• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.808-810
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• 2013

최근 인터넷 사용이 보편화됨과 더불어 정치적, 경제적인 목적으로 웹사이트와 이메일을 악용한 악성 코드가 급속히 유포되고 있다. 유포된 악성코드의 대부분은 기존 악성코드를 변형한 변종 악성코드이다. 이에 변종 악성코드를 탐지하기 위해 유사 악성코드를 분류하는 연구가 활발하다. 그러나 기존 연구에서는 정적 분석을 통해 얻어진 정보를 가지고 분류하기 때문에 실제 발생되는 행위에 대한 분석이 어려운 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 악성코드가 호출하는 API(Application Program Interface) 정보를 추출하고 유사도를 분석하여 악성코드를 분류하는 기법을 제안한다. 악성코드가 호출하는 API의 유사도를 분석하기 위해서 동적 API 후킹이 가능한 악성코드 API 분석 시스템을 개발하고 퍼지해시(Fuzzy Hash)인 ssdeep을 이용하여 비교 가능한 고유패턴을 생성하였다. 실제 변종 악성코드 샘플을 대상으로 한 실험을 수행하여 제안하는 악성코드 분류 기법의 유용성을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.187-196
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• 2016

Android applications are inherently vulnerable to a repackaging attack such that malicious codes are easily inserted into an application and then resigned by the attacker. These days, it occurs often that such private or individual information is leaked. In principle, all Android applications are composed of user defined methods and APIs. As well as accessing to resources on platform, APIs play a role as a practical functional feature, and user defined methods play a role as a feature by using APIs. In this paper we propose a scheme to analyze sensitive APIs mostly used in malicious applications in terms of how malicious applications operate and which API they use. Based on the characteristics of target APIs, we accumulate the knowledge on such APIs using a machine learning scheme based on Naive Bayes algorithm. Resulting from the learned results, we are able to provide fine-grained numeric score on the degree of vulnerabilities of mobile applications. In doing so, we expect the proposed scheme will help mobile application developers identify the security level of applications in advance.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.11-17
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• 2019

Recently, the abuse of Internet technology has caused economic and mental harm to society as a whole. Especially, malicious code that is newly created or modified is used as a basic means of various application hacking and cyber security threats by bypassing the existing information protection system. However, research on small-capacity executable files that occupy a large portion of actual malicious code is rather limited. In this paper, we propose a model that can analyze the characteristics of known small capacity executable files by using data mining techniques and to use them for detecting unknown malicious codes. Data mining analysis techniques were performed in various ways such as Naive Bayesian, SVM, decision tree, random forest, artificial neural network, and the accuracy was compared according to the detection level of virustotal. As a result, more than 80% classification accuracy was verified for 34,646 analysis files.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.657-667
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• 2020

The Android framework allows apps to take full advantage of personal information through granting single permission, and does not determine whether the data being leaked is actual personal information. To solve these problems, we propose a tool with static/dynamic analysis. The tool analyzes the Source and Sink used by the target app, to provide users with information on what personal information it used. To achieve this, we extracted the Source and Sink through Control Flow Graph and make sure that it leaks the user's privacy when there is a Source-to-Sink flow. We also used the sensitive permission information provided by Google to obtain information from the sensitive API corresponding to Source and Sink. Finally, our dynamic analysis tool runs the app and hooks information from each sensitive API. In the hooked data, we got information about whether user's personal information is leaked through this app, and delivered to user. In this process, an automated Source/Sink classification model was applied to collect latest Source/Sink information, and the we categorized latest release version of Android(9.0) with 88.5% accuracy. We evaluated our tool on 2,802 APKs, and found 850 APKs that leak personal information.