• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.59-67
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• 2006

Recently the Personal Computer hacking and game hacking for the purpose of gaining an economic profit is increased in Windows system. Malicious code often uses methods which inject dll or code into memory in target process for using covert channel for communicating among them, bypassing secure products like personal firewalls and obtaining sensitive information in system. This paper analyzes the technique for injecting and executing code into memory area in target process. In addition, this analyzes the PE format and IMPORT table for extracting injected dll in running process in affected system and describes a method for extracting and analyzing explicitly loaded dll files related with running process. This technique is useful for finding and analyzing infected processes in affected system.

• Journal of Software Assessment and Valuation
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.9-23
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• 2020

Microsoft's Windows system is widely used as an operating system for the desktops and enterprise servers of companies or organizations, and is a major target of cyber attacks. Microsoft provides various protection technologies and strives for defending the attacks through periodic security patches, however the threats such as DLL injection and process injection still exist. In this paper, we analyze 12 types of injection techniques in Microsoft Windows, and perform injection attack experiments on four application programs. Through the results of the experiments, we identify the risk of injection techniques, and verify the effectiveness of the mitigation technology for defending injection attacks provided by Microsoft. As a result of the experiments, we have found that the current applications are vulnerable to several injection techniques. Finally, we have presented the mitigation techniques for these injection attacks and analyzed their effectiveness.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.75-86
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• 2020

With the recent advancement of malware, the actors performing malicious tasks are often not processes. Malicious code injected into the process that is installed by default in the operating system works thread by thread in the same way as DLL / code injection. In this case, diagnosing and blocking the process as malicious can cause serious problems with system operation. This white paper lists the problems of how to use process-based monitoring information to identify and block the malicious state of a process and presents an improved solution.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.19-26
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• 2019

At the opening ceremony of 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, an unknown cyber-attack occurred. The malicious code used in the attack is based on in-memory malware, which differs from other malicious code in its concealed location and is spreading rapidly to be found in more than 140 banks, telecommunications and government agencies. In-memory malware accounts for more than 15% of all malicious codes, and it does not store its own information in a non-volatile storage device such as a disk but resides in a RAM, a volatile storage device and penetrates into well-known processes (explorer.exe, iexplore.exe, javaw.exe). Such characteristics make it difficult to analyze it. The most recently released in-memory malicious code bypasses the endpoint protection and detection tools and hides from the user recognition. In this paper, we propose a method to efficiently extract the payload by unpacking injection through IDA Pro debugger for Dorkbot and Erger, which are in-memory malicious codes.

• Review of KIISC
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.22-26
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• 2017

온라인 게임은 가장 성공적인 인터넷 서비스 중 하나로서 빠른 속도로 성장해 왔다. 그러나 게임을 대상으로 하는 다양한 공격들이 있었고 그로 인해 많은 정상 사용자들 및 게임서비스 회사에 피해가 발생함에 따라, 온라인 게임 서비스를 보호하기 위한 다양한 기법들이 연구되어 왔다. 실제로 대규모 이용자들이 접속하는 PC 게임들의 경우, 게임 클라이언트단, 네트워크 단, 서버 단 각 구간별로 다양한 보안 기법들이 개발되어 적용되어 왔다. 이 중, 게임 클라이언트는 사용자 및 해커 쪽에서 손쉽게 접근이 가능하기 때문에 공격에 쉽게 노출되어 있어 신뢰하기 어려운 구간이었다. 더불어, 게임 클라이언트 단에 강력한 보안을 적용할 경우 성능저하가 발생하기 때문에 상용 게임보안 솔루션에 의해 프로세스 및 메모리 보호를 받는 등 역공학 방지 기법 및 난독화 기법 정도만을 최소한으로 적용하고, 그 외에는 대부분의 탐지 및 차단 기법들을 네트워크 단 및 서버 단에 적용하는 것이 일반화 되어 있다. 하지만, 최근 하드웨어의 지원을 받아 클라이언트 단의 성능저하를 최소화 하면서도, 게임 클라이언트를 TEE (Trusted Execution Environment)에서 안전하게 실행할 수 있는 기술들이 등장하면서, 게임 클라이언트 단의 보안기술이 다시 주목받고 있다. 본 논문에서는 메모리 변조 공격 및 게임프로세스에 인젝션 공격을 하는 게임해킹 기법들에 대응하기 위하여 Intel에서 발표한 새로운 하드웨어 보안 기술인 Intel SGX(Software Guard Extensions)를 적용하는 방안에 대해 소개한다. Intel SGX를 적용하여 게임프로그램의 프로세스를 보호할 경우 코드와 데이터의 무결성 및 기밀성을 보장하며 실행시킬 수 있기 때문에, 온라인게임보안 발전에 상당히 기여할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.283-293
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• 2012

A new type of malware that extracts personal and account data over an extended period of time and that apparently is resistant to detection by vaccines has been identified. Generally, a malware is installed on a computer through network-to-network connections by utilizing Web vulnerabilities that contain injection, XSS, broken authentication and session management, or insecure direct-object references, among others. After the malware executes registration of an arbitrary service and an arbitrary process on a computer, it then periodically communicates the collected confidential information to a hacker. This paper is a systematic approach to analyzing a new type of malware called "winweng," a kind of worm that frequently made appearances during the first half of 2011. The research describes how the malware came to be in circulation, how it infects computers, how its operations expose its existence and suggests improvements in responses and countermeasures. Keywords: Malware, Worm, Winweng, SNORT.