A Cross-Platform Study on Emerging Malicious Programs Targeting IoT Devices

Tao BAN; Ryoichi ISAWA; Shin-Ying HUANG; Katsunari YOSHIOKA; Daisuke INOUE

doi:10.1587/transinf.2018OFL0007

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A Cross-Platform Study on Emerging Malicious Programs Targeting IoT Devices

Tao BAN, Ryoichi ISAWA, Shin-Ying HUANG, Katsunari YOSHIOKA, Daisuke INOUE

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Along with the proliferation of IoT (Internet of Things) devices, cyberattacks towards them are on the rise. In this paper, aiming at efficient precaution and mitigation of emerging IoT cyberthreats, we present a multimodal study on applying machine learning methods to characterize malicious programs which target multiple IoT platforms. Experiments show that opcode sequences obtained from static analysis and API sequences obtained by dynamic analysis provide sufficient discriminant information such that IoT malware can be classified with near optimal accuracy. Automated and accelerated identification and mitigation of new IoT cyberthreats can be enabled based on the findings reported in this study.

Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E102-D No.9 pp.1683-1685

Publication Date: 2019/09/01

Publicized: 2019/06/21

Online ISSN: 1745-1361

DOI: 10.1587/transinf.2018OFL0007

Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section on Log Data Usage Technology and Office Information Systems)

Category: Cybersecurity

Authors

Tao BAN
  National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Ryoichi ISAWA
  National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Shin-Ying HUANG
  Institute for Information Industry
Katsunari YOSHIOKA
  National Institute of Information and Communications Technology,Yokohama National University
Daisuke INOUE
  National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

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IoT security, IoT malware, malware analysis, malware classification

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Tao BAN, Ryoichi ISAWA, Shin-Ying HUANG, Katsunari YOSHIOKA, Daisuke INOUE, "A Cross-Platform Study on Emerging Malicious Programs Targeting IoT Devices" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information, vol. E102-D, no. 9, pp. 1683-1685, September 2019, doi: 10.1587/transinf.2018OFL0007.
Abstract: Along with the proliferation of IoT (Internet of Things) devices, cyberattacks towards them are on the rise. In this paper, aiming at efficient precaution and mitigation of emerging IoT cyberthreats, we present a multimodal study on applying machine learning methods to characterize malicious programs which target multiple IoT platforms. Experiments show that opcode sequences obtained from static analysis and API sequences obtained by dynamic analysis provide sufficient discriminant information such that IoT malware can be classified with near optimal accuracy. Automated and accelerated identification and mitigation of new IoT cyberthreats can be enabled based on the findings reported in this study.
URL: https://global.ieice.org/en_transactions/information/10.1587/transinf.2018OFL0007/_p

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