• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.459-469
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• 2023

The number of IoT devices is explosively increasing due to the development of embedded equipment and computer networks. As a result, cyber threats to IoT are increasing, and currently, malicious codes are being distributed and infected to IoT devices and exploited for DDoS. Currently, IoT devices that are the target of such an attack have various installation environments and have limited resources. In addition, IoT devices have a characteristic that once set up, the owner does not care about management. Because of this, IoT devices are becoming a blind spot for management that is easily infected with malicious codes. Because of these difficulties, the threat of malicious codes always exists in IoT devices, and when they are infected, responses are not properly made. In this paper, we will design an malware detection system for IoT in consideration of the characteristics of the IoT environment and present detection rules suitable for use in the system. Using this system, it will be possible to construct an IoT malware detection system inexpensively and efficiently without changing the structure of IoT devices that are already installed and exposed to cyber threats.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.43 no.7 s.349
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• pp.84-92
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• 2006

To defeat abnormal traffic driven by DoS (Denial-of-Service) or DDoS (Distributed DoS), there has been a variety of researches or studies in a few decades. In this paper, we present the results of theoretical performance analysis between attack prevention schemes and attack mitigation schemes. The former is a scheme that prevents abnormal incoming traffic from forwarding into a specific network based on filtering rules, and the latter is a scheme that makes some perimeter or intermediate routers, which exist on the traffic forwarding path, prevent abnormal traffic based on their own abnormal traffic information, or that mitigates abnormal traffic by using quality-of-service mechanisms at the gateway of the target network. The aspects of theoretical performance analysis are defined as the transit rates of either normal traffic or false-positive traffic after an attack detection routine processes its job, and we also present the concrete network bandwidth rates to control incoming traffic.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.1471-1492
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• 2015

The rapid development of smartphone technologies have resulted in the evolution of mobile botnets. The implications of botnets have inspired attention from the academia and the industry alike, which includes vendors, investors, hackers, and researcher community. Above all, the capability of botnets is uncovered through a wide range of malicious activities, such as distributed denial of service (DDoS), theft of business information, remote access, online or click fraud, phishing, malware distribution, spam emails, and building mobile devices for the illegitimate exchange of information and materials. In this study, we investigate mobile botnet attacks by exploring attack vectors and subsequently present a well-defined thematic taxonomy. By identifying the significant parameters from the taxonomy, we compared the effects of existing mobile botnets on commercial platforms as well as open source mobile operating system platforms. The parameters for review include mobile botnet architecture, platform, target audience, vulnerabilities or loopholes, operational impact, and detection approaches. In relation to our findings, research challenges are then presented in this domain.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.44 no.3 s.357
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• pp.33-40
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• 2007

In this paper, low-rate TCP attack as one of shrew attacks is considered and the scaling based dynamic time warping (S-DTW) algorithm is introduced. The low-rate TCP attack can not be detected by the detection method for the previous flooding DoS/DDoS (Denial of Service/Distirbuted Denial of Service) attacks due to its low average traffic rate. It, however, is a periodic short burst that exploits the homogeneity of the minimum retransmission timeout (RTO) of TCP flows and then some pattern matching mechanisms have been proposed to detect it among legitimate input flows. A DTW mechanism as one of detection approaches has proposed to detect attack input stream consisting of many legitimate or attack flows, and shown a depending method as well. This approach, however, has a problem that legitimate input stream may be caught as an attack one. In addition, it is difficult to decide a threshold for separation between the legitimate and the malicious. Thus, the causes of this problem are analyzed through simulation and the scaling by maximum auto-correlation value is executed before computing the DTW. We also discuss the results on applying various scaling approaches and using standard deviation of input streams monitored.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2019.01a
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• pp.119-122
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• 2019

최근 웹 변조 공격은 대형 포탈, 은행, 학교 등 접속자가 많은 홈페이지에 악성 URL을 불법 삽입하여 해당 URL을 통해 접속자 PC에 자동으로 악성코드 유포하고 대규모 봇넷(botnet)을 형성한 후 DDoS 공격을 수행하거나 감염 PC들의 정보를 지속적으로 유출하는 형태로 수행된다. 이때, 홈페이지에 삽입되는 악성 URL은 탐지가 어렵도록 Javascript 난독화 기법(obfuscation technique) 등으로 은밀히 삽입된다. 본 논문에서는 웹 소스코드에 은닉된 악성 Javascript URL들에 대한 일괄 점검체계를 제안하며, 구현된 점검체계의 prototype을 활용하여 점검성능에 대한 시험결과를 제시한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.155-163
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• 2014

To enhance network efficiency, content-centric networking (CCN) proposes that intermediated network nodes on a content-delivery path temporally cache transmitted contents. Then if an intermediated node receives a content request message (Interest) for previously cached content, the node directly transmits the cached content as a response message (Data) to requestors and finishes the transmission of the received Interest. Since Interest is performed by intermediated network nodes, it is possible to efficiently transmit contents and to effectively solve a network congestion problem caused around contents sources. For that, CCN utilizes both content store to temporarily cache content and pending Interest table (PIT) to record Interest incoming Face. However, it has mentioned the possibility of denial service attack using both the limitation of PIT resource and fake Interests. In this paper, we briefly describe the presented PIT flooding attack utilizing fake Interest. Then we introduce new attack possibility using fake Data and propose a countermeasure for the proposed attack. Also we evaluate the performance of our proposal.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.288-294
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• 2021

There are various ways to be infected with malicious code due to the increase in Internet use, such as the web, affiliate programs, P2P, illegal software, DNS alteration of routers, word processor vulnerabilities, spam mail, and storage media. In addition, malicious codes are produced more easily than before through automatic generation programs due to evasion technology according to the advancement of production technology. In the past, the propagation speed of malicious code was slow, the infection route was limited, and the propagation technology had a simple structure, so there was enough time to study countermeasures. However, current malicious codes have become very intelligent by absorbing technologies such as concealment technology and self-transformation, causing problems such as distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS), spam sending and personal information theft. The existing malware detection technique, which is a signature detection technique, cannot respond when it encounters a malicious code whose attack pattern has been changed or a new type of malicious code. In addition, it is difficult to perform static analysis on malicious code to which code obfuscation, encryption, and packing techniques are applied to make malicious code analysis difficult. Therefore, in this paper, a method to detect malicious code through dynamic analysis and static analysis using Trojan-type Downloader/Dropper malicious code was showed, and suggested to malicious code detection and countermeasures.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.27-33
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• 2019

One of serious security threats is a botnet-based attack. A botnet in general consists of numerous bots, which are computing devices with networking function, such as personal computers, smartphones, or tiny IoT sensor devices compromised by malicious codes or attackers. Such botnets can launch various serious cyber-attacks like DDoS attacks, propagating mal-wares, and spreading spam e-mails over the network. To establish a botnet, attackers usually inject malicious URLs into web source codes stealthily by using data hiding methods like Javascript obfuscation techniques to avoid being discovered by traditional security systems such as Firewall, IPS(Intrusion Prevention System) or IDS(Intrusion Detection System). Meanwhile, it is non-trivial work in practice for software developers to manually find such malicious URLs which are hidden in numerous web source codes stored in web servers. In this paper, we propose a security defense system to discover such suspicious, malicious URLs hidden in web source codes, and present experiment results that show its discovery performance. In particular, based on our experiment results, our proposed system discovered 100% of URLs hidden by Javascript encoding obfuscation within sample web source files.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.243-247
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• 2005

인터넷의 사용이 증가하면서, DDoS와 같은 네트워크 공격 역시 빠르게 증가하고 있다. 최근 발생하는 네트워크 상의 공격은 특정 호스트에 대한 피해뿐만 아니라, 전체 네트워크의 성능 저하를 유발한다. 이러한 피해를 막기 위해서 효율적인 탐지 기법이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는, 다중 엔트로피를 이용하여 고속의 네트워크 상황에 적합한 탐지 기법을 제시하였다. 제시한 기법은 공격의 발생에 따른 출발지 주소, 목적지 주소, 목적지 포트의 엔트로피를 관찰하여 공격을 탐지한다. 공격이 발생하였을 경우, 각각 의 엔트로피는 정상 상태와 다른 값을 가진다. 또한 공격의 특성에 따라 엔트로피 값들은 서로 다르게 변한다. 이를 이용하여 공격의 종류를 파악할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.971-974
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 대용량 네트워크에 비정상적인 트래픽이 유입이 되거나 나가는 경우 패킷 기반의 비정상 트래픽의 탐지와 분석이 가능토록 하는 시스템을 설계하고 구현하였다. 본 논문에서 구현한 시스템은 네트워크상의 이상 행위를 탐지하기 위하여, DDoS HTTP Get Flooding 공격 탐지 알고리즘을 적용하고, NetFPGA를 이용하여 라우터 단에서 패킷을 모니터링하며 공격을 탐지한다. 본 논문에서 구현한 시스템은 Incomplete Get 공격 타입의 Slowloris 봇과, Attack Type-2 공격 타입의 BlackEnergy, Netbot Vip5.4 봇에 높은 탐지율을 보였다.