Internal Interface Diversification with Multiple Fake Interfaces




Rauti Sampsa, Leppänen Ville

Rajveer Singh Shekhawat et al.

International Conference on Security of Information and Networks

New York, NY

2017

SIN '17 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks

ACM International Conference Proceedings Series

245

250

6

978-1-4503-5303-8

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1145/3136825.3136900

https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/28651179



Malware uses knowledge of well-known interfaces to achieve
its goals. However, if we uniquely diversify these interfaces
in each system, the malware no longer knows the ”language”
of a specific system and it becomes much more difficult for
malicious programs to operate. This paper extends the idea
of interface diversification by presenting a scheme where a
fake original interface and multiple other fake interfaces are
provided along with the valid interface in order to log the
suspicious activity in the system and possibly deceive malware
by initiating fallacious interaction with it. We also
present a proof-of-concept implementation of this scheme in
Linux environment and conduct experiments with it.


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