• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.51-59
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• 2015

JavaScript is a popular technique for activating static HTML. JavaScript has drawn more attention following the introduction of HTML5 Standard. In proportion to JavaScript's growing importance, attacks (ex. DDos, Information leak using its function) become more dangerous. Since these attacks do not create a trail, whether the JavaScript code is malicious or not must be decided. The real attack action is completed while the browser runs the JavaScript code. For these reasons, there is a need for a real-time classification and determination technique for malicious JavaScript. This paper proposes the Analysis Engine for detecting malicious JavaScript by adopting the requirements above. The analysis engine performs static analysis using signature-based detection and dynamic analysis using behavior-based detection. Static analysis can detect malicious JavaScript code, whereas dynamic analysis can detect the action of the JavaScript code.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.766-783
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• 2012

Recently, many malicious users have attacked web browsers using JavaScript code that can execute dynamic actions within the browsers. By forcing the browser to execute malicious JavaScript code, the attackers can steal personal information stored in the system, allow malware program downloads in the client's system, and so on. In order to reduce damage, malicious web pages must be located prior to general users accessing the infected pages. In this paper, a novel framework (JsSandbox) that can monitor and analyze the behavior of malicious JavaScript code using internal function hooking (IFH) is proposed. IFH is defined as the hooking of all functions in the modules using the debug information and extracting the parameter values. The use of IFH enables the monitoring of functions that API hooking cannot. JsSandbox was implemented based on a debugger engine, and some features were applied to detect and analyze malicious JavaScript code: detection of obfuscation, deobfuscation of the obfuscated string, detection of URLs related to redirection, and detection of exploit codes. Then, the proposed framework was analyzed for specific features, and the results demonstrate that JsSandbox can be applied to the analysis of the behavior of malicious web pages.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.388-391
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• 2014

JavaScript는 AJAX와 같은 기술을 통해 정적인 HTML에 동적인 기능을 제공하며 그 쓰임새는 HTML5 등장 이후 더욱 주목받고 있는 기술이다. 그와 비례하여 JavaScript를 이용한 공격( DoS 공격, 기밀정보 누출 등 ) 또한 큰 위험으로 다가오고 있다. 이들 공격은 실제적인 흔적을 남기지 않기 때문에 JavaScript 코드 상에서 악성 행위를 판단해야 하며, 웹브라우저가 JavaScript 코드를 실행해야 실제적인 행위가 일어나기 때문에 이를 방지하기 위해선 실시간으로 악성 스크립트를 분별하고 파악할 수 있는 분석 기술이 필요하다. 본 논문은 이런 악성 스크립트를 탐지하는 분석엔진 기술을 제안한다. 이 분석 엔진은 시그니쳐 기반 탐지 기술을 이용한 정적 분석과 행위 기반 탐지 기술을 사용하는 동적 분석으로 이루어진다. 정적 분석은 JavaScript 코드에서 악성 스크립트 코드를 탐지하고 동적 분석은 JavaScript 코드의 실제 행위를 분석하여 악성 스크립트를 판별한다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.23 no.11
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• pp.85-93
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• 2018

In recent years, there has been an increasing number of ways to distribute document-based malicious code using vulnerabilities in document files. Because document type malware is not an executable file itself, it is easy to bypass existing security programs, so research on a model to detect it is necessary. In this study, we extract main features from the document structure and the JavaScript contained in the stream object In addition, when JavaScript is inserted, keywords with high occurrence frequency in malicious code such as function name, reserved word and the readable string in the script are extracted. Then, we generate a machine learning model that can distinguish between normal and malicious. In order to make it difficult to bypass, we try to achieve good performance in a black box type algorithm. For an experiment, a large amount of documents compared to previous studies is analyzed. Experimental results show 98.9% detection rate from three different type algorithms. SVM, which is a black box type algorithm and makes obfuscation difficult, shows much higher performance than in previous studies.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.9 no.10
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• pp.4191-4203
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• 2015

WebView is a vital component in smartphone platforms like Android, Windows and iOS that enables smartphone applications (apps) to embed a simple yet powerful web browser inside them. WebView not only provides the same functionalities as web browser, it, more importantly, enables a rich interaction between apps and webpages loaded inside the WebView. However, the design and the features of WebView lays path to tamper the sandbox protection mechanism implemented by browsers. As a consequence, malicious attacks can be launched either against the apps or by the apps through the exploitation of WebView APIs. This paper presents a critical attack called Supplementary Event-Listener Injection (SEI) attack which adds auxiliary event listeners, for executing malicious activities, on the HTML elements in the webpage loaded by the WebView via JavaScript Injection. This paper also proposes an automated static analysis system for analyzing WebView embedded apps to classify the kind of vulnerability possessed by them and a solution for the mitigation of the attack.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2018

Recently, distribution of malicious codes using the Internet has been one of the most serious cyber threats. Technology of malicious code distribution with detection bypass techniques has been also developing and the research has focused on how to detect and analyze them. However, obfuscated malicious JavaScript is almost impossible to detect, because the existing malicious code distributed web page detection system is based on signature and another limitation is that it requires constant updates of the detection patterns. We propose to overcome these limitations by means of an intelligent malicious code distributed web page detection system using a real browser that can analyze and detect intelligent malicious code distributed web sites effectively.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.422-435
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• 2016

Despite the convenience brought by the advances in web and Internet technology, users are increasingly being exposed to the danger of various types of cyber attacks. In particular, recent studies have shown that today's cyber attacks usually occur on the web via malware distribution and the stealing of personal information. A drive-by download is a kind of web-based attack for malware distribution. Researchers have proposed various methods for detecting a drive-by download attack effectively. However, existing methods have limitations against recent evasion techniques, including JavaScript obfuscation, hiding, and dynamic code evaluation. In this paper, we propose an emulation-based malicious webpage detection method. Based on our study on the limitations of the existing methods and the state-of-the-art evasion techniques, we will introduce four features that can detect malware distribution networks and we applied them to the proposed method. Our performance evaluation using a URL scan engine provided by VirusTotal shows that the proposed method detects malicious webpages more precisely than existing solutions.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.869-882
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• 2012

With the growth of Web services and the development of web exploit toolkits, web-based malware has increased dramatically. Using Javascript Obfuscation, recent web-based malware hide a malicious URL and the exploit code. Thus, pattern matching for network intrusion detection systems has difficulty of detecting malware. Though various methods have proposed to detect Javascript malware on a users' web browser, the overall detection is needed to counter advanced attacks such as APTs(Advanced Persistent Treats), aimed at penetration into a certain an organization's intranet. To overcome the limitation of previous pattern matching for network intrusion detection systems, a novel deobfuscating method to handle obfuscated Javascript is needed. In this paper, we propose a framework for effective hidden malware detection through an automated deobfuscation regardless of advanced obfuscation techniques with overriding JavaScript functions and a separate JavaScript interpreter through to improve jsunpack-n.