. Attackers can then use exploitable bugs to penetrate systems or spread malicious code. As a representative method, attackers manipulated documents or multimedia files in order to make the software engage in unanticipated behavior. Recently, this method has gained frequent use in A.P.T. In this paper, an automatic analysis method to find software security bugs was proposed. This approach aimed at finding security bugs in the software which can arise from input data such as documents or multimedia. Through dynamic taint analysis, how input data propagation to vulnerable code occurred was tracked, and relevant instructions in relation to input data were found. Next, the relevant instructions were translated to a formula and vulnerable input data were found via the formula using an SMT solver. Using this approach, 6 vulnerable codes were found, and data were input to crash applications such as HWP and Gomplayer.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.12
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• pp.471-476
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• 2016

Recently, important information related with smart work such as office and video conference are handled in smart device quite a lot compare with before. Also, execution environment of smart devices is getting developed as open software environment. It brought convenience to download and use any kind of application software. By that, security side of smart devices became vulnerable. This paper will discuss characteristics of smart device security technology based on virtualization that is a mobile device platform with isolated secure execution area based on TEE (Trusted Execution Environment). Also, this paper will suggest an implementation method about safe smart device security platform based on domain separation for application software which can be executed in smart devices. The domain separation based smart device security platform technology in this paper blocks unauthorized access and leakage of sensitive information in device. Also it will be the solution can block transmission and execution of malicious code in various area including variety of IoT devices in internet rather than just smart devices.