Presentation 2019-11-13
The way of analyzing the time series data of system calls and recovering the files infected with ransomeware
Hirotaka Hiraki, Hideya Ochiai, Hiroshi Esaki,
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Abstract(in English) Today, keeping the computer environment safe is a very important issue. Among the malware, it is often difficult in practice to restore a file infected with ransomware that locks and encrypts the target file and requires a ransom instead of decrypting it. In addition, the spread of virtual currency has reduced the risk of attackers being supplemented, and malicious services that sell ransomware software are also available. Therefore, in this paper, we study a method for restoring files infected with ransomware. In the survey, we analyzed the system calls executed by ransomware and found that malicious behaviors tend to be executed periodically or continuously. Based on the investigation, we rewrite the Windows API processing executed by the ransomware to duplicate the file, and then aim to restore it by analyzing the time series data of system calls and identifying normal processing. Furthermore, malware functions have improved in recent years, and some have anti-debug functions that detect that they are subject to analysis, so analysis must be performed without being detected by ransomware. In this study, we propose a method using BitVisor, a hypervisor with low overhead.
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Keyword(in English) Ransomware / BitVisor / Anti-Debug / System call / Malware
Paper # ICSS2019-60
Date of Issue 2019-11-06 (ICSS)

Conference Information
Committee ICSS
Conference Date 2019/11/13(1days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) MRT Terrace(Miyazaki)
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Information Communication System Security, etc.
Chair Hiroki Takakura(NII)
Vice Chair Katsunari Yoshioka(Yokohama National Univ.) / Kazunori Kamiya(NTT)
Secretary Katsunari Yoshioka(NICT) / Kazunori Kamiya(KDDI labs.)
Assistant Keisuke Kito(Mitsubishi Electric) / Toshihiro Yamauchi(Okayama Univ.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Information and Communication System Security
Language JPN
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Title (in English) The way of analyzing the time series data of system calls and recovering the files infected with ransomeware
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Ransomware
Keyword(2) BitVisor
Keyword(3) Anti-Debug
Keyword(4) System call
Keyword(5) Malware
1st Author's Name Hirotaka Hiraki
1st Author's Affiliation The University of Tokyo(Tokyo Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Hideya Ochiai
2nd Author's Affiliation The University of Tokyo(Tokyo Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Hiroshi Esaki
3rd Author's Affiliation The University of Tokyo(Tokyo Univ.)
Date 2019-11-13
Paper # ICSS2019-60
Volume (vol) vol.119
Number (no) ICSS-288
Page pp.pp.1-5(ICSS),
#Pages 5
Date of Issue 2019-11-06 (ICSS)