HProve: A Hypervisor Level Provenance System to Reconstruct Attack Story Caused by Kernel Malware
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https://doi.org/10.4108/eai.8-4-2019.157417Keywords:
Provenance Tracing, System Logging, Kernel Malware, Forensic InvestigationAbstract
Provenance of system subjects (e.g., processes) and objects (e.g., files) are very useful for many forensics tasks. In our analysis and comparison of existing Linux provenance tracing systems, we found that most systems assume the Linux kernel to be in the trust base, making these systems vulnerable to kernel level malware. To address this problem, we present HProve, a hypervisor level provenance tracing system to reconstruct kernel malware attack story. It monitors the execution of kernel functions and sensitive objects, and correlates the system subjects and objects to form the causality dependencies for the attacks. We evaluated our prototype on 12 real world kernel malware samples, and the results show that it can correctly identify the provenance behaviors of the kernel malware with a minor performance overhead.
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