Presentation 2017-06-08
A First Trend Review of Runtime Packers for IoT Malware
Ryoichi Isawa, Ying Tie, Katsunari Yoshioka, Tao Ban, Daisuke Inoue,
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Abstract(in English) Malicious software (malware) specimens that infect IoT (Internet of Things) devices rapidly increase. If those specimens are packed (compressed and/or encrypted), an analyst should require an analysis method suitable for packed IoT malware. To realize how important analysts are seriously in alarm for packed malware, we conducted a trend review of runtime packers for IoT malware. In this review, we examined 16,402 IoT malware specimens with an entropy analysis to reveal a ratio of packed malware. In addition, we checked how many packers were used for the malware. This trend review shows that 238 specimens out of 16,402 were packed and that five packers were used including UPX. We concludes that analysts currently do not have to be extremely nervous for packed IoT malware.
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Keyword(in English) Internet of Things / Malware analysis / Obfuscation / Packer / ELF format
Paper # IA2017-4,ICSS2017-4
Date of Issue 2017-06-01 (IA, ICSS)

Conference Information
Committee IA / ICSS
Conference Date 2017/6/8(2days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Kochi University of Technolo, Eikokuji Campus
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Internet Security, etc.
Chair Katsuyoshi Iida(Hokkaido Univ.) / Yoshiaki Shiraishi(Kobe Univ.)
Vice Chair Rei Atarashi(IIJ) / Hiroyuki Osaki(Kwansei Gakuin Univ.) / Tomoki Yoshihisa(Osaka Univ.) / Takeshi Ueda(Mitsubishi Electric) / Hiroki Takakura(NII)
Secretary Rei Atarashi(Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.) / Hiroyuki Osaki(TOYOTA-IT) / Tomoki Yoshihisa(Yokohama National Univ.) / Takeshi Ueda(NTT) / Hiroki Takakura
Assistant Kenji Ohira(Tokushima Univ.) / Ryohei Banno(NTT) / Toshiki Watanabe(NEC) / Takahiro Kasama(NICT) / Akira Yamada(KDDI labs.)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Internet Architecture / Technical Committee on Information and Communication System Security
Language JPN
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
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Title (in English) A First Trend Review of Runtime Packers for IoT Malware
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Internet of Things
Keyword(2) Malware analysis
Keyword(3) Obfuscation
Keyword(4) Packer
Keyword(5) ELF format
1st Author's Name Ryoichi Isawa
1st Author's Affiliation National Institute of Information and Communications Technology(NICT)
2nd Author's Name Ying Tie
2nd Author's Affiliation Yokohama National University(YNU)
3rd Author's Name Katsunari Yoshioka
3rd Author's Affiliation Yokohama National University/National Institute of Information and Communications Technology(YNU/NICT)
4th Author's Name Tao Ban
4th Author's Affiliation National Institute of Information and Communications Technology(NICT)
5th Author's Name Daisuke Inoue
5th Author's Affiliation National Institute of Information and Communications Technology(NICT)
Date 2017-06-08
Paper # IA2017-4,ICSS2017-4
Volume (vol) vol.117
Number (no) IA-78,ICSS-79
Page pp.pp.19-24(IA), pp.19-24(ICSS),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2017-06-01 (IA, ICSS)