• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.59-63
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• 2023

We create a malware detector classification method with using the Sequential Probability Ratio Test (SPRT) in IoT. More specifically, we adapt the SPRT to classify malware detectors into two categories of basic and advanced in line with malware detection capability. We perform evaluation of our scheme through simulation. Our simulation results show that the number of advanced detectors is changed in line with threshold for fraction of advanced malware information, which is used to judge advanced detectors in the SPRT.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.64-69
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• 2023

We devise a collaboration construction method based on the SPRT (Sequential Probability Ratio Test) for malware detection in IoT. In our method, high-end IoT nodes having capable of detecting malware and generating malware signatures harness the SPRT to give a reward of malware signatures to low-end IoT nodes providing useful data for malware detection in IoT. We evaluate our proposed method through simulation. Our simulation results indicate that the number of malware signatures provided for collaboration is varied in accordance with the threshold for fraction of useful data.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.1121-1129
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• 2013

Recent malware distribution causes severe and nation-wide problems such as 3 20 cyber attack in Korea. In particular, Drive-by download attack, which is one of attack types to distribute malware through the web, becomes the most prevalent and serious threat. To prevent Drive-by download attacks, it is necessary to analyze MDN(Malware Distribution Networks) of Drive-by download attacks. Effective analysis of MDN requires a detection of obfuscated and/or encapsulated JavaScript in a web page. In this paper, we propose the scheme called Multi-level emulation to analyze the process of malware distribution. The proposed scheme analyzes web links used for malware distribution to support the efficient analysis of MDN.

• 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.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.163-171
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• 2021

Recently, Machine Learning-based visualization approaches have been proposed to combat the problem of malware detection. Unfortunately, these techniques are exposed to Adversarial examples. Adversarial examples are noises which can deceive the deep learning based malware detection network such that the malware becomes unrecognizable. To address the shortcomings of these approaches, we present Block-matching and 3D filtering (BM3D) algorithm and deep image prior based denoising technique to defend against adversarial examples on visualization-based malware detection systems. The BM3D based denoising method eliminates most of the adversarial noise. After that the deep image prior based denoising removes the remaining subtle noise. Experimental results on the MS BIG malware dataset and benign samples show that the proposed denoising based defense recovers the performance of the adversarial attacked CNN model for malware detection to some extent.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.869-882
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• 2012

With the growth of Web services and the development of web exploit toolkits, web-based malware has increased dramatically. Using Javascript Obfuscation, recent web-based malware hide a malicious URL and the exploit code. Thus, pattern matching for network intrusion detection systems has difficulty of detecting malware. Though various methods have proposed to detect Javascript malware on a users' web browser, the overall detection is needed to counter advanced attacks such as APTs(Advanced Persistent Treats), aimed at penetration into a certain an organization's intranet. To overcome the limitation of previous pattern matching for network intrusion detection systems, a novel deobfuscating method to handle obfuscated Javascript is needed. In this paper, we propose a framework for effective hidden malware detection through an automated deobfuscation regardless of advanced obfuscation techniques with overriding JavaScript functions and a separate JavaScript interpreter through to improve jsunpack-n.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.4105-4121
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• 2021

Recently, malware classification based on Deep Neural Networks (DNN) has gained significant attention due to the rise in popularity of artificial intelligence (AI). DNN-based malware classifiers are a novel solution to combat never-before-seen malware families because this approach is able to classify malwares based on structural characteristics rather than requiring particular signatures like traditional malware classifiers. However, these DNN-based classifiers have been found to lack robustness against malwares that are carefully crafted to evade detection. These specially crafted pieces of malware are referred to as adversarial examples. We consider a clever adversary who has a thorough knowledge of DNN-based malware classifiers and will exploit it to generate a crafty malware to fool DNN-based classifiers. In this paper, we propose a DNN-based malware classifier that becomes resilient to these kinds of attacks by exploiting Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) based data augmentation. The experimental results show that the proposed scheme classifies malware, including AEs, with a false positive rate (FPR) of 3.0% and a balanced accuracy of 70.16%. These are respective 26.1% and 18.5% enhancements when compared to a traditional DNN-based classifier that does not exploit GAN.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.43-49
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• 2010

Nowadays, the occurrence of Malware is steadily increasing. The Malware is also becoming more intelligent, advanced and changing into various types. With the development of the information industry, the economic and monetary value of the information is going up and the damage due to the leaked information by the Malware is also increasing. This paper investigates the general usage of the User Agent in the HTTP Header, studies the Malware production techniques by transformation of the User-Agent information and suggests the technical and political counterplan against them.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.357-367
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• 2020

According to Symantec's 2018 internet security threat report, The number of new mobile malware variants increased by 54 percent in 2017, as compared to 2016. And last year, there were an average of 24,000 malicious mobile applications blocked each day. Existing signature-based technologies of malware detection have limitations. So, malware detection technique through machine learning is being researched to detect malware variant. However, even in the case of applying machine learning, if the proper features of the malware are not properly selected, the machine learning cannot be shown correctly. We are focusing on feature selection method to find the features of malware variant in this research.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2017

Diverse types of malicious code such as evasive Server-side Polymorphic are developed and distributed in third party open markets. The suspicious new type of polymorphic malware has the ability to actively change and morph its internal data dynamically. As a result, it is very hard to detect this type of suspicious transaction as an evidence of Server-side polymorphic mobile malware because its C&C server was shut downed or an IP address of remote controlling C&C server was changed irregularly. Therefore, we implemented Simulated C&C Server to aggregate activated events perfectly from various Server-side polymorphic mobile malware. Using proposed Simulated C&C Server, we can proof completely and classify veiled server-side polymorphic malicious code more clearly.