• 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.

• Review of KIISC
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.92-98
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• 2016

IT기술이 발달함에 따라서 데이터는 대량화, 다양화 되었다. 그에 따라서 이를 침해하려는 다양한 공격기술들이 등장하고 있다. 특히, 지능형 타깃 지속 공격이라는 APT(Advanced Persistent Threat) 공격은 날로 발전하고 있다. APT공격 중에서도 특히 은닉형 악성코드를 이용한 공격들이 많이 등장하고 있다. 은닉형 악성코드는 사용자가 인식하지 못하도록 보안시스템을 우회하고, 중요 데이터의 수집 및 유출을 위하여 교묘하게 시스템에 숨어들어 악의적인 행위를 하는 형태의 악성코드를 말한다. 이러한 고도화된 악의적인 행위를 하는 악성코드를 탐지하고, 대응하기 위한 기술들은 아직까지 부족한 것이 현실이다. 본 논문에서 대표적인 은닉형 악성코드와 공격사례를 분석하여 이를 대응할 수 있는 방안을 고찰해본다. 또한 이를 통하여 고도화된 공격기술들에 대해 예방하고 대응하는 자료로 활용 가능하다.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.193-195
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• 2016

오늘날의 백신은 일반적으로 시그니처 기반 탐지법을 이용한다. 시그니처 탐지기법은 악성코드의 특정한 패턴을 비교하여 효율적이고 오탐율이 낮은 기법이다. 하지만 알려지지 않은 악성코드와 난독화 기법이 적용된 악성코드를 분석하는데 한계가 있다. 악성코드를 실행하여 나타나는 행위를 분석하는 동적분석 방법은 특정한 조건에서만 악성행위를 나타내는 은닉형 악성코드(Evasive Malware)를 탐지하는 데 한계를 지닌다. 본 논문에서는 은닉형 악성코드에 적용된 기법에 관하여 소개하고 나아가 이를 탐지하기 위한 방법에 관한 기술동향을 소개한다.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.366-367
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• 2015

최근 악성코드의 유포 동향을 살펴보면 APT 공격이 많다. 본 논문에서는 악성코드 은닉사이트를 통하여 악성코드가 유포되는 과정과 그 과정에서 공격자가 침투하는 경로나 대표적인 취약점들에 대하여 설명하고 그에 대한 대응책에 대하여 논하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.61-75
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• 2011

Recently, there is significant increasing of massive attacks, which try to infect PCs that visit websites containing pre-implanted malicious code. When visiting the websites, these hidden malicious codes can gain monetary profit or can send various cyber attacks such as BOTNET for DDoS attacks, personal information theft and, etc. Also, this kind of malicious activities is continuously increasing, and their evasion techniques become professional and intellectual. So far, the current signature-based detection to detect websites, which contain malicious codes has a limitation to prevent internet users from being exposed to malicious codes. Since, it is impossible to detect with only blacklist when an attacker changes the string in the malicious codes proactively. In this paper, we propose a novel approach that can detect unknown malicious code, which is not well detected by a signature-based detection. Our method can detect new malicious codes even though the codes' signatures are not in the pattern database of Anti-Virus program. Moreover, our method can overcome various obfuscation techniques such as the frequent change of the included redirection URL in the malicious codes. Finally, we confirm that our proposed system shows better detection performance rather than MC-Finder, which adopts pattern matching, Google's crawling based malware site detection, and McAfee.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2019.01a
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• pp.119-122
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• 2019

최근 웹 변조 공격은 대형 포탈, 은행, 학교 등 접속자가 많은 홈페이지에 악성 URL을 불법 삽입하여 해당 URL을 통해 접속자 PC에 자동으로 악성코드 유포하고 대규모 봇넷(botnet)을 형성한 후 DDoS 공격을 수행하거나 감염 PC들의 정보를 지속적으로 유출하는 형태로 수행된다. 이때, 홈페이지에 삽입되는 악성 URL은 탐지가 어렵도록 Javascript 난독화 기법(obfuscation technique) 등으로 은밀히 삽입된다. 본 논문에서는 웹 소스코드에 은닉된 악성 Javascript URL들에 대한 일괄 점검체계를 제안하며, 구현된 점검체계의 prototype을 활용하여 점검성능에 대한 시험결과를 제시한다.

• Journal of Internet of Things and Convergence
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2023

Cases in which personal terminals or servers are infected by ransomware are rapidly increasing. Ransomware uses a self-developed encryption module or combines existing symmetric key/public key encryption modules to illegally encrypt files stored in the victim system using a key known only to the attacker. Therefore, in order to decrypt it, it is necessary to know the value of the key used, and since the process of finding the decryption key takes a lot of time, financial costs are eventually paid. At this time, most of the ransomware malware is included in a hidden form in binary files, so when the program is executed, the user is infected with the malicious code without even knowing it. Therefore, in order to respond to ransomware attacks in the form of binary files, it is necessary to identify the encryption module used. Therefore, in this study, we developed a mechanism that can detect and identify by reverse analyzing the encryption module applied to the malicious code hidden in the binary file.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.41-53
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• 2012

The technologies used by the malicious codes have been being advanced and complicated through a merge of the existing techniques, while the damages by the malicious codes are moving from individuals and industries to organizations and countries. In this situation, the security experts are corresponding with the static analysis and the dynamic analysis such as signature searching and reverse engineering, respectively. However, they have had a hard time to respond against the obfuscated intelligent new zero day malicious codes. Therefore, it is required to prepare a process for a preliminary investigation and consequent detailed investigation on the infection sequence and the hiding mechanism to neutralize the malicious code. In this paper, we studied the formalization of the process against the infection sequence and the file hiding techniques with an empirical application to the Rustock malicious code that is most notorious as a spammer. Using the result, it is expected to promptly respond to newly released malicious codes.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.488-494
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• 2012

This paper classifies the self-defense techniques used by the malicious software based on their approaches, introduces the packing technique as one of the code protection methods and proposes a way to quickly analyze the packed malicious codes. Packing technique hides a malicious code and restore it at runtime. To analyze a packed code, it is initially required to find the entry point after restoration. To find the entry point, it has been used reversing the packing routine in which a jump instruction branches to the entry point. However, the reversing takes too much time because the packing routine is usually obfuscated. Instead of reversing the routine, this paper proposes an idea to search some features of the startup code in the standard library used to generate the malicious code. Through an implementation and a consequent empirical study, it is proved that the proposed approach is able to analyze malicious codes faster.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.838-844
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• 2010

This paper introduces Stuxnet, a malicious ware that presently stimulates severity of the cyber warfare worldwide, analyses how it propagates and what it affects if infected and proposes a process to cure infected systems according to its organization. Malicious wares such as Stuxnet secretes themselves within the system during propagation and it is required to analyze file hiding techniques they use to detect and remove them. According to the result of the analysis in this paper, Stuxnet uses the library hooking technique and the file system filter driver technique on both user level and kernel level, respectively, to hide its files. Therefore, this paper shows the results of the Stuxnet's file hiding approach and proposes an idea for countermeasure to neutralize it. A pilot implementation of the idea afterward shows that the stealthing techniques of Stuxnet are removed by the implementation.