• ETRI Journal
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• 제44권2호
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• pp.346-354
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• 2022

The SYN flooding attack is widely used in cyber attacks because it paralyzes the network by causing the system and bandwidth resources to be exhausted. This paper proposed a self-information approach for detecting the SYN flooding attack and provided a detection algorithm with a hierarchical policy on a detection time domain. Compared with other detection methods of entropy measurement, the proposed approach is more efficient in detecting the SYN flooding attack, providing low misjudgment, hierarchical detection policy, and low time complexity. Furthermore, we proposed a detection algorithm with limiting system resources. Thus, the time complexity of our approach is only (log n) with lower time complexity and misjudgment rate than other approaches. Therefore, the approach can detect the denial-of-service/distributed denial-of-service attacks and prevent SYN flooding attacks.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제33권7B호
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• pp.592-600
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• 2008

In this paper, a Hybrid Scaling based DTW (HS-DTW) mechanism is proposed for detection of periodic shrew TCP attacks. A low-rate TCP attack which is a type of shrew DoS (Denial of Service) attacks, was reported recently, but it is difficult to detect the attack using previous flooding DoS detection mechanisms. A pattern matching method with DTW (Dynamic Time Warping) as a type of defense mechanisms was shown to be reasonable method of detecting and defending against a periodic low-rate TCP attack in an input traffic link. This method, however, has the problem that a legitimate link may be misidentified as an attack link, if the threshold of the DTW value is not reasonable. In order to effectively discriminate between attack traffic and legitimate traffic, the difference between their DTW values should be large as possible. To increase the difference, we analyze a critical problem with a previous algorithm and introduce a scaling method that increases the difference between DTW values. Four kinds of scaling methods are considered and the standard deviation of the sampling data is adopted. We can select an appropriate scaling scheme according to the standard deviation of an input signal. This is why the HS-DTW increases the difference between DTW values of legitimate and attack traffic. The result is that the determination of the threshold value for discrimination is easier and the probability of mistaking legitimate traffic for an attack is dramatically reduced.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권5호
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• pp.1085-1100
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• 2011

The Random Early Detection algorithm is widely used in the queue management mechanism of the router. We find that the parameters of the RED algorithm have a significant influence on the defense performance of the random early detection algorithm and discuss the robust of the algorithm in mitigating Low-rate Denial-of-Service attack in details. Simulation results show that the defense performance can be effectively improved by adjusting the parameters of $Q_{min}$ and $Q_{max}$. Some suggestions are given for mitigating the LDoS attack at the end of this paper.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제44권3호
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• pp.33-40
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 최근 새롭게 발견된 low-rate TCP (LRT) 공격과 이 공격을 감지하기 위한 DTW (Dynamic Time Warping) 알고리즘을 분석하고 공격 검출에 대한 성능 향상을 위한 스케일링 기반 DTW (Scaling based DTW; S-DTW) 알고리즘을 소개한다. Low-rate TCP 공격은 대용량 트래픽을 사용한 기존 서비스 거부 공격과는 다르게 공격 트래픽의 평균 트래픽 양이 적어서 기존 DoS 공격에 대한 감지 방식으로는 검출되지 않는다. 그러나 LRT 공격은 주기적이고 짧은 버스트 트래픽으로 TCP 연결의 최소 재전송 타임아웃 (Retransmission Timeout; RTO)에 대한 취약성을 공격하기 때문에 패턴 매칭으로 공격 감지가 가능하다. 기존 메커니즘에 의한 감지 기법은 공격 패턴의 입력 샘플 템플릿을 기준으로 입력 트래픽이 정상 트래픽인지 또는 공격 트래픽인지를 판별한다. 이 과정에서 입력 트래픽의 특성에 따라서 DTW 알고리즘은 정상 트래픽을 공격 트래픽으로 오판하는 문제점을 갖는다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이러한 오판을 줄이기 위하여 기존 DTW 알고리즘의 전처리 과정인 자기상관 (auto-correlation) 처리를 분석하여 오판을 규명한다. 또한 스케일링 기반으로 자기상관 처리 결과를 수정하여 공격 트래픽과 정상 트래픽의 특성의 차이를 증가시킴으로써 DTW 알고리즘에 의한 공격 감지 능력을 향상시킨다 마지막으로 다양한 스케일링 방식과 표준편차에 의한 트래픽 분석 방법도 논의된다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제6권7호
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• pp.1831-1853
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• 2012

By sending periodically short bursts of traffic to reduce legit transmission control protocol (TCP) traffic, the low-rate denial of service (LDoS) attacks are hard to be detected and may endanger covertly a network for a long period. Traditionally, LDoS detecting methods mainly concentrate on the attack stream with feature matching, and only a limited number of attack patterns can be detected off-line with high cost. Recent researches divert focus from the attack stream to the traffic anomalies induced by LDoS attacks, which can detect more kinds of attacks with higher efficiency. However, the limited number of abnormal characteristics and the inadequacy of judgment rules may cause wrong decision in some particular situations. In this paper, we address the problem of detecting LDoS attacks and present a scheme based on the fluctuant features of legit TCP and acknowledgment (ACK) traffic. In the scheme, we define judgment criteria which used to identify LDoS attacks in real time at an optimal detection cost. We evaluate the performance of our strategy in real-world network topologies. Simulations results clearly demonstrate the superiority of the method proposed in detecting LDoS attacks.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제36권11B호
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• pp.1297-1304
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• 2011

SIP는 인터넷을 기반으로 하기에 기존 인터넷에서 발생하는 보안 위협에 노출되어 있어 서비스 거부 및 서비스 단절과 같은 문제를 야기하는 플러딩 공격에 영향을 받을 수 있다. 하지만 현재 제안된 서비스 거부 공격 대응 기법은 제안 기법의 복잡도와 다양한 서비스 거부 공격에 대응하지 못한다는 한계점이 있다. 그러므로 본 논문에서는 이러한 점을 고려하여 SIP 세션 설정 과정을 관찰하고 정상적인 세션을 맺은 사용자를 정상 사용자로 정의하여 이것을 이용한 화이트리스트를 구성함으로써 다양한 서비스 거부 공격 상황에서 정상 사용자에게 지속적인 서비스를 제공하고자 하는 방안을 제시한다. 본 방안은 다양한 공격 방법들을 네트워크 시뮬레이터인 OPNET을 이용하여 모델링하였고 서비스 거부 공격 시에도 지속적인 서비스 제공, 낮은 오탐율, 빠른 검색 시간을 달성코자 한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.2651-2673
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• 2019

In order to detect Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, victim-side detection methods are used popularly such as static threshold-based method and machine learning-based method. However, as DoS attacking methods become more sophisticated, these methods reveal some natural disadvantages such as the late detection and the difficulty of tracing back attackers. Recently, in order to mitigate these drawbacks, source-side DoS detection methods have been researched. But, the source-side DoS detection methods have limitations if the volume of attack traffic is relatively very small and it is blended into legitimate traffic. Especially, with the subtle attack traffic, DoS detection methods may suffer from high false positive, considering legitimate traffic as attack traffic. In this paper, we propose an effective source-side DoS detection method with traffic seasonality aware adaptive threshold. The threshold of detecting DoS attack is adjusted adaptively to the fluctuated legitimate traffic in order to detect subtle attack traffic. Moreover, by understanding the seasonality of legitimate traffic, the threshold can be updated more carefully even though subtle attack happens and it helps to achieve low false positive. The extensive evaluation with the real traffic logs presents that the proposed method achieves very high detection rate over 90% with low false positive rate down to 5%.

• 정보처리학회 논문지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.157-165
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• 2024

분산 서비스 거부 공격(DDoS Attack, Distributed Denial of Service Attack) 수법의 진화는 탐지 과정에서의 어려움을 가중시켰다. 기존 피해자측 탐지 방식의 한계로 인해 발생하는 문제를 극복하기 위한 솔루션 중 하나가 소스측 탐지 기법이었다. 그러나 네트워크 트래픽의 불규칙성으로 인한 성능 저하 문제가 존재하였다. 이 문제를 해결하기 위해 인공지능을 기반으로 한 여러 노드 간의 협업 네트워크를 활용하여 공격을 탐지하려는 연구가 진행되었다. 기존의 방법들은 특히 높은 버스트(Burstness)와 지터(Jitter)의 비선형적 트래픽 환경에서 한계를 보였다. 이러한 문제점을 극복하기 위해 본 논문에서는 어텐션(Attention) 메커니즘을 도입한 협업형 소스측 DDoS 공격 탐지 기법을 제시한다. 제안하는 방식은 여러 소스에서의 탐지 결과를 집계하여 각 지역에 가중치를 할당하며, 이를 통해 전반적인 공격 및 특정 소수 지역에서의 공격을 효과적으로 탐지할 수 있다. 특히, 비선형적인 트래픽 데이터셋에서 약 6% 수치의 낮은 가양성(False Positive)과 최대 4.3% 수치가 향상된 높은 탐지율을 보이며, 기존 비선형적 트래픽 환경에서 한계를 보였던 방법들에 비해 소수 지역의 공격 탐지 문제에 대한 개선도 확인할 수 있다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.397-406
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• 2014

Radio frequency (RF) jamming is a denial of service attack targeted at wireless networks. In resource-hungry scenarios with constant traffic demand, jamming can create connectivity problems and seriously affect communication. Therefore, the vulnerabilities of wireless networks must be studied. In this study, we investigate a particular type of RF jamming that exploits the semantics of physical (PHY) and medium access control (MAC) layer protocols. This can be extended to any wireless communication network whose protocol characteristics and operating frequencies are known to the attacker. We propose two efficient jamming techniques: A low-data-rate random jamming and a shot-noise based protocol-aware RF jamming. Both techniques use shot-noise pulses to disrupt ongoing transmission ensuring they are energy efficient, and they significantly reduce the detection probability of the jammer. Further, we derived the tight upper bound on the duration and the number of shot-noise pulses for Wi-Fi, GSM, and WiMax networks. The proposed model takes consider the channel access mechanism employed at the MAC layer, data transmission rate, PHY/MAC layer modulation and channel coding schemes. Moreover, we analyze the effect of different packet sizes on the proposed jamming methodologies. The proposed jamming attack models have been experimentally evaluated for 802.11b networks on an actual testbed environment by transmitting data packets of varying sizes. The achieved results clearly demonstrate a considerable increase in the overall jamming efficiency of the proposed protocol-aware jammer in terms of packet delivery ratio, energy expenditure and detection probabilities over contemporary jamming methods provided in the literature.