Detail výsledku

Hiding TCP Traffic: Threats and Counter-measures

POLČÁK, L.; HRANICKÝ, R.; MATOUŠEK, P. Hiding TCP Traffic: Threats and Counter-measures. Security and Protection of Information 2013, Proceedings of the Conference. Brno: University of Defence in Brno, 2013. p. 83-96. ISBN: 978-80-7231-922-0.
Typ
článek ve sborníku konference
Jazyk
anglicky
Autoři
Polčák Libor, Ing., Ph.D., UIFS (FIT)
Hranický Radek, Ing., Ph.D.
Matoušek Petr, doc. Ing., Ph.D., M.A., UIFS (FIT)
Abstrakt

Computer networks were designed to be simple and routers do not validate the integrity of the processed traffic.
Consequently, an attacker can modify his or her traffic with the aim of confusing any analyser that intercepts the
traffic, e.g. monitoring and security software or lawful interception. This paper studies the attack that is based on
sending additional colliding TCP segments with the same sequential number but different content. The segments
with the correct message are delivered to the other communicating party of the TCP connection while the fake
segments are dropped en route. The goal of the fake segments is to confuse analysers into decoding a different
message to the one that is received by the other communicating party. The other communicating party does not
need to be aware of the attack and therefore does not need any specific software. Although this paper discuss the
advantages and disadvantages of the attack for an attacker, our ultimate goal was to find counter-measures
against the attack. Our contribution can be divided into four following parts. 1) We converted the attack to IPv6
and searched for possibilities that may force a middle box to drop fake packets. 2) We developed a tool called
LDP, which behaves as a TCP proxy server that masks outbound TCP traffic of a whole network. 3) We
identified several counter-measures. In addition, we implemented LNC, a tool that identifies the attack in pcap
files and removes the fake segments. Since LNC is a stand-alone tool, it also deals with traces generated by other
software than LDP as long as it is based on the same attack vector. 4) LDP and LNC were tested in both
laboratory environment and on the Internet. The experiments validated that the attack is applicable for a
communication with a server that is not under the control of an attacker. Several parameters of the attack were
evaluated during the experiments; mainly the number and the length of fake packets and their influence on the
performance of the attack and counter-measures.

Klíčová slova

Law Interception, data hiding, TCP, covert channels.

Rok
2013
Strany
83–96
Sborník
Security and Protection of Information 2013, Proceedings of the Conference
Konference
Security and Protection of Information 2013
ISBN
978-80-7231-922-0
Vydavatel
University of Defence in Brno
Místo
Brno
BibTeX 
@inproceedings{BUT103497,
  author="Libor {Polčák} and Radek {Hranický} and Petr {Matoušek}",
  title="Hiding TCP Traffic: Threats and Counter-measures",
  booktitle="Security and Protection of Information 2013, Proceedings of the Conference",
  year="2013",
  pages="83--96",
  publisher="University of Defence in Brno",
  address="Brno",
  isbn="978-80-7231-922-0",
  url="https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/10333/"
}
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Projekty
Moderní prostředky pro boj s kybernetickou kriminalitou na Internetu nové generace, MV, Program bezpečnostního výzkumu České republiky 2010 - 2015, VG20102015022, zahájení: 2010-10-01, ukončení: 2015-09-30, ukončen
Výzkum informačních technologií z hlediska bezpečnosti, MŠMT, Institucionální prostředky SR ČR (např. VZ, VC), MSM0021630528, zahájení: 2007-01-01, ukončení: 2013-12-31, řešení
Pracoviště
Ústav informačních systémů (UIFS)
Nahoru