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

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2021.07a
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• pp.213-214
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• 2021

최근 4차 산업혁명으로 인해 사용자와 단말과의 연결이 증가하면서 악성코드에 의한 침해사고가 증가하였고, 이에 따라, 파일의 상세한 정보인 메타 데이터를 추출하여 악성코드를 탐지하는 파일 스캐닝 도구의 필요성이 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 대표적인 오픈소스 기반의 파일 스캐닝 도구인 Strelka, File Scanning Framework (FSF), Laika BOSS를 대상으로 파일 스캐닝 기술에서 주요한 성능 지표인 스캐닝 속도를 비교함으로써 각 도구의 성능을 평가하였다. 다양한 파일 종류를 선정한 테스트 셋을 기반으로 파일의 개수에 따른 속도를 비교하였으며, Laika BOSS, FSF, Strelka 순으로 성능이 높은 것으로 평가되었다. 결과적으로, 악의적인 파일을 빠르게 탐지하기 위한 파일 스캐닝 도구로 Laika BOSS가 가장 적합한 것으로 평가되었다.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.43-50
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• 2013

File identification and analysis is an important process of computer forensics, since the process determines which subjects are necessary to be collected and analyzed as digital evidence. An efficient file classification aids in the file identification, especially in case of copyright infringement where we often have huge amounts of files. A lot of file classification methods have been proposed by far, but they have mostly focused on classifying malicious behaviors based on known information. In copyright infringement cases, we need a different approach since our subject includes not only malicious codes, but also vast number of normal files. In this paper, we propose an efficient file classification method that relies on undocumented information in the header of the PE format files. Out method is useful in copyright infringement cases, being applied to any sort of PE format executable file whether the file is malicious, packed, mutated, transformed, virtualized, obfuscated, or not.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2023.05a
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• pp.178-179
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• 2023

이 논문은 OneNote 악성코드의 증가 추세와 그에 따른 Emotet 악성코드의 유포 방식 및 특징을 분석하고자 하는 목적으로 작성되었다. OneNote 는 페이지 내 어디든 자유롭게 콘텐츠를 삽입할 수 있는 특징 때문에 악성코드 유포에 적극적으로 이용되고 있다. 특히, Emotet 악성코드는 OneNote 파일을 이메일 첨부 파일로 유포하고, 문서 열람 시 클라우드 연결 버튼을 클릭하면 악성 스크립트 파일이 다운로드 되어 감염이 일어난다. 이러한 악성코드 유포 방식을 방지하기 위해서는 사용자 교육과 함께 보안 솔루션 강화가 필요하다는 결론을 내리고 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.149-156
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• 2022

Recently, there have been many reports of document-type malicious code injecting malicious code into Microsoft Office files. Document-type malicious code is often hidden by encoding the malicious code in the document. Therefore, document-type malware can easily bypass anti-virus programs. We found that malicious code was inserted into the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macro, a function supported by Microsoft Office. Malicious codes such as shellcodes that run external programs and URL-related codes that download files from external URLs were identified. We selected 354 keywords repeatedly appearing in malicious Microsoft Office files and defined the number of times each keyword appears in the body of the document as a feature. We performed machine learning with SVM, naïve Bayes, logistic regression, and random forest algorithms. As a result, each algorithm showed accuracies of 0.994, 0.659, 0.995, and 0.998, respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.429-442
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• 2020

The proportion of attacks via office documents is increasing in recent incidents. Although the security of office applications has been strengthened gradually, the attacks through the office documents are still effective due to the sophisticated use of social engineering techniques and advanced attack techniques. In this paper, we propose a method for detecting malicious OOXML(Office Open XML) documents and a framework for detection. To do this, malicious files used in the attack and benign files were collected from the malicious code repository and the search engine. By analyzing the malicious code types of collected files, we identified six "suspicious object" elements that are meaningful in determining whether they are malicious in a document. In addition, we implemented an OOXML document-based malware detection framework based on the detection method to classify the collected files and found that 98.45% of malicious filesets were detected.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.69-76
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• 2013

In the recent years, cyber attacks by malicious codes called malware has become a social problem. With the explosive appearance and increase of new malware, innumerable disasters caused by metaphoric malware using the existing malicious codes have been reported. To secure more effective detection of malicious codes, in other words, to make a more accurate judgment as to whether suspicious files are malicious or not, this study introduces the malware analysis system, which is based on a profiling technique using the Finite Automata. This new analysis system enables realtime automatic detection of malware with its optimized partial execution method. In this paper, the functions used within a file are expressed by finite automata to find their correlation, and a realtime malware analysis system enabling us to give an immediate judgment as to whether a file is contaminated by malware is suggested.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2020.11a
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• pp.424-427
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• 2020

인터넷의 활발한 이용으로 인해 악성코드의 유포 경로가 다양해지고 있다. 그 중, 문서형 악성코드 감염 사례가 증가하고 있다. 문서형 악성코드는 이메일, 온라인에서 다운로드 받는 PDF, DOCX 파일의 취약점을 통해 유포되고 있다. 이로 인해 우리는 쉽게 바이러스에 감염될 수 있다. 그러므로 문서형 악성코드의 예방은 매우 중요하다. 우리는 악성코드로 의심되는 문서 파일을 안전한 PDF 파일로 변환해 주는 오픈 소스 프로그램인 Dangerzone을 활용하여 개인과 기업에서 프로그램을 쉽고 편리하게 사용할 수 있도록 웹, 데스크톱 형태로 확장 개발한다.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.672-678
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• 2021

New malware continues to increase and become advanced by every year. Although various studies are going on executable files to diagnose malicious codes, it is difficult to detect attacks that internalize malicious code threats in emails by exploiting non-executable document files, malicious URLs, and malicious macros and JS in documents. In this paper, we introduce a method of analyzing malicious code for email security through proactive detection and blocking of malicious email attacks, and propose a method for determining whether a non-executable document file is malicious based on AI. Among various algorithms, an efficient machine learning modeling is choosed, and an ML workflow system to diagnose malicious code using Kubeflow is proposed.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.754-762
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• 2010

Nowadays, email-based targeted attacks using malcode-bearing documents have been steadily increased. To improve the success rate of the attack and avoid anti-viruses, attackers mainly employ zero-day exploits and relevant social engineering techniques. In this paper, we propose an architecture of the email vaccine cloud system to prevent targeted attacks using malcode-bearing documents. The system extracts attached document files from email messages, performs behavior analysis as well as signature-based detection in the virtual machine environment, and completely removes malicious documents from the messages. In the process of behavior analysis, the documents are regarded as malicious ones in cases of creating executable files, launching new processes, accessing critical registry entries, connecting to the Internet. The email vaccine cloud system will help prevent various cyber terrors such as information leakages by preventing email based targeted attacks.