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Crypto Mining Makes Noise | Maurantonio Caprolu
; Simone Raponi
; Gabriele Oligeri
; Roberto Di Pietro
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21 Oct 2019 | Abstract: | A new cybersecurity attack (cryptojacking) is emerging, in both the
literature and in the wild, where an adversary illicitly runs Crypto-clients
software over the devices of unaware users. This attack has been proved to be
very effective given the simplicity of running a Crypto-client into a target
device, e.g., by means of web-based Java scripting. In this scenario, we
propose Crypto-Aegis, a solution to detect and identify Crypto-clients network
traffic--even when it is VPN-ed. In detail, our contributions are the
following: (i) We identify and model a new type of attack, i.e., the
sponge-attack, being a generalization of cryptojacking; (ii) We provide a
detailed analysis of real network traffic generated by 3 major
cryptocurrencies; (iii) We investigate how VPN tunneling shapes the network
traffic generated by Crypto-clients by considering two major VPNbrands; (iv) We
propose Crypto-Aegis, a Machine Learning (ML) based framework that builds over
the previous steps to detect crypto-mining activities; and, finally, (v) We
compare our results against competing solutions in the literature. Evidence
from of our experimental campaign show the exceptional quality and viability of
our solution--Crypto-Aegis achieves an F1-score of 0.96 and an AUC of 0.99.
Given the extent and novelty of the addressed threat we believe that our
approach and our results, other than being interesting on their own, also pave
the way for further research in this area. | Source: | arXiv, 1910.9272 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
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