Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
12-2009
Abstract
With the advance of packing techniques, a few generic and automatic unpackers have been proposed. These unpackers are designed to automatically unpack packed binaries without specific knowledge of the packing techniques used. In this paper, we present an automatic packer with which packed malware forges spurious unpacking behaviors that lead to a denial-of-service attack on host-based generic unpackers. We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of the proposed packer and malware produced using the proposed packer, and show the success of denial-of-service attacks on host-based generic unpackers.
Keywords
generic unpacker, denial-of-service attack, spurious unpacking behavior
Discipline
Information Security
Research Areas
Cybersecurity
Publication
Information and Communications Security: 11th International Conference, ICICS 2009, Beijing, China, December 14-17: Proceedings
Volume
5927
First Page
241
Last Page
253
ISBN
9783642111457
Identifier
10.1007/978-3-642-11145-7_19
Publisher
Springer
City or Country
Cham
Citation
LIU, Limin; MING, Jiang; WANG, Zhi; GAO, Debin; and JIA, Chunfu.
Denial-of-Service Attacks on Host-Based Generic Unpackers. (2009). Information and Communications Security: 11th International Conference, ICICS 2009, Beijing, China, December 14-17: Proceedings. 5927, 241-253.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/502
Copyright Owner and License
Publisher
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11145-7_19
Comments
This research was mostly done when the first three authors, Limin Liu, Jiang Ming, and Zhi Wang, were researchers working in Singapore Management University. It was partially supported by National Science Foundation (NSF) China under the agreements 90718005, 70890084/G021102, and 60573015.