NDLI: A game-theoretic approach for deceiving Remote Operating System Fingerprinting

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Rahman, M.A. Manshaei, M.H. Al-Shaer, E.
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Software & Inf. Syst., Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA (Rahman, M.A.; Manshaei, M.H.; Al-Shaer, E.)
Abstract	Remote Operating System (OS) Fingerprinting is a precursory step for launching attacks on the Internet. As a precaution against potential attacks, a remote machine can take a proactive counter-strategy to deceive fingerprinters. This is done by normalizing or mystifying the distinguishing behaviors in the packets. However, the unified modification causes significant performance degradation to benign clients. Using a game-theoretic approach, we propose a selective and dynamic mechanism for counter-fingerprinting. We first model and analyze the interaction between a fingerprinter and a target as a signaling game. We derive the Nash equilibrium strategy profiles based on the information gain analysis. Based on our game results, we design DeceiveGame, a mechanism to prevent or to significantly slow down fingerprinting attacks. Our game-theoretic approach appropriately distinguishes a fingerprinter from a benign client and mystifies packets to confuse the fingerprinter, while minimizing the side effects on benign clients. Our performance analysis shows that DeceiveGame can reduce the probability of success of the fingerprinter significantly, without deteriorating the overall performance of other clients.
Starting Page	73
Ending Page	81
File Size	825218
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479908950
DOI	10.1109/CNS.2013.6682694
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-10-14
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Degradation Conferences Games Fingerprint recognition Security IP networks Probes
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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