Crimeware swindling without virtual machines

  • Authors:
  • Vasilis Pappas;Brian M. Bowen;Angelos D. Keromytis

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Columbia University;Department of Computer Science, Columbia University;Department of Computer Science, Columbia University

  • Venue:
  • ISC'10 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Information security
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In previous work, we introduced a bait-injection system designed to delude and detect crimeware by forcing it to reveal itself during the exploitation of captured information. Although effective as a technique, our original system was practically limited, as it was implemented in a personal VM environment. In this paper, we investigate how to extend our system by applying it to personal workstation environments. Adapting our system to such a different environment reveals a number of challenging issues, such as scalability, portability, and choice of physical communication means. We provide implementation details and we evaluate the effectiveness of our new architecture.