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Research on Malicious code hidden website detection method through WhiteList-based Malicious code Behavior Analysis (WhiteList 기반의 악성코드 행위분석을 통한 악성코드 은닉 웹사이트 탐지 방안 연구)

  • Ha, Jung-Woo;Kim, Huy-Kang;Lim, Jong-In
    • 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.

Artificial Intelligence-based Security Control Construction and Countermeasures (인공지능기반 보안관제 구축 및 대응 방안)

  • Hong, Jun-Hyeok;Lee, Byoung Yup
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.531-540
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    • 2021
  • As cyber attacks and crimes increase exponentially and hacking attacks become more intelligent and advanced, hacking attack methods and routes are evolving unpredictably and in real time. In order to reinforce the enemy's responsiveness, this study aims to propose a method for developing an artificial intelligence-based security control platform by building a next-generation security system using artificial intelligence to respond by self-learning, monitoring abnormal signs and blocking attacks.The artificial intelligence-based security control platform should be developed as the basis for data collection, data analysis, next-generation security system operation, and security system management. Big data base and control system, data collection step through external threat information, data analysis step of pre-processing and formalizing the collected data to perform positive/false detection and abnormal behavior analysis through deep learning-based algorithm, and analyzed data Through the operation of a security system of prevention, control, response, analysis, and organic circulation structure, the next generation security system to increase the scope and speed of handling new threats and to reinforce the identification of normal and abnormal behaviors, and management of the security threat response system, Harmful IP management, detection policy management, security business legal system management. Through this, we are trying to find a way to comprehensively analyze vast amounts of data and to respond preemptively in a short time.

A Study on Ransomware Detection Methods in Actual Cases of Public Institutions (공공기관 실제 사례로 보는 랜섬웨어 탐지 방안에 대한 연구)

  • Yong Ju Park;Huy Kang Kim
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.499-510
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    • 2023
  • Recently, an intelligent and advanced cyber attack attacks a computer network of a public institution using a file containing malicious code or leaks information, and the damage is increasing. Even in public institutions with various information protection systems, known attacks can be detected, but unknown dynamic and encryption attacks can be detected when existing signature-based or static analysis-based malware and ransomware file detection methods are used. vulnerable to The detection method proposed in this study extracts the detection result data of the system that can detect malicious code and ransomware among the information protection systems actually used by public institutions, derives various attributes by combining them, and uses a machine learning classification algorithm. Results are derived through experiments on how the derived properties are classified and which properties have a significant effect on the classification result and accuracy improvement. In the experimental results of this paper, although it is different for each algorithm when a specific attribute is included or not, the learning with a specific attribute shows an increase in accuracy, and later detects malicious code and ransomware files and abnormal behavior in the information protection system. It is expected that it can be used for property selection when creating algorithms.

Application of Integrated Security Control of Artificial Intelligence Technology and Improvement of Cyber-Threat Response Process (인공지능 기술의 통합보안관제 적용 및 사이버침해대응 절차 개선 )

  • Ko, Kwang-Soo;Jo, In-June
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.21 no.10
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    • pp.59-66
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    • 2021
  • In this paper, an improved integrated security control procedure is newly proposed by applying artificial intelligence technology to integrated security control and unifying the existing security control and AI security control response procedures. Current cyber security control is highly dependent on the level of human ability. In other words, it is practically unreasonable to analyze various logs generated by people from different types of equipment and analyze and process all of the security events that are rapidly increasing. And, the signature-based security equipment that detects by matching a string and a pattern has insufficient functions to accurately detect advanced and advanced cyberattacks such as APT (Advanced Persistent Threat). As one way to solve these pending problems, the artificial intelligence technology of supervised and unsupervised learning is applied to the detection and analysis of cyber attacks, and through this, the analysis of logs and events that occur innumerable times is automated and intelligent through this. The level of response has been raised in the overall aspect by making it possible to predict and block the continuous occurrence of cyberattacks. And after applying AI security control technology, an improved integrated security control service model was newly proposed by integrating and solving the problem of overlapping detection of AI and SIEM into a unified breach response process(procedure).

A Study on the Application of Cybersecurity by Design of Critical Infrastructure (주요기반시설의 사전예방적보안(Cybersecurity by Design) 적용 방안에 관한 연구)

  • YOO, Jiyeon
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.674-681
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    • 2021
  • Cyber attacks targeting critical infrastructure are on the rise. Critical infrastructure is defined as core infrastructures within a country with a high degree of interdependence between the different structures; therefore, it is difficult to sufficiently protect it using outdated cybersecurity techniques. In particular, the distinction between the physical and logical risks of critical infrastructure is becoming ambiguous; therefore, risk management from a comprehensive perspective must be implemented. Accordingly, as a means of further actively protecting critical infrastructure, major countries have begun to apply their security and cybersecurity systems by design, as a more expanded concept is now being considered. This proactive security approach (CSbD, Cybersecurity by Design) includes not only securing the stability of software (SW) safety design and management, but also physical politics and device (HW) safety, precautionary and blocking measures, and overall resilience. It involves a comprehensive security system. Therefore, this study compares and analyzes security by design measures towards critical infrastructure that are leading the way in the US, Europe, and Singapore. It reflects the results of an analysis of optimal cybersecurity solutions for critical infrastructure. I would like to present a plan for applying by Design.

Application and Development Strategies of a Secure Real-Time Operating System in Weapon Systems within the Defense Sector (국방분야 보안 RTOS의 무기체계 적용 및 발전 방안)

  • Sang-Seung Lee;Keun-Ha Choi;Seung-Hyeon Hwang;Hyun-Ji Kim;Kyung-Deok Seo;Hwa-Eun Seong
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.10 no.5
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    • pp.189-193
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    • 2024
  • As cyber threats increase in the defense sector, the security of weapon system software is becoming increasingly important. Currently, most of the embedded software installed in domestic weapon systems operates based on foreign real-time operating systems(RTOS) that have no security. As a result, the localization and security enhancement of embedded software for weapon systems have emerged as urgent tasks. This study aims to propose the application and development strategies of secure RTOS for weapon systems. To this end, we examined the technological trends of domestic and foreign RTOS and secure RTOS, and analyzed the problems of current embedded software in weapon systems. The results revealed major issues such as low localization, vulnerability to cyber attacks, difficulty in maintenance, increased costs, and loss of opportunities for accumulating technological capabilities. An investigation of the current status of embedded software applied to existing weapon systems found that embedded SW are in operation across all fields, including maneuver, firepower, protection, command and control, communication, naval vessels, and aircraft. Among them, 99% rely on foreign RTOS such as VxWorks. A review of the core functions and applicability of secure RTOS to weapon systems suggests that it can be applied to key areas requiring real-time performance and security, such as fire control, navigation devices, and flight control in existing and future weapon systems. However, ensuring performance and reliability, securing verification and compatibility, and systematic government support were raised as prerequisites.

A Study on Security Vulnerability Management in Electric Power Industry IoT (전력 산업 IoT에서의 보안 취약점 관리에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Sang-Gi;Lee, Sei-Yoon;Kim, Jeong-Chul
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
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    • v.17 no.6
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    • pp.499-507
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    • 2016
  • The era of IoT, which figures exchanging data from the internet between things is coming. Recently, former electric power energy policy paradigm, namely Supply side paradigm, is changing, because electric power energy consumption is rapidly increasing. As new paradigm for this limit, convergence of existing electric power grid and ICT(Information and Communication Technology) will accelerate intellectualization of electric power device, its operation system. This change brought opened electric power grid. Consequently, attacks to the national electric power grid are increasing. On this paper, we will analyze security threats of existing IoT, discuss security weakness on electric power industry IoT and suggest needed security requirements, security technology.

Feature Selection Algorithm for Intrusions Detection System using Sequential Forward Search and Random Forest Classifier

  • Lee, Jinlee;Park, Dooho;Lee, Changhoon
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.11 no.10
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    • pp.5132-5148
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    • 2017
  • Cyber attacks are evolving commensurate with recent developments in information security technology. Intrusion detection systems collect various types of data from computers and networks to detect security threats and analyze the attack information. The large amount of data examined make the large number of computations and low detection rates problematic. Feature selection is expected to improve the classification performance and provide faster and more cost-effective results. Despite the various feature selection studies conducted for intrusion detection systems, it is difficult to automate feature selection because it is based on the knowledge of security experts. This paper proposes a feature selection technique to overcome the performance problems of intrusion detection systems. Focusing on feature selection, the first phase of the proposed system aims at constructing a feature subset using a sequential forward floating search (SFFS) to downsize the dimension of the variables. The second phase constructs a classification model with the selected feature subset using a random forest classifier (RFC) and evaluates the classification accuracy. Experiments were conducted with the NSL-KDD dataset using SFFS-RF, and the results indicated that feature selection techniques are a necessary preprocessing step to improve the overall system performance in systems that handle large datasets. They also verified that SFFS-RF could be used for data classification. In conclusion, SFFS-RF could be the key to improving the classification model performance in machine learning.

Bipartite Preference aware Robust Recommendation System (이분법 선호도를 고려한 강건한 추천 시스템)

  • Lee, Jaehoon;Oh, Hayoung;Kim, Chong-kwon
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.953-960
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    • 2016
  • Due to the prevalent use of online systems and the increasing amount of accessible information, the influence of recommender systems is growing bigger than ever. However, there are several attempts by malicious users who try to compromise or manipulate the reliability of recommender systems with cyber-attacks. By analyzing the ratio of 'sympathy' against 'apathy' responses about a concerned review and reflecting the results in a recommendation system, we could present a way to improve the performance of a recommender system and maintain a robust system. After collecting and applying actual movie review data, we found that our proposed recommender system showed an improved performance compared to the existing recommendation systems.

A Design and Implementation of User Authentication System using Biometric Information (바이오 정보를 이용한 사용자 인증 시스템 설계 및 구현)

  • Lee, Hyung-Woo;Park, Yeong-Joon
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.11 no.9
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    • pp.3548-3557
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    • 2010
  • Security enhancement technologies are required to preventing phishing and pharming attacks on Internet banking. One-time password(OTP) should be used with certificate for enhancing user authentication and security performance. However, existing OTP technique is weak on MITM(Man-In-The-Middle) attack and synchnonization should be provided on OTP system. Therefore, more advanced mechanism such as combining biometic data with OTP can be suggested to enhancing security on authentication system. In this paper, we designed and implemented a multifactor authentication system using one-time biometric template to generate unique authentication data after adapting biometric transform on each user's biometric data.