• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.661-674
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• 2021

Malware, such as a rootkit that modifies the kernel, can adversely affect the analyst's judgment, making the analysis difficult or impossible if a mechanism to evade memory analysis is added. Therefore, we plan to preemptively respond to malware such as rootkits that bypass detection through advanced kernel modulation in the future. To this end, the main structure used in the Windows kernel was analyzed from the attacker's point of view, and a method capable of modulating the kernel object was applied to modulate the memory dump file. The result of tampering is confirmed through experimentation that it cannot be detected by memory analysis tool widely used worldwide. Then, from the analyst's point of view, using the concept of tamper resistance, it is made in the form of software that can detect tampering and shows that it is possible to detect areas that are not detected by existing memory analysis tools. Through this study, it is judged that it is meaningful in that it preemptively attempted to modulate the kernel area and derived insights to enable precise analysis. However, there is a limitation in that the necessary detection rules need to be manually created in software implementation for precise analysis.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.1947-1954
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• 2011

There are various attacks such as tampering, bypassing and spoofing which are caused with system-wide vulnerabilities of Windows operating system. The underlying operating system is responsible for protecting application-space mechanisms against such attacks. This paper provides the implementation of mandatory access control known as multi-level security (MLS) rating with TCSEC-B1 level on th kernel of Windows$^{TM}$. By adding especially the protection feature against tampering memory of processes to the security kernel, this implementation meets the responsibility against system-wide vulnerabilities.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.949-960
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• 2019

Due to miniaturization of electronic devices and development of IoT(Internet of Things), embedded system have been used in various field. Meanwhile, there is a potential vulnerability by the insufficient of system's security. In this paper, we implement secure boot using TPM to protect the integrity of embedded system environment. The Suggestion considers the required availability in the embedded system and detects the system's tampering at secure boot process via TPM. In addition, we have reinforced the confidentiality through AES encryption of the kernel at secure boot.