• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.06d
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• pp.489-494
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• 2007

침입방지 시스템(IPS, Intrusion Prevention System)은 인라인모드(in-line mode)로 네트워크에 설치되어, 네트워크를 지나는 패킷 또는 세션을 검사하여 만일 그 패킷에서 공격이 감지되면 해당 패킷을 폐기하거나 세션을 종료시킴으로서 외부의 침입으로부터 네트워크를 보호하는 시스템을 의미한다. 침입방지 시스템은 크게 두 가지 종류의 동작을 수행한다. 하나는 이미 알려진 공격으로부터 방어하는 시그너처 기반 필터링(signature based filtering)이고 다른 하나는 알려지지 않은 공격이나 비정상 세션으로부터 방어하는 자기 학습 기반의 변칙 탐지 및 방지(anomaly detection and prevention based on selflearning)이다. 시그너처 기반 필터링에서는 침입방지시스템을 통과하는 패킷의 페이로드와 시그너처라고 불리는 공격 패턴들과 비교하여 같으면 그 패킷을 폐기한다. 시그너처의 개수가 증가함에 따라 하나의 들어온 패킷에 대하여 요구되는 패턴 매칭 시간은 증가하게 되어 패킷지연 없이 동작하는 고성능 침입탐지시스템을 개발하는 것이 어렵게 되었다. 공개 침입방지 소프트웨어인 SNORT를 위한 여러 개의 효율적인 패턴 매칭 방식들이 제안되었는데 시그너처들의 공통된 부분에 대해 한번만 매칭을 수행하거나 한 바이트 단위 비교대신 여러 바이트 비교 동작을 수행함으로써 불필요한 매칭동작을 줄이려고 하였다. 본 논문에서는 패턴 매칭 시간을 시그너처의 개수와 무관하게 하기 위하여 시그너처 해싱 기반에 기반한 고성능 침입방지시스템을 제안한다.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.43-53
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• 2007

Intrusion detection system(IDS) has recently evolved while combining signature-based detection approach with anomaly detection approach. Although signature-based IDS tools have been commonly used by utilizing machine learning algorithms, they only detect network intrusions with already known patterns, Ideal IDS tools should always keep the signature database of your detection system up-to-date. The system needs to generate the signatures to detect new possible attacks while monitoring and analyzing incoming network data. In this paper, we propose a new outlier cluster detection algorithm with density (or influence) function, Our method assumes that an outlier is a kind of cluster with similar instances instead of a single object in the context of network intrusion, Through extensive experiments using KDD 1999 Cup Intrusion Detection dataset. we show that the proposed method outperform the conventional outlier detection method using Euclidean distance function, specially when attacks occurs frequently.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.14C no.3 s.113
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• pp.209-220
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• 2007

IPS(Intrusion Prevention Systems), which is installed in inline mode in a network, protects network from outside attacks by inspecting the incoming/outgoing packets and sessions, and dropping the packet or closing the sessions if an attack is detected in the packet. In the signature based filtering, the payload of a packet passing through IPS is matched with some attack patterns called signatures and dropped if matched. As the number of signatures increases, the time required for the pattern matching for a packet increases accordingly so that it becomes difficult to develop a high performance US working without packet delay. In this paper, we propose a high performance IPS based on signature hashing to make the pattern matching time independent of the number of signatures. We implemented the proposed scheme in a Linux kernel module in a PC and tested it using worm generator, packet generator and network performance measure instrument called smart bit. Experimental results show that the performance of existing method is degraded as the number of signatures increases whereas the performance of the proposed scheme is not degraded.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.10 no.6 s.38
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• pp.127-136
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• 2005

Recently, the damages occurring from the malware are increasing rapidly, regardless of continuous development of commercial vaccines . Generally, the vaccine detects well-known malware effectively, but it becomes helpless without any information against the unknown ones. Also, the malware generates its variations fast enough, so that the vaccine always gets behind in its updates. In this paper, we are describing a design and development of malware detection tool, which can detect such malware effectively. We first analyze the general functionality of the malware, and then extracts specific signatures. Such that, we can actively cope with a malware, which may come in previous type, a new type, and any of its mutations also.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.21-29
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• 2006

Recently, illegal manipulation and forgery threats on computer softwares are increasing. Specially, forge the code of program and disrupt normal operation using a malicious loader program against the Internet application client. In this paper, we first analyze and generate signatures of malicious loader detection. And, we propose a method to secure the application client based on profiling which can detect and filter out abnormal malicious loader requests.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.12
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• pp.2333-2340
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• 2017

Recently industry is suffering severe losses of important internal information, and most of the leaks result from the insiders. Thus, various technological counter measures are being studied in order to protect private organization information. In this paper, among various internal information leakage path protection mechanisms, we propose a technique for preventing files which are defined as confidential from being copied or moved through USB. The implemented confidential file loss prevention system is composed of both signature insert manager and confidential file detect manager. The signature insert manager allows a system administrator to insert a special pattern specifying a classified confidential file, while the confidential file detect manager protects confidential file leakage when a user attempts to move or copy a confidential file to the USB memory. This results would be contributed to reducing the damage caused by leakage of confidential files outside of the company via USB.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.43 no.7 s.349
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• pp.93-103
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• 2006

Network solutions for protecting against worm attacks that complement partial end system patch deployment is a pressing problem. In the content-based worm filtering, the challenges focus on the detection accuracy and its performance enhancement problem. We present a worm filter architecture using the bloom filter for deployment at high-speed transit points on the Internet, including firewalls and gateways. Content-based packet filtering at multi-gigabit line rates, in general, is a challenging problem due to the signature explosion problem that curtails performance. We show that for worm malware, in particular, buffer overflow worms which comprise a large segment of recent outbreaks, scalable -- accurate, cut-through, and extensible -- filtering performance is feasible. We demonstrate the efficacy of the design by implementing it on an Intel IXP network processor platform with gigabit interfaces. We benchmark the worm filter network appliance on a suite of current/past worms, showing multi-gigabit line speed filtering prowess with minimal footprint on end-to-end network performance.