• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.793-799
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• 2021

Recently, there has been a growing interest in threat hunting presented to overcome the limitations of existing security solutions. Threat hunting is generally recognized as a technique for identifying and eliminating threats that exit inside the system. But, the definition is not clear, so there is confusion in terms with penetration testing, intrusion detection, and incident analysis. Therefore, in this paper, compare and analyze the definitions of threat hunting extracted from reports and papers to clarify their implications and compare with defense techniques.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.15-23
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• 2021

In most hacking attacks, hackers intrudes inside for a long period of time and attempts to communicate with the outside using a circumvent connection to achieve purpose. research in response to advanced and intelligent cyber threats has been mainly conducted with signature-based detection and blocking methods, but recently it has been extended to threat hunting methods. attacks from organized hacking groups are advanced persistent attacks over a long period of time, and bypass remote attacks account for the majority. however, even in the intrusion detection system using intelligent recognition technology, it only shows detection performance of the existing intrusion status. therefore, countermeasures against targeted bypass rwjqthrwkemote attacks still have limitations with existing detection methods and threat hunting methods. in this paper, to overcome theses limitations, we propose a model that can detect the targeted circumvent connection remote attack threat of an organized hacking group. this model designed a threat hunting process model that applied the method of verifying the origin IP of the remote circumvent connection, and verified the effectiveness by implementing the proposed method in actual defense information system environment.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.807-816
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• 2018

Threat hunting is defined as a process of proactively and iteratively searching through networks to detect and isolate advanced threats that evade existing security solutions. The main concept of threat hunting is to find out weak points and remedy them before actual cyber threat has occurred. And HMM(Hunting Maturity Matrix) is suggested to evolve hunting processes with five levels, therefore, CSOC(Cyber Security Operations Center) can refer HMM how to make them safer from complicated and organized cyber attacks. We are developing a system for cyber situation awareness system with pro-active threat hunting process called unMazeTM. With this unMaze, it can be upgraded CSOC's HMM level from initial level to basic level. CSOC with unMaze do threat hunting process not only detecting existing cyber equipment post-actively, but also proactively detecting cyber threat by fusing and analyzing cyber asset data and threat intelligence.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.721-736
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• 2023

The Command and Control Framework was developed for penetration testing and education purposes, but threat actors such as cybercrime groups are abusing it. From a cyber threat hunting perspective, identifying Command and Control Framework servers as well as proactive responding such as blocking the server can contribute to risk management. Therefore, this paper proposes a methodology for tracking the Command and Control Framework in advance. The methodology consists of four steps: collecting a list of Command and Control Framework-related server, emulating staged delivery, extracting botnet configurations, and collecting certificates that feature is going to be extracted. Additionally, experiments are conducted by applying the proposed methodology to Cobalt Strike, a commercial Command and Control Framework. Collected beacons and certificate from the experiments are shared to establish a cyber threat response basis that could be caused from the Command and Control Framework.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.7
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• pp.618-628
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• 2020

The purpose of this paper is to propose a new security orchestration service model by combining various security solutions that have been introduced and operated individually as a basis for cyber security framework. At present, in order to respond to various and intelligent cyber attacks, various single security devices and SIEM and AI solutions that integrate and manage them have been built. In addition, a cyber security framework and a security control center were opened for systematic prevention and response. However, due to the document-oriented cybersecurity framework and limited security personnel, the reality is that it is difficult to escape from the control form of fragmentary infringement response of important detection events of TMS / IPS. To improve these problems, based on the model of this paper, select the targets to be protected through work characteristics and vulnerable asset identification, and then collect logs with SIEM. Based on asset information, we established proactive methods and three detection strategies through threat information. AI and SIEM are used to quickly determine whether an attack has occurred, and an automatic blocking function is linked to the firewall and IPS. In addition, through the automatic learning of TMS / IPS detection events through machine learning supervised learning, we improved the efficiency of control work and established a threat hunting work system centered on big data analysis through machine learning unsupervised learning results.