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Detecting the HTTP-GET Flood Attacks Based on the Access Behavior of Inline Objects in a Web-page Using NetFlow Data

  • Kang, Koo-Hong
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.21 no.7
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2016
  • Nowadays, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on web sites reward attackers financially or politically because our daily lifes tightly depends on web services such as on-line banking, e-mail, and e-commerce. One of DDoS attacks to web servers is called HTTP-GET flood attack which is becoming more serious. Most existing techniques are running on the application layer because these attack packets use legitimate network protocols and HTTP payloads; that is, network-level intrusion detection systems cannot distinguish legitimate HTTP-GET requests and malicious requests. In this paper, we propose a practical detection technique against HTTP-GET flood attacks, based on the access behavior of inline objects in a webpage using NetFlow data. In particular, our proposed scheme is working on the network layer without any application-specific deep packet inspections. We implement the proposed detection technique and evaluate the ability of attack detection on a simple test environment using NetBot attacker. Moreover, we also show that our approach must be applicable to real field by showing the test profile captured on a well-known e-commerce site. The results show that our technique can detect the HTTP-GET flood attack effectively.

Evaluating the web-application resiliency to business-layer DoS attacks

  • Alidoosti, Mitra;Nowroozi, Alireza;Nickabadi, Ahmad
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.42 no.3
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    • pp.433-445
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    • 2020
  • A denial-of-service (DoS) attack is a serious attack that targets web applications. According to Imperva, DoS attacks in the application layer comprise 60% of all the DoS attacks. Nowadays, attacks have grown into application- and business-layer attacks, and vulnerability-analysis tools are unable to detect business-layer vulnerabilities (logic-related vulnerabilities). This paper presents the business-layer dynamic application security tester (BLDAST) as a dynamic, black-box vulnerability-analysis approach to identify the business-logic vulnerabilities of a web application against DoS attacks. BLDAST evaluates the resiliency of web applications by detecting vulnerable business processes. The evaluation of six widely used web applications shows that BLDAST can detect the vulnerabilities with 100% accuracy. BLDAST detected 30 vulnerabilities in the selected web applications; more than half of the detected vulnerabilities were new and unknown. Furthermore, the precision of BLDAST for detecting the business processes is shown to be 94%, while the generated user navigation graph is improved by 62.8% because of the detection of similar web pages.

Distributed Attack Analysis and Countermeasure (분산처리 공격에 대한 방어방법 연구)

  • Shin, Miyea
    • Journal of Convergence Society for SMB
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.19-23
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    • 2015
  • Distributed Denial of Service attack is a form of denial of service attacks, the attacker to attack a place in a number of points of attack by a wide variety of forms over the network to perform a service on a point attack . Do not use a specific server or client attempts to make a connection to many services available that prevents this attack and so normally used . Corresponding methods of DDoS attacks has a corresponding managerial aspects and technical aspects of the proposed two.

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Development of a String Injection Vulnerability Analyzer for Web Application Programs (웹 응용 프로그램의 문자열 삽입 보안 취약성 분석기 개발)

  • Ahn, Joon-Seon;Kim, Yeong-Min;Jo, Jang-Wu
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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    • v.15A no.3
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    • pp.181-188
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    • 2008
  • Nowadays, most web sites are developed using dynamic web pages where web pages are generated and transmitted by web application programs. Therefore, the ratio of attacks injecting malevolent strings to vulnerable web applications is increasing. In this paper, we present a static program analyzer which analyzes whether a web application program has vulnerabilities to the SQL injection attack and the cross site scripting(XSS) attack. To analyze programs using abstract interpretation framework, we designed an abstract domain which models potential string set along with excluded strings and developed an abstract interpreter for the PHP language. Also, based on them, we implemented a static analyzer. According to our experiments, our analyzer has competitive analysis speed and accuracy compared with related research results.

High-Speed Search Mechanism based on B-Tree Index Vector for Huge Web Log Mining and Web Attack Detection (대용량 웹 로그 마이닝 및 공격탐지를 위한 B-트리 인덱스 벡터 기반 고속 검색 기법)

  • Lee, Hyung-Woo;Kim, Tae-Su
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.11 no.11
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    • pp.1601-1614
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    • 2008
  • The number of web service users has been increased rapidly as existing services are changed into the web-based internet applications. Therefore, it is necessary for us to use web log pre-processing technique to detect attacks on diverse web service transactions and it is also possible to extract web mining information. However, existing mechanisms did not provide efficient pre-processing procedures for a huge volume of web log data. In this paper, we proposed both a field based parsing and a high-speed log indexing mechanism based on the suggested B-tree Index Vector structure for performance enhancement. In experiments, the proposed mechanism provides an efficient web log pre-processing and search functions with a session classification. Therefore it is useful to enhance web attack detection function.

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A Study of Web Site Hacking Through Vulnerability Analysis (취약점 분석을 통한 Web Site 해킹 연구)

  • Song, Jin-Young;Park, Dea-Woo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2010.05a
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    • pp.303-306
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    • 2010
  • Personal information being leaked, and personal assets that through a malicious web site for hackers to exploit. Other confidential information via the web site of the country, and your personal information by illegally accessing the data has been obtained who Hacker forces are operating in some countries. Due to the problem of web site management has many vulnerabilities that web sites, as well as programs. In this paper, in the trend world, as well as domestic XSS, SQL Injection, Web Shell analysis of the vulnerability to attacks and XSS, SQL Injection, Web Shell is a direct attack to attack. Security measures are presented what after the attack demonstrated the hack to data collection, analysis. In this study, web site management, web site security and safety can be improved and research will contribute.

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Effect of countermeasures on the galloping instability of a long-span suspension footbridge

  • Ma, Ruwei;Zhou, Qiang;Li, Mingshui
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.30 no.5
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    • pp.499-509
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    • 2020
  • The aeroelastic stability of a long-span suspension footbridge with a bluff deck (prototype section) was examined through static and dynamic wind tunnel tests using a 1:10 scale sectional model of the main girder, and the corresponding aerodynamic countermeasures were proposed in order to improve the stability. First, dynamic tests of the prototype sectional model in vertical and torsional motions were carried out at three attack angles (α = 3°, 0°, -3°). The results show that the galloping instability of the sectional model occurs at α = 3° and 0°, an observation that has never been made before. Then, the various aerodynamic countermeasures were examined through the dynamic model tests. It was found that the openings set on the vertical web of the prototype section (web-opening section) mitigate the galloping completely for all three attack angles. Finally, static tests of both the prototype and web-opening sectional models were performed to obtain the aerodynamic coefficients, which were further used to investigate the galloping mechanism by applying the Den Hartog criterion. The total damping of the prototype and web-opening models were obtained with consideration of the structural and aerodynamic damping. The total damping of the prototype model was negative for α = 0° to 7°, with the minimum value being -1.07%, suggesting the occurrence of galloping, while that of the web-opening model was positive for all investigated attack angles of α = -12° to 12°.

User Behavior Based Web Attack Detection in the Face of Camouflage (정상 사용자로 위장한 웹 공격 탐지 목적의 사용자 행위 분석 기법)

  • Shin, MinSik;Kwon, Taekyoung
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.365-371
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    • 2021
  • With the rapid growth in Internet users, web applications are becoming the main target of hackers. Most previous WAFs (Web Application Firewalls) target every single HTTP request packet rather than the overall behavior of the attacker, and are known to be difficult to detect new types of attacks. In this paper, we propose a web attack detection system based on user behavior using machine learning to detect attacks of unknown patterns. In order to define user behavior, we focus on features excluding areas where an attacker can camouflage as a normal user. The experimental results shows that by using the path and query information to define users' behaviors, best results for an accuracy of 99% with Decision forest.

Design and Implementation of Advanced Web Log Preprocess Algorithm for Rule based Web IDS (룰 기반 웹 IDS 시스템을 위한 효율적인 웹 로그 전처리 기법 설계 및 구현)

  • Lee, Hyung-Woo
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.9 no.5
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    • pp.23-34
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    • 2008
  • The number of web service user is increasing steadily as web-based service is offered in various form. But, web service has a vulnerability such as SQL Injection, Parameter Injection and DoS attack. Therefore, it is required for us to develop Web IDS system and additionally to offer Rule-base intrusion detection/response mechanism against those attacks. However, existing Web IDS system didn't correspond properly on recent web attack mechanism because they didn't including suitable pre-processing procedure on huge web log data. Therfore, we propose an efficient web log pre-processing mechanism for enhancing rule based detection and improving the performance of web IDS base attack response system. Proposed algorithm provides both a field unit parsing and a duplicated string elimination procedure on web log data. And it is also possible for us to construct improved web IDS system.

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Defending HTTP Web Servers against DDoS Attacks through Busy Period-based Attack Flow Detection

  • Nam, Seung Yeob;Djuraev, Sirojiddin
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.8 no.7
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    • pp.2512-2531
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    • 2014
  • We propose a new Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) defense mechanism that protects http web servers from application-level DDoS attacks based on the two methodologies: whitelist-based admission control and busy period-based attack flow detection. The attack flow detection mechanism detects attach flows based on the symptom or stress at the server, since it is getting more difficult to identify bad flows only based on the incoming traffic patterns. The stress is measured by the time interval during which a given client makes the server busy, referred to as a client-induced server busy period (CSBP). We also need to protect the servers from a sudden surge of attack flows even before the malicious flows are identified by the attack flow detection mechanism. Thus, we use whitelist-based admission control mechanism additionally to control the load on the servers. We evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme via simulation and experiment. The simulation results show that our defense system can mitigate DDoS attacks effectively even under a large number of attack flows, on the order of thousands, and the experiment results show that our defense system deployed on a linux machine is sufficiently lightweight to handle packets arriving at a rate close to the link rate.