• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2021.05a
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• pp.109-112
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• 2021

매년 슈퍼컴퓨터를 표적으로 공격이 증가하고 있고, 공격의 방식은 날로 진화하고 있다. 슈퍼컴퓨터를 대상으로 하는 공격에 대응하기 위해 기존의 연구는 공격 특성을 분석하여 맞춤형 대책을 제시하거나 분석을 통해 보안 요구사항을 도출하였다. 하지만 연구과정에서 APT life cycle 관점이 반영되지 않으면, 지능형 지속 위협인 APT를 인지 및 대응하기 어려운 문제점이 있다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해, 본 논문은 APT 시나리오 기반의 위협 모델링 분석을 통해 슈퍼컴퓨터 보안 요구사항을 도출 한다.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.19-27
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• 2022

With the innovative development of ICT technology, hacking techniques of hackers are also evolving into sophisticated and intelligent hacking techniques. Threat detection research to counter these cyber threats was mainly conducted in a passive way through hacking damage investigation and analysis, but recently, the importance of cyber threat information collection and analysis is increasing. A bot-type automation program is a rather active method of extracting malicious code by visiting a website to collect threat information or detect threats. However, this method also has a limitation in that it cannot prevent hacking damage because it is a method to identify hacking damage because malicious code has already been distributed or after being hacked. Therefore, to overcome these limitations, we propose a model that detects actual threats by acquiring and analyzing threat information while identifying and managing cyber bases. This model is an active and proactive method of collecting threat information or detecting threats outside the boundary such as a firewall. We designed a model for detecting threats using cyber strongholds and validated them in the defense environment.

• Review of KIISC
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.75-80
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• 2019

2018년까지 알려진 표적공격 그룹은 꾸준히 증가하여 현재 155개로 2016년 대비 39개가 증가하였고, 침해사고의 평균 체류시간(dwell-time)은 2016년 172일에서 2018년 204일로 32일이 증가하였다. 점점 다양해지고 심화되고 있는 APT(Advanced Persistent Threat)공격에 대응하기 위하여 국내외 기업들의 사이버 위협 인텔리전스(CTI; Cyber Threat Intelligence) 활용이 증가하고 있는 추세이다. 현재 KISA에서는 글로벌 동향에 발맞춰 CTI를 활용할 수 있는 시스템을 개발 중에 있다. 본 논문에서는 효율적인 CTI 활용을 위한 OSINT(Open Source Intelligence)기반 사이버 위협 정보 수집 및 연관관계 표현 시스템을 소개하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.1129-1135
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• 2016

The NH-NongHyup network and servers were paralyzed in 2011, in the 2013 3.20 cyber attack happened and classified documents of Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. Ltd were leaked on december in 2015. All of them were conducted by a foreign country. These attacks were planned for a long time compared to the script kids attacks and the techniques used were very complex and sophisticated. However, no successful solution has been implemented to defend an APT attacks(Advanced Persistent Threat Attacks) thus far. We will use big data analytics to analyze whether or not APT attacks has occurred. This research is based on the data collected through ISAC monitoring among 3 hierarchical Korean Defense System. First, we will introduce related research about big data analytics and machine learning. Then, we design two big data analytics models to detect an APT attacks. Lastly, we will present an effective response method to address a detected APT attacks.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.1027-1041
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• 2015

Recently, there are rapidly increasing cases of APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) attacks such as Verizon(2010), Nonghyup(2011), SK Communications(2011), and 3.20 Cyber Terror(2013), which cause leak of confidential information and tremendous damage to valuable assets without being noticed. Several anomaly detection technologies were studied to defend the APT attacks, mostly focusing on detection of obvious anomalies based on known malicious codes' signature. However, they are limited in detecting APT attacks and suffering from high false-negative detection accuracy because APT attacks consistently use zero-day vulnerabilities and have long latent period. Detecting APT attacks requires long-term analysis of data from a diverse set of sources collected over the long time, real-time analysis of the ingested data, and correlation analysis of individual attacks. However, traditional security systems lack sophisticated analytic capabilities, compute power, and agility. In this paper, we propose a Fast Data based real-time abnormal behavior detection system to overcome the traditional systems' real-time processing and analysis limitation.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.8908-8914
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• 2015

The Internet continues to grow and develop, but there are going to generate a variety of Internet attacks that exploit it. In the initial Internet environment, the attackers maliciously exploited Internet environments for ostentations and hobbies. but these days many malicious attempts purpose the financial gain so systematic and sophisticated attacks that are associated with various crimes are occurred. The structures, such as viruses and worms were present in the form of one source multi-target before. but recently, APT(Advanced Persistent Threat, intelligent continuous attacks) in the form of multi-source single target is dealing massive damage. The performance evaluation analyzed whether to generate audit data and detect integrity infringement, and false positives for normal traffic, process detecting and blocking functions, and Agent policy capabilities with respect to the application availability.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.1141-1151
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• 2018

In an APT attack, the communication stage between infected hosts and C&C(Command and Control) server is the key stage for intrusion into the attack target. Attackers can control multiple infected hosts by the C&C Server and direct intrusion and exploitation. If the C&C Server is exposed at this stage, the attack will fail. Therefore, in recent years, the Domain Generation Algorithm (DGA) has replaced DNS in C&C Server with a short time interval for making detection difficult. In particular, it is very difficult to verify and detect all the newly registered DNS more than 5 million times a day. To solve these problems, this paper proposes a model to judge DGA-DNS detection by the morphological similarity analysis of normal DNS and DGA-DNS, and to determine the sign of APT attack through it, then we verify its validity.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.31-38
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• 2017

As the cyber-attacks through the networks advance, it is difficult for the intrusion detection system based on the simple rules to detect the novel type of attacks such as Advanced Persistent Threat(APT) attack. At present, many types of research have been focused on the application of machine learning techniques to the intrusion detection system in order to detect previously unknown attacks. In the case of using the machine learning techniques, the performance of the intrusion detection system largely depends on the feature set which is used as an input to the system. Generally, more features increase the accuracy of the intrusion detection system whereas they cause a problem when fast responses are required owing to their large elapsed time. In this paper, we present a network intrusion detection system based on artificial neural network, which adopts a multi-objective genetic algorithm to satisfy the both requirements: accuracy, and fast response. The comparison between the proposing approach and previously proposed other approaches is conducted against NSL_KDD data set for the evaluation of the performance of the proposing approach.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.347-363
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• 2019

Malware has its own unique behavior characteristics, like DNA for living things. To respond APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) attacks in advance, it needs to extract behavioral characteristics from malware. To this end, it needs to do classification for each malware based on its behavioral similarity. In this paper, various similarity of Windows malware is estimated; and based on these similarity values, malware's family is predicted. The similarity measures used in this paper are as follows: 'TF-IDF cosine similarity', 'Nilsimsa similarity', 'malware function cosine similarity' and 'Jaccard similarity'. As a result, we find the prediction rate for each similarity measure is widely different. Although, there is no similarity measure which can be applied to malware classification with high accuracy, this result can be helpful to select a similarity measure to classify specific malware family.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2021.10a
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• pp.449-451
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• 2021

Cyber-attacks targeting endpoints have developed sophisticatedly into targeted and intelligent attacks, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) targeting the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has increased accordingly. Machine learning-based Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions combine and complement rule-based conventional security tools to effectively defend against APT attacks are gaining attention. However, universal EDR solutions have a high false positive rate, and needs high-level analysts to monitor and analyze a tremendous amount of alerts. Therefore, the process of optimizing machine learning-based EDR solutions that consider the characteristics and vulnerabilities of IIoT environment is essential. In this study, we analyze the flow and impact of IIoT targeted APT cases and compare the method of machine learning-based APT detection EDR solutions.