Presentation 2021-03-05
Analysis of Attack Activities for Honeypot Installation in Ethereum Network.
Chin Kota, Omote Kazumasa,
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Abstract(in English) In recent years, cryptocurrencies based on blockchain have been attracting much attention, and related research has reported attacks targeting configuration vulnerable nodes in the Ethereum. Related research used a method called honeypots to observe the attack activities of malicious users. But long-term observation by honeypots is difficult because the cost of maintaining honeypots is high. In this paper, we focus on the analysis of behavior by malicious users for constructing Ethereum honeypot. More precisely, we revealed pre-investigation that malicious users perform before attacks. And then we showed that the cost of honeypots can be reduced. Also, we show that the number of passwords used in dictionary attacks has increased from about 600 to about 610,000, and attacks to steal mining rewards are actually successful.
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Keyword(in English) Blockchain / Ethereum / JSON-RPC / Honeypot
Paper # IT2020-155,ISEC2020-85,WBS2020-74
Date of Issue 2021-02-25 (IT, ISEC, WBS)

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Committee WBS / IT / ISEC
Conference Date 2021/3/4(2days)
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Place (in English) Online
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Topics (in English) Joint Meeting of WBS, IT, and ISEC
Chair Masanori Hamamura(Kochi Univ. of Tech.) / Tadashi Wadayama(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) / Shoichi Hirose(Univ. of Fukui)
Vice Chair Takashi Shono(INTEL) / Masahiro Fujii(Utsunomiya Univ.) / Tetsuya Kojima(Tokyo Kosen) / Tetsuya Izu(Fujitsu Labs.) / Noboru Kunihiro(Tsukuba Univ.)
Secretary Takashi Shono(Okayama Univ. of Science) / Masahiro Fujii(National Defence Academy) / Tetsuya Kojima(Yamaguchi Univ.) / Tetsuya Izu(Saga Univ.) / Noboru Kunihiro(Tsukuba Univ.)
Assistant Duong Quang Thang(NAIST) / Masafumi Moriyama(NICT) / Masayuki Kinoshita(Chiba Univ. of Tech.) / Takahiro Ohta(Senshu Univ.) / Kazuki Yoneyama(Ibaraki Univ.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Wideband System / Technical Committee on Information Theory / Technical Committee on Information Security
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Analysis of Attack Activities for Honeypot Installation in Ethereum Network.
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Blockchain
Keyword(2) Ethereum
Keyword(3) JSON-RPC
Keyword(4) Honeypot
1st Author's Name Chin Kota
1st Author's Affiliation University of Tsukuba(Univ. Tsukuba)
2nd Author's Name Omote Kazumasa
2nd Author's Affiliation University of Tsukuba(Univ. Tsukuba)
Date 2021-03-05
Paper # IT2020-155,ISEC2020-85,WBS2020-74
Volume (vol) vol.120
Number (no) IT-410,ISEC-411,WBS-412
Page pp.pp.265-272(IT), pp.265-272(ISEC), pp.265-272(WBS),
#Pages 8
Date of Issue 2021-02-25 (IT, ISEC, WBS)