• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.197-202
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• 2022

IoT (Internet of Things) devices are being attacked by malware due to many security vulnerabilities, such as the use of weak IDs/passwords and unauthenticated firmware updates. However, due to the diversity of CPU architectures, it is difficult to set up a malware analysis environment and design features. In this paper, we design time series features using the byte sequence of executable files to represent independent features of CPU architectures, and analyze them using recurrent neural networks. The proposed feature is a fixed-length time series pattern extracted from the byte sequence by calculating partial entropy and applying linear interpolation. Temporary changes in the extracted feature are analyzed by RNN and LSTM. In the experiment, the IoT malware detection showed high performance, while low performance was analyzed in the malware family classification. When the entropy patterns for each malware family were compared visually, the Tsunami and Gafgyt families showed similar patterns, resulting in low performance. LSTM is more suitable than RNN for learning temporal changes in the proposed malware features.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.459-469
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• 2023

The number of IoT devices is explosively increasing due to the development of embedded equipment and computer networks. As a result, cyber threats to IoT are increasing, and currently, malicious codes are being distributed and infected to IoT devices and exploited for DDoS. Currently, IoT devices that are the target of such an attack have various installation environments and have limited resources. In addition, IoT devices have a characteristic that once set up, the owner does not care about management. Because of this, IoT devices are becoming a blind spot for management that is easily infected with malicious codes. Because of these difficulties, the threat of malicious codes always exists in IoT devices, and when they are infected, responses are not properly made. In this paper, we will design an malware detection system for IoT in consideration of the characteristics of the IoT environment and present detection rules suitable for use in the system. Using this system, it will be possible to construct an IoT malware detection system inexpensively and efficiently without changing the structure of IoT devices that are already installed and exposed to cyber threats.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.291-297
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• 2021

Recently, as the number of new and variant malicious codes has increased exponentially, malware warnings are being issued to PC and smartphone users. Malware is becoming more and more intelligent. Efforts to protect personal information are becoming more and more important as social issues are used to stimulate the interest of PC users and allow users to directly download malicious codes. In this way, it is difficult to prevent malicious code because malicious code infiltrates in various forms. As a countermeasure to solve these problems, many studies are being conducted to apply deep learning. In this paper, we investigate and analyze various deep learning methods to detect and classify malware.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2014.07a
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• pp.365-367
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• 2014

최근 웹 서비스의 증가와 악성코드는 그 수를 판단 할 수 없을 정도로 빠르게 늘어나고 있다. 매년 늘어나는 악성코드는 금전적 이윤 추구가 악성코드의 주된 동기가 되고 있으며 이는 공공기관 및 보안 업체에서도 악성코드를 탐지하기 위한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 실시간으로 패킷을 분석할수 있는 필터링과 웹 크롤링을 통해 도메인 및 하위 URL까지 자동적으로 탐지할 수 있는 악성코드 탐지 시스템을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.51-58
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• 2020

The use of malware in cyber threats continues to be used in all ages, and will continue to be a major attack method even if IT technology advances. Therefore, researches for detecting such malicious codes are constantly tried in various ways. Recently, with the development of AI-related technology, many researches related to machine learning have been conducted to detect malware. In this paper, we propose a method to detect malware using machine learning. For machine learning detection, we create a feature around each call interval, ie Time Interval, in which API calls occur among dynamic analysis data, and then apply the result to machine learning techniques.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.851-865
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• 2021

Enterprise networks in the PyeongChang Winter Olympics were hacked in February 2018. According to a domestic security company's analysis report, attackers destroyed approximately 300 hosts with the aim of interfering with the Olympics. Enterprise have no choice but to rely on digital vaccines since it is overwhelming to analyze all programs executed in the host used by ordinary users. However, traditional vaccines cannot protect the host against variant or new malware because they cannot detect intrusions without signatures for malwares. To overcome this limitation of signature-based detection, there has been much research conducted on the behavior analysis of malwares. However, since most of them rely on a sandbox where only analysis target program is running, we cannot detect malwares intruding the host where many normal programs are running. Therefore, this study proposes a method to detect malware variants in the host through logs rather than the sandbox. The proposed method extracts common behaviors from variants group and finds characteristic behaviors optimized for querying. Through experimentation on 1,584,363 logs, generated by executing 6,430 malware samples, we prove that there exist the common behaviors that variants share and we demonstrate that these behaviors can be used to detect variants.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.69-76
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• 2013

In the recent years, cyber attacks by malicious codes called malware has become a social problem. With the explosive appearance and increase of new malware, innumerable disasters caused by metaphoric malware using the existing malicious codes have been reported. To secure more effective detection of malicious codes, in other words, to make a more accurate judgment as to whether suspicious files are malicious or not, this study introduces the malware analysis system, which is based on a profiling technique using the Finite Automata. This new analysis system enables realtime automatic detection of malware with its optimized partial execution method. In this paper, the functions used within a file are expressed by finite automata to find their correlation, and a realtime malware analysis system enabling us to give an immediate judgment as to whether a file is contaminated by malware is suggested.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.2610-2628
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• 2019

Advanced persistent threats (APTs) are constant attacks of specific targets by hackers using intelligent methods. All current internal infrastructures are constantly subject to APT attacks created by external and unknown malware. Therefore, information security officers require a framework that can assess whether information security systems are capable of detecting and blocking APT attacks. Furthermore, an on-line evaluation of information security systems is required to cope with various malicious code attacks. A regular evaluation of the information security system is thus essential. In this paper, we propose a dynamic updated evaluation framework to improve the detection rate of internal information systems for malware that is unknown to most (over 60 %) existing static information security system evaluation methodologies using non-updated unknown malware.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39C no.8
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• pp.738-745
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• 2014

Recently, mobile users continuously increase, and mobile applications also increase As mobile applications increase, the mobile users used to store sensitive and private information such as Bank information, location information, ID, password on their mobile devices. Therefore, recent malicious application targeted to mobile device instead of PC environment is increasing. In particular, since the Android is an open platform and includes security vulnerabilities, attackers prefer this environment. This paper analyzes the performance of malware detection system applying linear SVM machine learning classifier to detect Android malware application. This paper also performs feature selection in order to improve detection performance.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.9
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• pp.4658-4679
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• 2017

Android is now the most popular smartphone platform and remains rapid growth. There are huge number of sensitive privacy information stored in Android devices. Kinds of methods have been proposed to detect Android malicious applications and protect the privacy information. In this work, we focus on extracting the fine-grained features to maximize the information of Android malware detection, and selecting the least joint features to minimize the number of features. Firstly, permissions and APIs, not only from Android permissions and SDK APIs but also from the developer-defined permissions and third-party library APIs, are extracted as features from the decompiled source codes. Secondly, feature selection methods, including information gain (IG), regularization and particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithms, are used to analyze and utilize the correlation between the features to eliminate the redundant data, reduce the feature dimension and mine the useful joint features. Furthermore, regularization and PSO are integrated to create a new joint feature mining method. Experiment results show that the joint feature mining method can utilize the advantages of regularization and PSO, and ensure good performance and efficiency for Android malware detection.