Detecting malicious SQL

  • Authors:
  • José Fonseca;Marco Vieira;Henrique Madeira

  • Affiliations:
  • ESTG-ISUC, University of Coimbra, Portugal;CISUC, University of Coimbra, Portugal;CISUC, University of Coimbra, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • TrustBus'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Web based applications often have vulnerabilities that can be exploited to launch SQL-based attacks. In fact, web application developers are normally concerned with the application functionalities and can easily neglect security aspects. The increasing number of web attacks reported every day corroborates that this attack-prone scenario represents a real danger and is not likely to change favorably in the future. However, the main problem resides in the fact that most of the SQL-based attacks cannot be detected by typical intrusion detection systems (IDS) at network or operating system level. In this paper we propose a database level IDS to concurrently detect malicious database operations. The proposed IDS is based on a comprehensive anomaly detection scheme that checks SQL commands to detect SQL injection and analyses transactions to detect more elaborate data-centric attacks, including insider attacks.