Overview
- Examines stealthy peripheral-based attacks on host computers
- Presents a new approach to detecting such attacks
- Offers an innovative new runtime detector for malware detection
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: T-Labs Series in Telecommunication Services (TLABS)
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About this book
This work addresses stealthy peripheral-based attacks on host computers and presents a new approach to detecting them. Peripherals can be regarded as separate systems that have a dedicated processor and dedicated runtime memory to handle their tasks. The book addresses the problem that peripherals generally communicate with the host via the host’s main memory, storing cryptographic keys, passwords, opened files and other sensitive data in the process – an aspect attackers are quick to exploit.
Here, stealthy malicious software based on isolated micro-controllers is implemented to conduct an attack analysis, the results of which provide the basis for developing a novel runtime detector. The detector reveals stealthy peripheral-based attacks on the host’s main memory by exploiting certain hardware properties, while a permanent and resource-efficient measurement strategy ensures that the detector is also capable of detecting transient attacks, which can otherwise succeed when the applied strategy only measures intermittently. Attackers exploit this strategy by attacking the system in between two measurements and erasing all traces of the attack before the system is measured again.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Detecting Peripheral-based Attacks on the Host Memory
Authors: Patrick Stewin
Series Title: T-Labs Series in Telecommunication Services
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13515-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-13514-4Published: 14 January 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38618-8Published: 24 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-13515-1Published: 27 December 2014
Series ISSN: 2192-2810
Series E-ISSN: 2192-2829
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 108
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
Topics: Communications Engineering, Networks, Input/Output and Data Communications, Systems and Data Security