• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.61-68
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• 2022

In recent years, malicious codes are being produced using the developing information and communication technology, and it is insufficient to detect them with the existing detection system. In order to accurately and efficiently detect and respond to such intelligent malicious code, an intelligent detection model is required, and in order to maximize detection performance, it is important to train with the main characteristic information set of the malicious code. In this paper, we proposed a technique for designing an intelligent detection model and generating the data required for model training as a set of key feature information through transformation, dimensionality reduction, and feature selection steps. And based on this, the main characteristic information was classified by malicious code. In addition, based on the classified characteristic information, we derived common characteristic information that can be used to analyze and detect modified or newly emerging malicious codes. Since the proposed detection model detects malicious codes by learning with a limited number of characteristic information, the detection time and response are fast, so damage can be greatly reduced and Although the performance evaluation result value is slightly different depending on the learning algorithm, it was found through evaluation that most malicious codes can be detected.

• 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.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.39-44
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• 2020

Malicious codes cause damage to equipments while avoiding detection programs(vaccines). The reason why it is difficult to detect such these new malwares using the existing vaccines is that they use "signature-based" detection techniques. these techniques effectively detect already known malicious codes, however, they have problems about detecting new malicious codes. Therefore, most of vaccines have recognized these drawbacks and additionally make use of "heuristic" techniques. This paper proposes a technology to detecting unknown malicious code using deep learning. In addition, detecting malware skill using Supervisor Learning approach has a clear limitation. This is because, there are countless files that can be run on the devices. Thus, this paper utilizes Stacked Convolution AutoEncoder(SCAE) known as Semi-Supervisor Learning. To be specific, byte information of file was extracted, imaging was carried out, and these images were learned to model. Finally, Accuracy of 98.84% was achieved as a result of inferring unlearned malicious and non-malicious codes to the model.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.63-70
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• 2009

This project presents a classification methodology for malicious codes in Windows OS (Operating System) environment, develops a test classification system. Thousands of malicious codes are brought in every day. In a result, classification system is needed to analyzers for supporting information which newly brought malicious codes are a new species or a variety. This system provides the similarity for analyzers to judge how much a new species or a variety is different to the known malicious code. It provides to save time and effort, to less a faulty analysis. This research includes the design of classification system and test system. We classify the malicious codes to 9 groups and then 9 groups divide the clusters according to the each property. This system provides the similarity for analyzers to save time and effort. It is used prospect system of malicious code in the future.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.1043-1052
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• 2020

Signature-based malicious code detection methods share a common limitation; it is very hard to detect modified malicious codes or new malware utilizing zero-day vulnerabilities. To overcome this limitation, many studies are actively carried out to classify malicious codes using N-gram. Although they can detect malicious codes with high accuracy, it is difficult to identify malicious codes that uses very short codes such as Spectre. We propose a function level N-gram comparison algorithm to effectively identify the Spectre binary. To test the validity of this algorithm, we built N-gram data sets from 165 normal binaries and 25 malignant binaries. When we used Random Forest models, the model performance experiments identified Spectre malicious functions with 99.99% accuracy and its f1-score was 92%.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.37-47
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• 2014

A Trojan malicious code is one of largest malicious codes and has been known as a virus that causes damage to a system as itself. However, it has been changed as a type that picks user information out stealthily through a backdoor method, and worms or viruses, which represent a characteristic of the Trojan malicious code, have recently been increased. Although several modeling methods for analyzing the diffusion characteristics of worms have proposed, it allows a macroscopic analysis only and shows limitations in estimating specific viruses and malicious codes. Thus, in this study an ESP model that can estimate future occurrences of Trojan malicious codes using the previous Trojan data is proposed. It is verified that the estimated value obtained using the proposed model is similar to the existing actual frequency in causes of the comparison between the obtained value and the result obtained by the Markov chain.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.439-446
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• 2022

Document-type malicious codes are being actively distributed using attachments on websites or e-mails. Document-type malicious code is relatively easy to bypass security programs because the executable file is not executed directly. Therefore, document-type malicious code should be detected and prevented in advance. To detect document-type malicious code, we identified the document structure and selected keywords suspected of being malicious. We then created a dataset by converting the stream data in the document to ASCII code values. We specified the location of malicious keywords in the document stream data, and classified the stream as malicious by recognizing the adjacent information of the malicious keywords. As a result of detecting malicious codes by applying the CNN model, we derived accuracies of 0.97 and 0.92 in stream units and file units, respectively.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.41-53
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• 2012

The technologies used by the malicious codes have been being advanced and complicated through a merge of the existing techniques, while the damages by the malicious codes are moving from individuals and industries to organizations and countries. In this situation, the security experts are corresponding with the static analysis and the dynamic analysis such as signature searching and reverse engineering, respectively. However, they have had a hard time to respond against the obfuscated intelligent new zero day malicious codes. Therefore, it is required to prepare a process for a preliminary investigation and consequent detailed investigation on the infection sequence and the hiding mechanism to neutralize the malicious code. In this paper, we studied the formalization of the process against the infection sequence and the file hiding techniques with an empirical application to the Rustock malicious code that is most notorious as a spammer. Using the result, it is expected to promptly respond to newly released malicious codes.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.17-28
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• 2006

The appearance of variant malicious codes using obfuscation techniques is accelerating the spread of malicious codes around the detection by a vaccine. n a system does not patch detection patterns for vulnerabilities and worms to the vaccine, it can be infected by the worms and malicious codes can be spreaded rapidly to other systems and networks in a few minute. Moreover, It is limited to the conventional pattern based detection and treatment for variants or new malicious codes. In this paper, we propose a method of behavior based detection by the static analysis, the dynamic analysis and the dynamic monitoring to detect a malicious code using obfuscation techniques with the PE compression. Also we show that dynamic monitoring can detect worms with the PE compression which accesses to important resources such as a registry, a cpu, a memory and files with the proposed method for similarity.