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Security Improvement of File System Filter Driver in Windows Embedded OS

  • Seong, Yeon Sang;Cho, Chaeho;Jun, Young Pyo;Won, Yoojae
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.834-850
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    • 2021
  • IT security companies have been releasing file system filter driver security solutions based on the whitelist, which are being used by several enterprises in the relevant industries. However, in February 2019, a whitelist vulnerability was discovered in Microsoft Edge browser, which allows malicious code to be executed unknown to users. If a hacker had inserted a program that executed malicious code into the whitelist, it would have resulted in considerable damage. File system filter driver security solutions based on the whitelist are discretionary access control (DAC) models. Hence, the whitelist is vulnerable because it only considers the target subject to be accessed, without taking into account the access rights of the file target object. In this study, we propose an industrial device security system for Windows to address this vulnerability, which improves the security of the security policy by determining not only the access rights of the subject but also those of the object through the application of the mandatory access control (MAC) policy in the Windows industrial operating system. The access control method does not base the security policy on the whitelist; instead, by investigating the setting of the security policy not only for the subject but also the object, we propose a method that provides improved stability, compared to the conventional whitelist method.

Ransomware Detection and Recovery System Based on Cloud Storage through File System Monitoring (파일 시스템 모니터링을 통한 클라우드 스토리지 기반 랜섬웨어 탐지 및 복구 시스템)

  • Kim, Juhwan;Choi, Min-Jun;Yun, Joobeom
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.357-367
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    • 2018
  • As information technology of modern society develops, various malicious codes with the purpose of seizing or destroying important system information are developing together. Among them, ransomware is a typical malicious code that prevents access to user's resources. Although researches on detecting ransomware performing encryption have been conducted a lot in recent years, no additional methods have been proposed to recover damaged files after an attack. Also, because the similarity comparison technique was used without considering the repeated encryption, it is highly likely to be recognized as a normal behavior. Therefore, this paper implements a filter driver to control the file system and performs a similarity comparison method that is verified based on the analysis of the encryption pattern of the ransomware. We propose a system to detect the malicious process of the accessed process and recover the damaged file based on the cloud storage.

Design and Implementation of The Windows Thesaurus WTPM using Filename of Semantics Clustering (파일명의 의미 클러스터링에 의한 윈도우 시소러스 WTPM 설계와 구현)

  • Kim, Man-pil;Tcha, Hong-jun
    • The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.73-79
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    • 2009
  • Analyze semantic of files recorded in the user's computer file system based on C++ program language which pursue modularization program and object-oriented programming language. And this refers to it, it design that clustering semantic of filename with thesaurus for user convenience. WTPM makes User Write Files into Cluster with thesaurus semantic structure and reserved words. WTPM process has designed for Icon file's display Mashup structure and implemented by automation algorithm of classification.

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Analysing and Neutralizing the Stuxnet's Stealthing Techniques (Stuxnet의 파일 은닉 기법 분석 및 무력화 방법 연구)

  • Lee, Kyung-Roul;Yim, Kang-Bin
    • 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.