• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.679-689
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• 2012

There were clear differences between the DDoS attack on 7th July 2009 and the rest of them prior to the attack. Despite It had emitted relatively small sized packets per infected PC, the attack was very successful making use of HTTP Flooding attack by aggregating small sized packets from the well sized zombie network. As the objective of the attack is not causing permanent damage to the target system but temporal service disruption, one should ensure the availability of the target server by deploying effective defense strategy. In this paper, a novel HTTP based DDoS defense mechanism is introduced with capacity based defense-in-depth strategy.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.43 no.5
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• pp.596-605
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• 2016

Since the Denial of Service Attack against multiple targets in the Korean network in private and public sectors in 2009, Korea has spent a great amount of its budget to build strong Internet infrastructure against DDoS attacks. As a result of the investments, many major governments and corporations installed dedicated DDoS defense systems. However, even organizations equipped with the product based defense system often showed incompetency in dealing with DDoS attacks with little variations from known attack types. In contrast, by following a capacity centric DDoS detection method, defense personnel can identify various types of DDoS attacks and abnormality of the system through checking availability of service resources, regardless of the types of specific attack techniques. Thus, the defense personnel can easily derive proper response methods according to the attacks. Deviating from the existing DDoS defense framework, this research study introduces a capacity centric DDoS detection methodology and provides methods to mitigate DDoS attacks by applying the methodology.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.135-140
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• 2015

The WDSS improves defensive capacity against web application layer DDoS attack by using web cache server and L7 switch which are added on the DDoS shelter system. When web DDoS attack occurs, security agents divert traffic from backbone network to sub-network of the WDSS and then DDoS protection device and L7 switch block abnormal packets. In the meantime, web cache server responds only to requests of normal clients and maintains stable web service. In this way, the WDSS can counteract the web DDoS attack which generates small traffic and depletes server-client session resource. Furthermore, the WDSS does not require IP tunneling because it is not necessary to retransfer the normal requests to original web server. In this paper, we validate operation of the WDSS and verify defensive capability against web application layer DDoS attacks. In order to do this, we built the WDSS on backbone network of an ISP. And we performed web DDoS tests by using a testing system that consists of zombie PCs. The tests were performed by three types and various amounts of web DDoS attacks. Test results suggest that the WDSS can detect small traffic of the web DDoS attacks which do not have repeat flow whereas the formal DDoS shelter system cannot.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.667-669
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• 2012

Traditional DDoS defence methods are performed at server side which was attacked. If servers detect DDoS attack, they use some methods for defending the attack such as increasing the bandwidth, bypassing the traffic, blocking the IP addresses or blocking the ports by the firewall. But as lots of people use smart-phones, it is possible a smart-phone to be a zombie and DDoS attack could be much more a huge and powerful forms than now. Victims are not only a server but also a host which becomes a zombie. While it performs DDoS attack, zombie smart-phone users have to pay the extra charge. After finish the attack, DDoS try to destroy hard drives of zombie hosts. Therefore the situation is changed rather than to defend DDoS server side only, we should protect a client side who needs to prevent DDoS attacks. In this paper, we study a defence method that we terminates a process which perform the attack, send the information to different hosts when a zombie PC or smart-phone perform DDoS attacks.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.10
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• pp.732-742
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• 2016

This study suggests methods of defense against low-level high-bandwidth DDoS attacks by adding a solution with a time limit factor (TLF) to an existing high-bandwidth DDoS defense system. Low-level DDoS attacks cause faults to the service requests of normal users by acting as a normal service connection and continuously positioning the connected session. Considering this, the proposed method makes it possible for users to show a down-related session by considering it as a low-level DDoS attack if the abnormal flow is detected after checking the amount of traffic. However, the service might be blocked when misjudging a low-level DDoS attack in the case of a communication fault resulting from a network fault, even with a normal connection status. Thus, we made it possible to reaccess the related information through a certain period of blocking instead of a drop through blacklist. In a test of the system, it was unable to block the session because it recognized sessions that are simply connected with a low-level DDoS attack as a normal communication.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.04a
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• pp.362-365
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• 2015

DDoS 공격의 빈도와 규모가 계속 증가하고 있으며 그에 따른 피해와 파급도 커지고 있다. 최근 동향에서 봇넷을 이용한 패킷 플루딩 공격이 여전히 상위 공격순위를 차지하고 있다. 공격유형으로는 TCP SYN, UDP fragment 및 SSDP 플루딩 공격 등이 여전히 강세를 보이고 있다. 이러한 공격들은 source IP가 변조된 악의적인 패킷을 대량으로 발생시켜서 공격대상 네트워크 인프라를 마비시킨다. DDoS 공격 탐지를 위해서는 내부로 유입되는 초당 패킷수와 사용자와 서버간의 연결이 네트워크 플로우수의 변화를 관측하는 것이 필요하며 방어를 위해 트래픽 제어 기술이 필요하다. 이에 본 논문에서는 네트워크 서비스 분석 및 제어 기술인 DPI/QoS 솔루션을 이용한 플로우 기반의 DDoS 탐지 및 방어 시스템을 제안한다. 네트워크 모니터링과 제어를 위하여 사용하던 DPI/QoS 솔루션에 DDoS 탐지 및 방어기능을 추가함으로써 효율성 및 경제성에서 강점을 가질 것으로 기대한다.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.101-106
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• 2012

As the existing strategy of preventing DDoS(Distributed Denial of Service) attacks has limitations, this study is intended to suggest the more effective method of preventing DDoS attacks which reduces attack power and distributes attack targets. Currently, DDoS attacks have a wide range of targets such as individuals, businesses, labs, universities, major portal sites and financial institutions. In addition, types of attacks change from exhausting layer 3, network band to primarily targeting layer 7. In response to DDoS attacks, this study suggests how to distribute and decrease DDoS threats effectively and efficiently using Proxy Server Group and Dynamic DNS.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.8
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• pp.95-104
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• 2013

DDoS attacks have became as a social threat since 2009 7.7 DDoS turmoil. Even though defence techniques have been developing to provide against those threats, they become much more sophisticate. In recent years, the attack form of DDoS is changing from high amount of traffic attack of network layers to highly sophisticate small amount of application layers. To make matters worse, attack agent for the attack has became very intelligent so that it is difficult to be blocked since it can't be distinguished from normal PCs. In the user authentication system(such as CAPTCHA) User intervention is required to distinguish normal PCs and intelligent attack agents and in particular, in a NAT environment, IP-based blocking method can be cut off the normal users traffic at the same time. This research examined defense techniques which are able to distinguish between agent and normal PC and effectively block ways the HTTP DDoS offense applying one-time session key based authentication method using Cookie which is used in HTTP protocol to protect web sever from sophisticate application layer of DDoS.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.6845-6848
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• 2014

This paper proposes a system design of IDS for detecting and defending against DDoS attacks on a network. The proposed system has three parts; the Alert, Attack Analyzer and Defense agent. When the server resource was reduced too much by incoming traffic, the Alert Agent sends message and traffic information to the Attack Analyzer. The message and traffic to the Attack analyzer include only the sender & receiver address and packet numbers for minimizing the overload of Attack Analyzer. Message Received Attack Analyzer investigates the Message. If the pattern of traffic is the same as the DDoS Style, the Analyzer sends a message to the Defense Agent to block that traffic. In this system, at the serious state of the server-down, the Attack analyzer uncovers the DDoS Attacker and send a message to the Defense Agent to block that traffic. This works for server reactivation as soon as possible.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.79-86
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• 2013

The objective of DDoS Attacks is to simply disturb the services. In recent years, the DDoS attacks have been evolved into Multi-Vector Attacks which use diversified and mixed attacking techniques. Multi-Vector Attacks start from DDoS Attack and Malware Infection, obtain inside information, and make zombie PC to reuse for the next DDoS attacks. These forms of Multi-Vector Attacks are unable to be prevented by the existing security strategies for DDoS Attacks and Malware Infection. This paper presents an approach to effectively defend against diversified Multi-Vector attacks by using Reverse Proxy Group and PMS(Patch Management Server).