• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2023.01a
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• pp.103-106
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• 2023

코로나 팬데믹 사태로 인해 업무환경이 재택근무를 하는 환경으로 바뀌고 악성코드의 변종 또한 빠르게 발전하고 있다. 악성코드를 분석하고 백신 프로그램을 만들면 새로운 변종 악성코드가 생기고 변종에 대한 백신프로그램이 만들어 질 때까지 변종된 악성코드는 사용자에게 위협이 된다. 본 연구에서는 머신러닝 알고리즘을 사용하여 악성파일 여부를 예측하는 방법을 제시하였다. 일반적인 악성코드의 구조를 갖는 Portable Executable 구조 파일을 파이썬의 LIEF 라이브러리를 사용하여 Certificate, Imports, Opcode 등 3가지 feature에 대해 정적분석을 하였다. 학습 데이터로는 정상파일 320개와 악성파일 530개를 사용하였다. Certificate는 hasSignature(디지털 서명정보), isValidcertificate(디지털 서명의 유효성), isNotExpired(인증서의 유효성)의 feature set을 사용하고, Imports는 Import Address Table의 function 빈도수를 비교하여 feature set을 구축하였다. Opcode는 tri-gram으로 추출하여 빈도수를 비교하여 feature set을 구축하였다. 테스트 데이터로는 정상파일 360개 악성파일 610개를 사용하였으며 Feature set을 사용하여 random forest, decision tree, bagging, adaboost 등 4가지 머신러닝 알고리즘을 대상으로 성능을 비교하였고, bagging 알고리즘에서 약 0.98의 정확도를 보였다.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.125-139
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• 2013

Distribution of malicious applications developed by attackers is increasing along with general normal applications due to the openness of the Android-based open market. Mechanism that allows more accurate ways to distinguish normal apps and malicious apps for common mobile devices should be developed in order to reduce the damage caused by the rampant malicious applications. This paper analysed the normal event pattern from the most highly used game apps in the Android open market to analyse the event pattern from normal apps and malicious apps of mobile devices that are based on the Android platform, and analysed the malicious event pattern from the malicious apps and the disguising malicious apps in the form of a game app among 1260 malware samples distributed by Android MalGenome Project. As described, experiment that extracts normal app and malicious app events was performed using Strace, the Linux-based system call extraction tool, targeting normal apps and malicious apps on Android-based mobile devices. Relevance analysis for each event set was performed on collected events that occurred when normal apps and malicious apps were running. This paper successfully extracted event similarity through this process of analyzing the event occurrence characteristics, pattern and distribution on each set of normal apps and malicious apps, and lastly suggested a mechanism that determines whether any given app is malicious.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.1325-1336
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• 2012

In the past about 10 different kinds of malicious code were found in one day on the average. However, the number of malicious codes that are found has rapidly increased reachingover 55,000 during the last 10 year. A large number of malicious codes, however, are not new kinds of malicious codes but most of them are new variants of the existing malicious codes as same functions are newly added into the existing malicious codes, or the existing malicious codes are modified to evade anti-virus detection. To deal with a lot of malicious codes including new malicious codes and variants of the existing malicious codes, we need to compare the malicious codes in the past and the similarity and classify the new malicious codes and the variants of the existing malicious codes. A former calculation method of the similarity on the existing malicious codes compare external factors of IPs, URLs, API, Strings, etc or source code levels. The former calculation method of the similarity takes time due to the number of malicious codes and comparable factors on the increase, and it leads to employing fuzzy hashing to reduce the amount of calculation. The existing fuzzy hashing, however, has some limitations, and it causes come problems to the former calculation of the similarity. Therefore, this research paper has suggested a new comparison method for malicious codes to improve performance of the calculation of the similarity using fuzzy hashing and also a classification method employing the new comparison method.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.593-603
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• 2020

The advent of malicious code has increased exponentially due to the spread of malicious code generation tools in accordance with the development of the network, but there is a limit to the response through existing malicious code detection methods. According to this situation, a machine learning-based malicious code detection method is evolving, and in this paper, the feature of data is extracted from the PE header for machine-learning-based malicious code detection, and then it is used to automate the malware through autoencoder. Research on how to extract the indicated features and feature importance. In this paper, 549 features composed of information such as DLL/API that can be identified from PE files that are commonly used in malware analysis are extracted, and autoencoder is used through the extracted features to improve the performance of malware detection in machine learning. It was proved to be successful in providing excellent accuracy and reducing the processing time by 2 times by effectively extracting the features of the data by compressively storing the data. The test results have been shown to be useful for classifying malware groups, and in the future, a classifier such as SVM will be introduced to continue research for more accurate malware detection.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.10
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• pp.32-40
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• 2014

While there is a great demand for malware classification to reduce the time required in malware analysis and find a new type of malware, various similarity measurement methods of malware to classify a lot of malwares have been proposed. But, the existing methods to measure similarity just represented the classification results by them and have not carried out performance comparison with other methods. This is because an evaluation model to compare the performance of similarity measurement methods is non-existent. In this paper, we propose a new performance evaluation model on similarity measurement methods of malware by using two indicators: success rate and degree of confidence. In addition, we compare and evaluate the performance of existing similarity measurement methods by using these two indicators.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.77-83
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• 2012

As web pages provide various services, the distribution of malware via the web pages is being also increased. Malware can make personal information leak, system mal-function and system be zombie. To protect this damages, we should block the malicious web pages. Because the malicious codes embedded in web pages are obfuscated or transformed, it is difficult to detect them using signature-based approaches which are used by current anti-virus software. To overcome this problem, we extracted features to classify malicious web pages and benign ones by analyzing web pages. And we propose a classification method using SVM which is widely used in machine learning. Experimental results show that the proposed method is better than other methods. The proposed method could classify malicious web pages correctly and be helpful to block the distribution of malicious codes.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.347-363
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• 2019

Malware has its own unique behavior characteristics, like DNA for living things. To respond APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) attacks in advance, it needs to extract behavioral characteristics from malware. To this end, it needs to do classification for each malware based on its behavioral similarity. In this paper, various similarity of Windows malware is estimated; and based on these similarity values, malware's family is predicted. The similarity measures used in this paper are as follows: 'TF-IDF cosine similarity', 'Nilsimsa similarity', 'malware function cosine similarity' and 'Jaccard similarity'. As a result, we find the prediction rate for each similarity measure is widely different. Although, there is no similarity measure which can be applied to malware classification with high accuracy, this result can be helpful to select a similarity measure to classify specific malware family.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.519-529
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• 2019

Nowadays, intelligent Android malware applies anti-analysis techniques to hide malicious behaviors and make it difficult for anti-virus vendors to detect its presence. Malware can use background components to hide harmful operations, use activity-alias to get around with automation script, or wipe the logcat to avoid forensics. During our study, several static analysis tools can not extract these hidden components like main activity, and dynamic analysis tools also have problem with code coverage due to partial execution of android malware. In this paper, we design and implement a system to analyze intelligent malware that uses anti-analysis techniques to improve detection rate of evasive malware. It extracts the hidden components of malware, runs background components like service, and generates all the intent events defined in the app. We also implemented a real-time logging system that uses modified logcat to block deleting logs from malware. As a result, we improve detection rate from 70.9% to 89.6% comparing other container based dynamic analysis platform with proposed system.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.907-913
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• 2022

Approximately 70% of smartphone users around the world use Android operating system-based smartphones, and malicious apps targeting these Android platforms are constantly increasing. Google has provided "Google Play Protect" to respond to the increasing number of Android targeted malware, preventing malicious apps from being installed on smartphones, but many malicious apps are still normal. It threatens the smartphones of ordinary users registered in the Google Play store by disguising themselves as apps. However, most people rely on antivirus programs to detect malicious apps because the average user needs a great deal of expertise to check for malicious apps. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a method to classify unnecessary malicious permissions of apps by using only the categories and permissions that can be easily confirmed by the app, and to easily detect malicious apps through the classified permissions. The proposed method is compared and analyzed from the viewpoint of undiscovered rate and false positives with the "commercial malicious application detection program", and the performance level is presented.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.11 no.7
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• pp.225-232
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• 2022

Recent development in information and communication technology has been beneficial to many, but at the same time, malicious attack attempts are also increasing through vulnerabilities in new programs. Among malicious attacks, malware operate in various ways and is distributed to people in new ways every time, and to solve this malware, it is necessary to quickly analyze and provide defense techniques. If new malware can be classified into the same type of malware, malware has similar behavioral characteristics, so they can provide defense techniques for new malware using analyzed malware. Therefore, there is a need for a solution to this because the method of accurately and quickly classifying malware and the number of data may not be uniform for each family of analyzed malware. This paper proposes a system that combines image preprocessing and ensemble techniques to increase accuracy in imbalanced data.