International journal of advanced smart convergence

The Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication (한국인터넷방송통신학회)
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Covert Channel Based on Instruction Gadgets in Smart Sensing Devices

  • Ho, Jun-Won (Department of Information Security, Seoul Women's University)
  • Received : 2017.09.10
  • Accepted : 2017.11.11
  • Published : 2017.12.31
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Abstract

In this paper, we design a covert channel based on instruction gadgets in smart sensing devices. Unlike the existing convert channels that usually utilize diverse physical characteristics or user behaviors or sensory data of smart sensing devices, we show that instruction gadgets could be exploited for covert channel establishment in smart sensing devices. In our devised covert channels, trojan smart sensing devices exchange attack packets in such a way that they encode an attack bit in attack packet to a series of addresses of instruction gadgets and decode an attack bit from a series of addresses of instruction gadgets.

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