NDLI: Execution Trace-Driven Automated Attack Signature Generation

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Nanda, S. Tzi-cker Chiueh
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	In its most general form, an attack signature is a program that can correctly determine if an input network packet sequence can successfully attack a protected network application. Filter rules used in firewall and network intrusion prevention systems (NIPS) are an abstract form of attack signature. This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of an automated attack signature generation system called Trag, that automatically generates an executable attack signature program from a victim programpsilas source and a given attack input. Trag leverages dynamic data and control dependencies to extract relevant code in the victim program, accurately identifies variable initialization statements that are not executed in the given attack, is able to generate attack signatures for multi-process network applications, and reduces the size of attack signatures by exploiting responses from victim programs. Experiments with a fully working Trag prototype show that Tragpsilas signatures can indeed prevent attacks against multiple production-grade vulnerable server/Web applications, such as apache, wu-ftpd and MyBullentinBoard, with up to 65% reduction in size when compared with the victim program. In terms of performance overhead, the additional latency as observed from the client-side is no more than 25 usec for multi-process Web applications, while the overall throughput remains unaffected.
Starting Page	195
Ending Page	204
File Size	343172
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9780769534473
ISSN	10639527
DOI	10.1109/ACSAC.2008.58
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2008-12-08
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Protection Data mining Filtering Automatic logic units Matched filters Computer security Application software Automatic generation control Size control Prototypes web application security attack signature generation vulnerability signatures execution traces
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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