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2006 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P'06)
Hamsa: Fast Signature Generation for Zero-day PolymorphicWorms with Provable Attack Resilience
Berkeley/Oakland, California
May 21-May 24
ISBN: 0-7695-2574-1
Zhichun Li, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Manan Sanghi, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Yan Chen, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Ming-Yang Kao, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Brian Chavez, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Zero-day polymorphic worms pose a serious threat to the security of Internet infrastructures. Given their rapid propagation, it is crucial to detect them at edge networks and automatically generate signatures in the early stages of infection. Most existing approaches for automatic signature generation need host information and are thus not applicable for deployment on high-speed network links. In this paper, we propose Hamsa, a network-based automated signature generation system for polymorphic worms which is fast, noise-tolerant and attack-resilient. Essentially, we propose a realistic model to analyze the invariant content of polymorphic worms which allows us to make analytical attack-resilience guarantees for the signature generation algorithm. Evaluation based on a range of polymorphic worms and polymorphic engines demonstrates that Hamsa significantly outperforms Polygraph [16] in terms of efficiency, accuracy, and attack resilience.
Citation:
Zhichun Li, Manan Sanghi, Yan Chen, Ming-Yang Kao, Brian Chavez, "Hamsa: Fast Signature Generation for Zero-day PolymorphicWorms with Provable Attack Resilience," sp, pp.32-47, 2006 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P'06), 2006
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