• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.775-784
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• 2019

Malware infringement attacks are continuously increasing in various environments such as mobile, IOT, windows and mac due to the emergence of new and variant malware, and signature-based countermeasures have limitations in detection of malware. In addition, analytical performance is deteriorating due to obfuscation, packing, and anti-VM technique. In this paper, we propose a system that can detect malware based on machine learning by using similarity hashing-based pattern detection technique and static analysis after file classification according to packing. This enables more efficient detection because it utilizes both pattern-based detection, which is well-known malware detection, and machine learning-based detection technology, which is advantageous for detecting new and variant malware. The results of this study were obtained by detecting accuracy of 95.79% or more for benign sample files and malware sample files provided by the AI-based malware detection track of the Information Security R&D Data Challenge 2018 competition. In the future, it is expected that it will be possible to build a system that improves detection performance by applying a feature vector and a detection method to the characteristics of a packed file.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.1077-1086
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• 2017

Malware mutants based on existing malware is widely used because it can easily avoid the existing security system even with a slight pattern change. These malware appear on average more than 1.6 million times a day, and they are gradually expanding to IoT / ICS as well as cyber space, which has a large scale of damage. In this paper, we propose an analytical method based on features of PE Section and DLL that do not give much significance, rather than pattern-based analysis, Sandbox-based analysis, and CFG, Strings-based analysis. It is expected that the proposed model will be able to cope with effective malicious code in case of combined operation of various existing analysis technologies.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.1365-1373
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• 2019

Meltdown and Spectre are vulnerabilities that exploit out-of-order execution and speculative execution techniques to read memory regions that are not accessible with user privileges. OS patches were released to prevent this attack, but older systems without appropriate patches are still vulnerable. Currently, there are some research to detect Meltdown and Spectre attacks, but most of them proposed dynamic analysis methods. Therefore, this paper proposes a binary signature that can be used to detect Meltdown and Spectre malware without executing them. For this, we collected 13 malicious codes from GitHub and performed binary pattern analysis. Based on this, we proposed a static detection method for Meltdown and Spectre malware. Our results showed that the method identified all the 19 attack files with 0.94% false positive rate when applied to 2,317 normal files.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.55-63
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• 2021

Recently, the incidence rate of malicious codes is over tens of thousands of cases, and it is known that it is almost impossible to detect/respond all of them. This study proposes a method for detecting multiple behavior patterns based on a graph database as a new method for dealing with malicious codes. Traditional dynamic analysis techniques and has applied a method to design and analyze graphs of representative associations malware pattern(process, PE, registry, etc.), another new graph model. As a result of the pattern verification, it was confirmed that the behavior of the basic malicious pattern was detected and the variant attack behavior(at least 5 steps), which was difficult to analyze in the past. In addition, as a result of the performance analysis, it was confirmed that the performance was improved by about 9.84 times or more compared to the relational database for complex patterns of 5 or more steps.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.197-202
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• 2022

IoT (Internet of Things) devices are being attacked by malware due to many security vulnerabilities, such as the use of weak IDs/passwords and unauthenticated firmware updates. However, due to the diversity of CPU architectures, it is difficult to set up a malware analysis environment and design features. In this paper, we design time series features using the byte sequence of executable files to represent independent features of CPU architectures, and analyze them using recurrent neural networks. The proposed feature is a fixed-length time series pattern extracted from the byte sequence by calculating partial entropy and applying linear interpolation. Temporary changes in the extracted feature are analyzed by RNN and LSTM. In the experiment, the IoT malware detection showed high performance, while low performance was analyzed in the malware family classification. When the entropy patterns for each malware family were compared visually, the Tsunami and Gafgyt families showed similar patterns, resulting in low performance. LSTM is more suitable than RNN for learning temporal changes in the proposed malware features.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.1087-1097
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• 2017

As the penetration rate of smartphones increases, the number of malicious codes targeting smartphones is increasing. I 360 Security 's smartphone malware statistics show that malicious code increased 437 percent in the first quarter of 2016 compared to the fourth quarter of 2015. In particular, malicious applications, which are the main means of distributing malicious code on smartphones, are aimed at leakage of user information, data destruction, and money withdrawal. Often, it is operated by an API, which is an interface that allows you to control the functions provided by the operating system or programming language. In this paper, we propose a mechanism to detect malicious application based on the similarity of API pattern in normal application and malicious application by learning pattern of API in application derived from static analysis. In addition, we show a technique for improving the detection rate and detection rate for each label derived by using the corresponding mechanism for the sample data. In particular, in the case of the proposed mechanism, it is possible to detect when the API pattern of the new malicious application is similar to the previously learned patterns at a certain level. Future researches of various features of the application and applying them to this mechanism are expected to be able to detect new malicious applications of anti-malware system.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.459-469
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• 2023

The number of IoT devices is explosively increasing due to the development of embedded equipment and computer networks. As a result, cyber threats to IoT are increasing, and currently, malicious codes are being distributed and infected to IoT devices and exploited for DDoS. Currently, IoT devices that are the target of such an attack have various installation environments and have limited resources. In addition, IoT devices have a characteristic that once set up, the owner does not care about management. Because of this, IoT devices are becoming a blind spot for management that is easily infected with malicious codes. Because of these difficulties, the threat of malicious codes always exists in IoT devices, and when they are infected, responses are not properly made. In this paper, we will design an malware detection system for IoT in consideration of the characteristics of the IoT environment and present detection rules suitable for use in the system. Using this system, it will be possible to construct an IoT malware detection system inexpensively and efficiently without changing the structure of IoT devices that are already installed and exposed to cyber threats.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.23 no.9
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• pp.141-149
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• 2023

Repacked mobile apps constitute about 78% of all malware of Android, and it greatly affects the technical ecosystem of Android. Although many methods exist for repacked app detection, most of them suffer from performance issues. In this manuscript, a novel method using the Constant Key Point Selection and Limited Binary Pattern (CKPS: LBP) Feature extraction-based Hashing is proposed for the identification of repacked android applications through the visual similarity, which is a notable feature of repacked applications. The results from the experiment prove that the proposed method can effectively detect the apps that are similar visually even that are even under the double fold content manipulations. From the experimental analysis, it proved that the proposed CKPS: LBP method has a better efficiency of detecting 1354 similar applications from a repository of 95124 applications and also the computational time was 0.91 seconds within which a user could get the decision of whether the app repacked. The overall efficiency of the proposed algorithm is 41% greater than the average of other methods, and the time complexity is found to have been reduced by 31%. The collision probability of the Hashes was 41% better than the average value of the other state of the art methods.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.31-40
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• 2024

Recently, static analysis-based signature and pattern detection technologies have limitations due to the advanced IT technologies. Moreover, It is a compatibility problem of multiple architectures and an inherent problem of signature and pattern detection. Malicious codes use obfuscation and packing techniques to hide their identity, and they also avoid existing static analysis-based signature and pattern detection techniques such as code rearrangement, register modification, and branching statement addition. In this paper, We propose an LLVM IR image-based automated static analysis of malicious code technology using machine learning to solve the problems mentioned above. Whether binary is obfuscated or packed, it's decompiled into LLVM IR, which is an intermediate representation dedicated to static analysis and optimization. "Therefore, the LLVM IR code is converted into an image before being fed to the CNN-based transfer learning algorithm ResNet50v2 supported by Keras". As a result, we present a model for image-based detection of malicious code.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.04a
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• pp.501-503
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• 2015

Malicious(악의적인) + Code 즉, 악의적인코드를 포함한 소프트웨어라는 의미로 줄여 Malware(Malicious + Software) 라고 불리는 악성코드는 최근 네트워크와 컴퓨터의 급속한 발전에 따라 기하급수적으로 증가하고 있는 추세이다. 폭발적인 증가율 추세를 보이고 있는 악성코드의 위협을 대비하기 위해 악성코드에 대한 분석이 필요한데 그 분석의 종류로는 초기분석, 동적 분석, 정적분석으로 나누고 장, 단점을 정리하였다. 또한 악성코드 대량화에 따른 효율적인 분석과 빠른 의사결정을 위한 악성코드 유사도에 대한 연구를 소개하고 API Call Sequence와 분류된 API를 이용한 악성행위 유사도 판별법을 제시하고 실험하였다.