• Journal of Platform Technology
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.3-17
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• 2021

Advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks are attacks aimed at a particular entity as a set of latent and persistent computer hacking processes. These APT attacks are usually carried out through various methods, including spam mail and disguised banner advertising. The same name is also used for files, since most of them are distributed via spam mail disguised as invoices, shipment documents, and purchase orders. In addition, such Infostealer attacks were the most frequently discovered malicious code in the first week of February 2021. CDR is a 'Content Disarm & Reconstruction' technology that can prevent the risk of malware infection by removing potential security threats from files and recombining them into safe files. Gartner, a global IT advisory organization, recommends CDR as a solution to attacks in the form of attachments. There is a program using CDR techniques released as open source is called 'Dangerzone'. The program supports the extension of most document files, but does not support the extension of HWP files that are widely used in Korea. In addition, Gmail blocks malicious URLs first, but it does not block malicious URLs in mail systems such as Naver and Daum, so malicious URLs can be easily distributed. Based on this problem, we developed a 'Dangerzone' program that supports the HWP extension to prevent APT attacks, and a Chrome extension that performs URL checking in Naver and Daum mail and blocking banner ads.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.1-13
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• 2022

As the information and communication environment develops, the environment of military facilities is also development remarkably. In proportion to this, cyber threats are also increasing, and in particular, APT attacks, which are difficult to prevent with existing signature-based cyber defense systems, are frequently targeting military and national infrastructure. It is important to identify attack groups for appropriate response, but it is very difficult to identify them due to the nature of cyber attacks conducted in secret using methods such as anti-forensics. In the past, after an attack was detected, a security expert had to perform high-level analysis for a long time based on the large amount of evidence collected to get a clue about the attack group. To solve this problem, in this paper, we proposed an automation technique that can classify an attack group within a short time after detection. In case of APT attacks, compared to general cyber attacks, the number of attacks is small, there is not much known data, and it is designed to bypass signature-based cyber defense techniques. As an attack model, we used MITRE ATT&CK® which modeled many parts of cyber attacks. We design an impact score considering the versatility of the attack techniques and proposed a group similarity score based on this. Experimental results show that the proposed method classified the attack group with a 72.62% probability based on Top-5 accuracy.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.189-194
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• 2020

Most cyber breaches are caused by APT attacks using malware. Hackers use the email system as a medium to penetrate the target. It uses e-mail as a method to access internally, destroys databases using long-term collected vulnerabilities, and illegally acquires personal information through system operation and ransomware. As such, the e-mail system is the most friendly and convenient, but at the same time operates in a blind spot of security. As a result, personal information leakage accidents can cause great damage to the company and society as a whole. This study intends to suggest an effective methodology to securely manage the APT attack by strengthening the security configuration of the e-mail system operating in the enterprise.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.839-850
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• 2014

As the social and financial damages caused by APT attack such as 3.20 cyber terror are increased, the technical solution against APT attack is required. It is, however, difficult to protect APT attack with existing security equipments because the attack use a zero-day malware persistingly. In this paper, we propose a host based anomaly detection method to overcome the limitation of the conventional signature-based intrusion detection system. First, we defined 39 features to identify between normal and abnormal behavior, and then collected 8.7 million feature data set that are occurred during running both malware and normal executable file. Further, each process is represented as 83-dimensional vector that profiles the frequency of appearance of features. the vector also includes the frequency of features generated in the child processes of each process. Therefore, it is possible to represent the whole behavior information of the process while the process is running. In the experimental results which is applying C4.5 decision tree algorithm, we have confirmed 2.0% and 5.8% for the false positive and the false negative, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.208-209
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• 2016

APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) 공격 사례가 증가하면서, 이러한 APT 공격을 해결하고자 이상 행위 탐지 기술 관련 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 최근에는 APT 공격의 탐지율을 높이기 위해서 빅데이터 기술을 활용하여 다양한 소스로부터 대규모 데이터를 수집하여 실시간 분석하는 연구들이 시도되고 있다. 본 논문은 빅데이터 기술을 활용하여 기존 시스템들의 실시간 처리 및 분석 한계를 극복하기 위한 실시간 비정상 행위 탐지 시스템에서, 파일 시스템에 수집된 오프라인 데이터 기반이 아닌 온라인 수집 데이터 기반으로 실시간 비정상 행위를 탐지하여 실시간성을 제고하고 입출력 병목 문제로 인한 처리 성능 확장성 문제를 해결하는 방법 및 시스템에 대해서 제안한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.9
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• pp.92-99
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• 2013

As a recent cyber attack has a characteristic that is intellectual, advanced, and complicated attack against precise purpose and specified object, it becomes extremely hard to recognize or respond when accidents happen. Since a scale of damage is very large, a corresponding system about this situation is urgent in national aspect. Existing data center or integration security framework of computer lab is evaluated to be a behind system when it corresponds to cyber attack. Therefore, this study suggests a better sophisticated next generation convergence security framework in order to prevent from attacks based on advanced persistent threat. Suggested next generation convergence security framework is designed to have preemptive responses possibly against APT attack consisting of five hierarchical steps in domain security layer, domain connection layer, action visibility layer, action control layer and convergence correspondence layer. In domain connection layer suggests security instruction and direction in domain of administration, physical and technical security. Domain security layer have consistency of status information among security domain. A visibility layer of Intellectual attack action consists of data gathering, comparison, decision, lifespan cycle. Action visibility layer is a layer to control visibility action. Lastly, convergence correspond layer suggests a corresponding system of before and after APT attack. An introduction of suggested next generation convergence security framework will execute a better improved security control about continuous, intellectual security threat.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.04a
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• pp.388-391
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• 2015

현재 개인정보보호법 및 정보보안에 대한 중요한 이슈가 되고 있다. 데이터 유출사고의 약 76%가 외부조직에서 발견되었고, 피해조직의 내부에서 발견된 비율 중 절반 이상이 최종 사용자에 의해 발견되었다. 관제대상과 범위가 주로 네트워크 영역으로 한정되어 있고 외부로부터 유입되는 공격에 대한 모니터링에 집중하는 보안관제 체계가 사고의 원인으로 파악되었다. 즉 내부 PC를 대상으로 하는 공격이나, 패턴기반의 탐지를 우회하는 알려지지 않은 취약점을 이용한 APT공격, 사회공학적 공격 등에는 한계를 보이는 경우이다. 향후 사물인터넷(IoT)의 증가로 인하여 더 많은 취약점 공격과 대량의 비정형 데이터가 증가할 경우 내외부적인 공격에 보안 체계가 더 체계적이고 계층적 방어 보안 모델로 대응해야 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2020.05a
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• pp.177-179
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• 2020

최근의 사이버 침해 사고는 공격 대상을 지정하여 지속적으로 공격을 시도하는 APT(Advanced Persistent Threat)와 랜섬웨어(Ransomware) 공격이 주를 이룬다. APT 공격은 dirve by download 를 통하여 의도하지 않은 파일의 다운로드를 유도하고, 다운로드 된 파일은 역통신채널을 만들어 내부 데이터를 외부로 유출하는 방식으로 공격에 사용되는 악성 파일이 사용자 모르게 다운로드 되어 실행된다. 랜섬웨어는 스피어 피싱 (Spear-phishing) 과 같은 사회공학기법을 이용하여 신뢰 된 출처로 유장 된 파일을 실행하도록 하여 주요 파일들을 암호화 한다. 때문에 사용자와 공격자 사이 네트워크 중간에 위치한 패킷 기반의 보안 장비들은 사용자에 의해 다운로드 되는 파일들을 선제적으로 식별하고, 차단하여 침해 확산을 방지 할 수 있는 방안이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 네트워크 패킷 레벨에서 알려진 악성파일을 식별하고 실시간 차단하는 방안에 대하여 연구하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.275-278
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• 2013

Log is a file system, a system that uses all remaining data. Want situation now being issued in the IT, media Nate on information disclosure, the press agency server hack by numbness crime occurred. Hacking crisis that's going through this log analysis software professionally for professional analysis is needed. The present study, about APT attacks happening intelligently Log In case of more than traceback in advance to prevent the technology to analyze the pattern for log analysis techniques.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.67-78
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• 2020

Typical security solutions such as intrusion detection system are not suitable for detecting advanced persistent attack(APT), because they cannot draw the big picture from trivial events of security solutions. Researches on techniques for detecting multiple stage attacks by analyzing the correlations between security events or alerts are being actively conducted in academic field. However, these studies still use events from existing security system, and there is insufficient research on the structure of the entire security system suitable for advanced persistent attacks. In this paper, we propose an attack path and intention recognition system suitable for multiple stage attacks like advanced persistent attack detection. The proposed system defines the trace format and overall structure of the system that detects APT attacks based on the correlation and behavior analysis, and is designed with a structure of detection system using deep learning and big data technology, etc.