• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.7
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• pp.613-621
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• 2019

Recently, with the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing technologies, security threats have increased as malicious codes infect IoT devices, and new malware spreads ransomware to cloud servers. In this study, we propose a threat-detection technique that checks obfuscated script patterns to compensate for the shortcomings of conventional signature-based and behavior-based detection methods. Proposed is a malicious code-detection technique that is based on malicious script-pattern analysis that can detect zero-day attacks while maintaining the existing detection rate by registering and checking derived distribution patterns after analyzing the types of malicious scripts distributed through websites. To verify the performance of the proposed technique, a prototype system was developed to collect a total of 390 malicious websites and experiment with 10 major malicious script-distribution patterns derived from analysis. The technique showed an average detection rate of about 86% of all items, while maintaining the existing detection speed based on the detection rule and also detecting zero-day attacks.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.15-22
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• 2002

Java applet, executed in user's web browsers which is via proxy server on web sever, can approach client files or resources, so it is necessary to secure against malicious java applet. Currently, the previous security countermeasures against malicious java applet use two ways: one is making a filter system to detect malicious java applet hewn in proxy, the other is that establishes another security java virtual machine. However, the first one can not detect unknown malicious java applet, and the other one nay increase loads, because it decides whether there is malicious or not after implementing java applet on proxy server. In this paper, after inserting monitoring function to java applet on proxy server using java-methods substitution and transfer it to user to detect malicious java applet, we propose a technique for detecting malicious java applet that can detect the unknown malicious java applet with reducing loads

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.555-564
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• 2022

Recently, cyberattacks are using hacking techniques utilizing intelligent and advanced malicious codes for non-face-to-face environments such as telecommuting, telemedicine, and automatic industrial facilities, and the damage is increasing. Traditional information protection systems, such as anti-virus, are a method of detecting known malicious URLs based on signature patterns, so unknown malicious URLs cannot be detected. In addition, the conventional static analysis-based malicious URL detection method is vulnerable to dynamic loading and cryptographic attacks. This study proposes a technique for efficiently detecting malicious URLs by dynamically learning malicious URL data. In the proposed detection technique, malicious codes are classified using machine learning-based feature selection algorithms, and the accuracy is improved by removing obfuscation elements after preprocessing using Weighted Euclidean Distance(WED). According to the experimental results, the proposed machine learning-based malicious URL detection technique shows an accuracy of 89.17%, which is improved by 2.82% compared to the conventional method.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.197-202
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• 2022

IoT (Internet of Things) devices are being attacked by malware due to many security vulnerabilities, such as the use of weak IDs/passwords and unauthenticated firmware updates. However, due to the diversity of CPU architectures, it is difficult to set up a malware analysis environment and design features. In this paper, we design time series features using the byte sequence of executable files to represent independent features of CPU architectures, and analyze them using recurrent neural networks. The proposed feature is a fixed-length time series pattern extracted from the byte sequence by calculating partial entropy and applying linear interpolation. Temporary changes in the extracted feature are analyzed by RNN and LSTM. In the experiment, the IoT malware detection showed high performance, while low performance was analyzed in the malware family classification. When the entropy patterns for each malware family were compared visually, the Tsunami and Gafgyt families showed similar patterns, resulting in low performance. LSTM is more suitable than RNN for learning temporal changes in the proposed malware features.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.181-192
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• 2022

The emergence of new malware is incapacitating existing signature-based malware detection techniques., and applying various anti-analysis techniques makes it difficult to analyze. Recent studies related to signature-based malware detection have limitations in that malware creators can easily bypass them. Therefore, in this study, we try to build a machine learning model that can detect and classify the anti-analysis techniques of packers applied to malware, not using the characteristics of the malware itself. In this study, the n-gram opcodes are extracted from the malicious binary to which various anti-analysis techniques of the commercial packers are applied, and the features are extracted by using TF-IDF, and through this, each anti-analysis technique is detected and classified. In this study, real-world malware samples packed using The mida and VMProtect with multiple anti-analysis techniques were trained and tested with 6 machine learning models, and it constructed the optimal model showing 81.25% accuracy for The mida and 95.65% accuracy for VMProtect.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.117-124
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• 2016

Virtual environment is widely used for analyzing malware which is increasing very rapidly. However, knowing this trend, hackers are adopting virtual environment detection techniques for malware to kill itself or stop malicious behaviors when detecting virtual environments. Various research is going on in order to thwart any efforts to utilize anti-virtualization techniques, but until now several techniques can evade most of well known virtual environments, making malware analysis very difficult. Emulab developed by Utah University assigns real systems and networks as researchers want in realtime. This research seeks how to use Emulab for malware analysis.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.473-481
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• 2002

Decryption of encrypted malicious scripts is essential in order to analyze the scripts and to determine whether they are malicious. An effective decryption technique is one that is designed to consider the characteristics of the script languages rather than the specific encryption patterns. However, currently X-raying and emulation are not the proper techniques for the script because they were designed to decrypt binary malicious codes. In addition to that, heuristic techniques are unable to decrypt unknown script codes that use unknown encryption techniques. In this paper, we propose a new technique that will be able to decrypt malicious scripts based on analytical approach. we describe its implementation.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.19-26
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• 2014

Mobile malicious code is typically spread by the worm, and although modeling techniques to analyze the dispersion characteristics of the worms have been proposed, only macroscopic analysis was possible while there are limitations in predicting on certain viruses and malicious code. In this paper, prediction methods have been proposed which was based on Markov chain and is able to predict the occurrence of future malicious code by utilizing the past malicious code data. The average value of the malicious code to be applied to the prediction model of Markov chain model was applied by classifying into three categories of the total average, the last year average, and the recent average (6 months), and it was verified that malicious code prediction possibility could be increased by comparing the predicted values obtained through applying, and applying the recent average (6 months).

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.851-865
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• 2017

Ransomware such as WannaCry is a global issue and methods to defend against malware attacks are important. We have to be able to classify the malware types efficiently in order to minimize the damage from malwares. This study makes models to classify malware properly with various statistical techniques. Several classification techniques such as logistic regression, random forest, gradient boosting, and support vector machine are used to construct models. This study also helps us understand key variables to classify the type of malicious software.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.191-197
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• 2008

A safe computer environment is necessarily required for computer users, because of a damage is widely increased by a malicious software such as the warm, virus and trojan horse. A general vaccine program can detect after the malicious software intruded. This kinds of the vaccine program show good result against a malicious code which is well known, however, there is no function in the vaccine or not enough ability to detect an application software which a malicious code included. So, this paper proposes an application verification system to decide existence and nonexistence of a malicious code in the application software. The proposed application verification system with a mechanism that grasps the flow type of malicious code, can make a reduction of a damage for computer users before the application software executed.