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A study on Countermeasures by Detecting Trojan-type Downloader/Dropper Malicious Code

  • Kim, Hee Wan
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.288-294
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    • 2021
  • There are various ways to be infected with malicious code due to the increase in Internet use, such as the web, affiliate programs, P2P, illegal software, DNS alteration of routers, word processor vulnerabilities, spam mail, and storage media. In addition, malicious codes are produced more easily than before through automatic generation programs due to evasion technology according to the advancement of production technology. In the past, the propagation speed of malicious code was slow, the infection route was limited, and the propagation technology had a simple structure, so there was enough time to study countermeasures. However, current malicious codes have become very intelligent by absorbing technologies such as concealment technology and self-transformation, causing problems such as distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS), spam sending and personal information theft. The existing malware detection technique, which is a signature detection technique, cannot respond when it encounters a malicious code whose attack pattern has been changed or a new type of malicious code. In addition, it is difficult to perform static analysis on malicious code to which code obfuscation, encryption, and packing techniques are applied to make malicious code analysis difficult. Therefore, in this paper, a method to detect malicious code through dynamic analysis and static analysis using Trojan-type Downloader/Dropper malicious code was showed, and suggested to malicious code detection and countermeasures.

A Study on Malicious Codes Grouping and Analysis Using Visualization (시각화 기법을 이용한 악성코드 분석 및 분류 연구)

  • Song, In-Soo;Lee, Dong-Hui;Kim, Kui-Nam
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.51-60
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    • 2010
  • The expansion of internet technology has made convenience. On the one hand various malicious code is produced. The number of malicious codes occurrence has dramadically increasing, and new or variant malicious code circulation very serious, So it is time to require analysis about malicious code. About malicious code require set criteria for judgment, malicious code taxonomy using Algorithm of weakness difficult to new or variant malicious code taxonomy but already discovered malicious code taxonomy is effective. Therefore this paper of object is various malicious code analysis besides new or variant malicious code type or form deduction using visualization of strong. Thus this paper proposes a malicious code analysis and grouping method using visualization.

Detection of Malicious Code using Association Rule Mining and Naive Bayes classification (연관규칙 마이닝과 나이브베이즈 분류를 이용한 악성코드 탐지)

  • Ju, Yeongji;Kim, Byeongsik;Shin, Juhyun
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.20 no.11
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    • pp.1759-1767
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    • 2017
  • Although Open API has been invigorated by advancements in the software industry, diverse types of malicious code have also increased. Thus, many studies have been carried out to discriminate the behaviors of malicious code based on API data, and to determine whether malicious code is included in a specific executable file. Existing methods detect malicious code by analyzing signature data, which requires a long time to detect mutated malicious code and has a high false detection rate. Accordingly, in this paper, we propose a method that analyzes and detects malicious code using association rule mining and an Naive Bayes classification. The proposed method reduces the false detection rate by mining the rules of malicious and normal code APIs in the PE file and grouping patterns using the DHP(Direct Hashing and Pruning) algorithm, and classifies malicious and normal files using the Naive Bayes.

Improving Malicious Web Code Classification with Sequence by Machine Learning

  • Paik, Incheon
    • IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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    • v.3 no.5
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    • pp.319-324
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    • 2014
  • Web applications make life more convenient. Many web applications have several kinds of user input (e.g. personal information, a user's comment of commercial goods, etc.) for the activities. On the other hand, there are a range of vulnerabilities in the input functions of Web applications. Malicious actions can be attempted using the free accessibility of many web applications. Attacks by the exploitation of these input vulnerabilities can be achieved by injecting malicious web code; it enables one to perform a variety of illegal actions, such as SQL Injection Attacks (SQLIAs) and Cross Site Scripting (XSS). These actions come down to theft, replacing personal information, or phishing. The existing solutions use a parser for the code, are limited to fixed and very small patterns, and are difficult to adapt to variations. A machine learning method can give leverage to cover a far broader range of malicious web code and is easy to adapt to variations and changes. Therefore, this paper suggests the adaptable classification of malicious web code by machine learning approaches for detecting the exploitation user inputs. The approach usually identifies the "looks-like malicious" code for real malicious code. More detailed classification using sequence information is also introduced. The precision for the "looks-like malicious code" is 99% and for the precise classification with sequence is 90%.

A Study of Multiple Compression for Malicious Code Execution and Concealment (악성코드 실행과 은닉을 위한 다중 압축 연구)

  • Yi, Jeong-Hoon;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.299-302
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    • 2010
  • Recently, the malicious code is not easily detectable in the vaccine for the virus, malicious code as a compressed file by modulation pattern is the tendency to delay. Among the many antivirus engines on the market a compressed file that can be modulated by malicious code, and test whether the pattern will need to know. We cover a multi-compressed files, malicious code modulated secreted by examining patterns of test engine is being detected is through a computer simulation. Analysis of secreted activities of malicious code and infect the host file tampering with the system driver files and registry, it gets registered is analyzed. this study will contribute hidden malicious code inspection and enhance vaccine efficacy in reducing the damage caused by malicious code.

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Research on Mobile Malicious Code Prediction Modeling Techniques Using Markov Chain (마코프 체인을 이용한 모바일 악성코드 예측 모델링 기법 연구)

  • Kim, JongMin;Kim, MinSu;Kim, Kuinam J.
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.19-26
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    • 2014
  • Mobile malicious code is typically spread by the worm, and although modeling techniques to analyze the dispersion characteristics of the worms have been proposed, only macroscopic analysis was possible while there are limitations in predicting on certain viruses and malicious code. In this paper, prediction methods have been proposed which was based on Markov chain and is able to predict the occurrence of future malicious code by utilizing the past malicious code data. The average value of the malicious code to be applied to the prediction model of Markov chain model was applied by classifying into three categories of the total average, the last year average, and the recent average (6 months), and it was verified that malicious code prediction possibility could be increased by comparing the predicted values obtained through applying, and applying the recent average (6 months).

A Method to Collect Trusted Processes for Application Whitelisting in macOS (macOS 운영체제에서 화이트리스트 구축을 위한 신뢰 프로세스 수집 연구)

  • Youn, Jung-moo;Ryu, Jae-cheol
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.397-405
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    • 2018
  • Blacklist-based tools are most commonly used to effectively detect suspected malicious processes. The blacklist-based tool compares the malicious code extracted from the existing malicious code with the malicious code. Therefore, it is most effective to detect known malicious codes, but there is a limit to detecting malicious code variants. In order to solve this problem, the necessity of a white list-based tool, which is the opposite of black list, has emerged. Whitelist-based tools do not extract features of malicious code processes, but rather collect reliable processes and verify that the process that checks them is a trusted process. In other words, if malicious code is created using a new vulnerability or if variant malicious code appears, it is not in the list of trusted processes, so it can effectively detect malicious code. In this paper, we propose a method for effectively building a whitelist through research that collects reliable processes in the macOS operating system.

JsSandbox: A Framework for Analyzing the Behavior of Malicious JavaScript Code using Internal Function Hooking

  • Kim, Hyoung-Chun;Choi, Young-Han;Lee, Dong-Hoon
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.766-783
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    • 2012
  • Recently, many malicious users have attacked web browsers using JavaScript code that can execute dynamic actions within the browsers. By forcing the browser to execute malicious JavaScript code, the attackers can steal personal information stored in the system, allow malware program downloads in the client's system, and so on. In order to reduce damage, malicious web pages must be located prior to general users accessing the infected pages. In this paper, a novel framework (JsSandbox) that can monitor and analyze the behavior of malicious JavaScript code using internal function hooking (IFH) is proposed. IFH is defined as the hooking of all functions in the modules using the debug information and extracting the parameter values. The use of IFH enables the monitoring of functions that API hooking cannot. JsSandbox was implemented based on a debugger engine, and some features were applied to detect and analyze malicious JavaScript code: detection of obfuscation, deobfuscation of the obfuscated string, detection of URLs related to redirection, and detection of exploit codes. Then, the proposed framework was analyzed for specific features, and the results demonstrate that JsSandbox can be applied to the analysis of the behavior of malicious web pages.

MS Office Malicious Document Detection Based on CNN (CNN 기반 MS Office 악성 문서 탐지)

  • Park, Hyun-su;Kang, Ah Reum
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.439-446
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    • 2022
  • Document-type malicious codes are being actively distributed using attachments on websites or e-mails. Document-type malicious code is relatively easy to bypass security programs because the executable file is not executed directly. Therefore, document-type malicious code should be detected and prevented in advance. To detect document-type malicious code, we identified the document structure and selected keywords suspected of being malicious. We then created a dataset by converting the stream data in the document to ASCII code values. We specified the location of malicious keywords in the document stream data, and classified the stream as malicious by recognizing the adjacent information of the malicious keywords. As a result of detecting malicious codes by applying the CNN model, we derived accuracies of 0.97 and 0.92 in stream units and file units, respectively.

A Study on Analysis of Malicious Code Behavior Information for Predicting Security Threats in New Environments

  • Choi, Seul-Ki;Lee, Taejin;Kwak, Jin
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.1611-1625
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    • 2019
  • The emergence of new technologies and devices brings a new environment in the field of cyber security. It is not easy to predict possible security threats about new environment every time without special criteria. In other words, most malicious codes often reuse malicious code that has occurred in the past, such as bypassing detection from anti-virus or including additional functions. Therefore, we are predicting the security threats that can arise in a new environment based on the history of repeated malicious code. In this paper, we classify and define not only the internal information obtained from malicious code analysis but also the features that occur during infection and attack. We propose a method to predict and manage security threats in new environment by continuously managing and extending.