• 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.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.19C no.1
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• pp.47-54
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• 2012

Sharing cross-site resources has been adopted by many recent websites in the forms of service-mashup and social network services. In this change, exploitation of the new vulnerabilities increases, which includes inserting malicious codes into the interaction points between clients and services instead of attacking the websites directly. In this paper, we present a system model to identify malicious script codes in the web contents by means of a remote verification while the web contents downloaded from multiple trusted origins are executed in a client's browser space. Our system classifies verification items according to the origin of request based on the information on the service code implementation and stores the verification results into three databases composed of white, gray, and black lists. Through the experimental evaluations, we have confirmed that our system provides clients with increased security by effectively detecting malicious scripts in the mashup web environment.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.19-26
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• 2019

At the opening ceremony of 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, an unknown cyber-attack occurred. The malicious code used in the attack is based on in-memory malware, which differs from other malicious code in its concealed location and is spreading rapidly to be found in more than 140 banks, telecommunications and government agencies. In-memory malware accounts for more than 15% of all malicious codes, and it does not store its own information in a non-volatile storage device such as a disk but resides in a RAM, a volatile storage device and penetrates into well-known processes (explorer.exe, iexplore.exe, javaw.exe). Such characteristics make it difficult to analyze it. The most recently released in-memory malicious code bypasses the endpoint protection and detection tools and hides from the user recognition. In this paper, we propose a method to efficiently extract the payload by unpacking injection through IDA Pro debugger for Dorkbot and Erger, which are in-memory malicious codes.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.869-879
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• 2022

Through this study, we discovered that among three types of compressed data blocks generated through the Deflate algorithm, No-Payload Non-Compressed Block type (NPNCB) which has no literal data can be randomly generated and inserted between normal compressed blocks. In the header of the non-compressed block, there is a data area that exists only for byte alignment, and we called this area as DBA (Disposed Bit Area), where an attacker can hide various malicious codes and data. Finally we found the vulnerability that hides malicious codes or arbitrary data through inserting NPNCBs with infected DBA between normal compressed blocks according to a pre-designed attack scenario. Experiments show that even though contaminated NPNCB blocks were inserted between normal compressed blocks, commercial programs decoded normally contaminated zip file without any warning, and malicious code could be executed by the malicious decoder.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.629-635
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• 2022

Cyber threats are also increasing with recent social changes and the development of ICT technology. Malicious codes used in cyber threats are becoming more advanced and intelligent, such as analysis environment avoidance technology, concealment, and fileless distribution, to make analysis difficult. Machine learning technology is being used to effectively analyze these malicious codes, but a lot of effort is needed to increase the accuracy of classification. In this paper, we propose a malicious code detection technology based on API call interval characteristics to improve the classification performance of machine learning. The proposed technology uses API call characteristics for each section and entropy of binary to separate characteristic factors into sections based on the extraction malicious code and API call order of normal binary. It was verified that malicious code can be well analyzed using the support vector machine (SVM) algorithm for the extracted characteristic factors.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.8 no.12
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• pp.1849-1856
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• 2013

DOS attack, the short of Denial of Service attack is an internet intrusion technique which harasses service availability of legitimate users. To respond the DDoS attack, a lot of methods focusing attack source, target and intermediate network, have been proposed, but there have not been a clear solution. In this paper, we purpose the prevention of malicious activity and early detection of DDoS attack by detecting and removing the activity of botnets, or other malicious codes. For the purpose, the proposed method monitors the network traffic, especially DSN traffic, which is originated from botnets or malicious codes.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.25-32
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• 2019

While the development of the Internet has made information more accessible, this also has provided a variety of intrusion paths for malicious programs. Traditional Signature-based malware-detectors cannot identify new malware. Although Dynamic Analysis may analyze new malware that the Signature cannot do, it still is inefficient for detecting variants while most of the behaviors are similar. In this paper, we propose a detection method using behavioral similarity with existing malicious codes, assuming that they have parallel patterns. The proposed method is to extract the behavior targets common to variants and detect programs that have similar targets. Here, we verified behavioral similarities between variants through the conducted experiments with 1,000 malicious codes.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.377-380
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• 2022

An application called an app can be downloaded and used on mobile devices. Among them, Android-based apps have the disadvantage of being implemented on an open source basis and can be exploited by anyone, but unlike iOS, which discloses only a small part of the source code, Android is implemented as an open source, so it can analyze the code. However, since anyone can participate in changing the source code of open source-based Android apps, the number of malicious codes increases and types are bound to vary. Malicious codes that increase exponentially in a short period of time are difficult for humans to detect one by one, so it is efficient to use a technique to detect malicious codes using AI. Most of the existing malicious app detection methods are to extract Features and detect malicious apps. Therefore, three ways to select the optimal feature to be used for learning after feature extraction are proposed. Finally, in the step of modeling with optimal features, ensemble techniques are used in addition to a single model. Ensemble techniques have already shown results beyond the performance of a single model, as has been shown in several studies. Therefore, this paper presents a plan to select the optimal feature and implement a learning model for Android app-based malicious code detection.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2021.10a
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• pp.455-457
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• 2021

App is used on mobile devices such as smartphones and also has malicious code, which can be divided into normal and malicious depending on the presence or absence of hacking codes. Because there are many kind of malware, it is difficult to detect directly, we propose a method to detect malicious app using AI. Most of the existing methods are to detect malicious app by extracting features from malicious app. However, the number of types have increased exponentially, making it impossible to detect malicious code. Therefore, we would like to propose two more methods besides detecting malicious app by extracting features from most existing malicious app. The first method is to learn normal app to extract normal's features, as opposed to the existing method of learning malicious app and find abnormalities (malicious app). The second one is an 'ensemble technique' that combines the existing method with the first proposal. These two methods need to be studied so that they can be used in future mobile environment.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.695-700
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• 2011

Smartphone has formed a new market and introduced a new environment. They have an operating system like PCs, enabling free installation and removal of application programs. As the number of Smartphone users is increasing, more personal information is also exposed to malicious codes. There are problem of modification and deletion of files, battery consumption, and information leakage due to malicious codes. As the needs of Smartphone antivirus solutions are increasing, the antivirus solutions should be evaluated with quality characteristics. In this paper, we propose an effective evaluation method for functionality and performance of Smartphone antivirus solutions, and the best practices for evaluation.