NDLI: SubVirt: implementing malware with virtual machines

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	King, S.T. Chen, P.M.
Copyright Year	2006
Description	Author affiliation: Michigan Univ. (King, S.T.; Chen, P.M.)
Abstract	Attackers and defenders of computer systems both strive to gain complete control over the system. To maximize their control, both attackers and defenders have migrated to low-level, operating system code. In this paper, we assume the perspective of the attacker, who is trying to run malicious software and avoid detection. By assuming this perspective, we hope to help defenders understand and defend against the threat posed by a new class of rootkits. We evaluate a new type of malicious software that gains qualitatively more control over a system. This new type of malware, which we call a virtual-machine based rootkit (VMBR), installs a virtual-machine monitor underneath an existing operating system and hoists the original operating system into a virtual machine. Virtual-machine based rootkits are hard to detect and remove because their state cannot be accessed by software running in the target system. Further, VMBRs support general-purpose malicious services by allowing such services to run in a separate operating system that is protected from the target system. We evaluate this new threat by implementing two proof-of-concept VMBRs. We use our proof-of-concept VMBRs to subvert Windows XP and Linux target systems, and we implement four example malicious services using the VMBR platform. Last, we use what we learn from our proof-of-concept VMBRs to explore ways to defend against this new threat. We discuss possible ways to detect and prevent VMBRs, and we implement a defense strategy suitable for protecting systems against this threat
Sponsorship	IBM Corp
Starting Page	14
Ending Page	327
File Size	405266
Page Count	314
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769525741
ISSN	10816011
DOI	10.1109/SP.2006.38
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2006-05-21
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Virtual machining Control systems Operating systems Security Protection Kernel Intrusion detection Data structures Detectors Jacobian matrices
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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