Adversarial Attack on Microarchitectural Events based Malware Detectors

Adversarial Learning Inspired Emerging Side-Channel Attacks and Defenses

“…As described in the previous sections, I have been working and publishing papers on Malware Detection [6], Side-Channels Analysis [20,21], Hardware-based Trojan Attack and Detection [10], and Survey-based papers [43,44] published to conferences and journals. I intend to dive deeper into more of SCA based attacks and defenses in future and contribute my work to top tier conferences and journals.…”

“…The hardware security domain in recent years has experienced a plethora of threats Side-Channel Attacks [1,2], Malware attacks [3][4][5][6][7][8][9], Hardware Trojan attacks [10], reverse engineering threats [11][12][13] and so on. Among multiple threats, the side-channel attacks (SCAs) is one of the pivotal threats due to it's capability to exploit the design despite being introduced in the market post-validation.…”

Hybrid-shield

“…Table 1 [8,10,42]. Nevertheless, a recent work [11] presents that attackers can craft malware to bypass the detectors. We believe this problem also challenges SCAs detection.…”

“…1 Lack of Robustness: Our comprehensive analysis shows that the previous works on SCAs detection jointly correlate the HPCs traces of victim and attack applications [8,42] where the detectors require HPCs data from both the attack and victim application. However, recent studies [2,11,15,17] show that attackers can craft [42] Yes Yes 100 -5000 No No mitigation module Real-Time Detection [9] No Yes 1. 5 2.4 No No mitigation module Nights-watch [25] No No No Mentioned No No mitigation module Cacheshield [3] No No [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] No mitigation module CPU Elasticity [23] No detection module No 32.66% No FLUSH+PREFETCH [24] No detection module No Not Mentioned No Random Fill [21] No detection module Yes No Mentioned No Catalyst [19] No attacks to bypass detectors.…”

A Novel Malware Detection Mechanism based on Features Extracted from Converted Malware Binary Images

“…The hardware security discipline in recent years experienced a plethora of threats like the Malware attacks [1,2,3,4,5,6,7], Side-Channel Attacks [8,9,10,11], Hardware Trojan attacks [12], reverse engineering threats [13,14,15] and so on. We focus on the malware detection technique here along with some state-of-the-art works.…”