Incubation of ICS Malware (English)

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Dale Peterson and Corey Thuen pinch hit for Kyle Wilhoit to present his concept of malware incubation. It is creating a realistic environment for malware to be grown so that it can be studied and help with incident response.

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SCADA Honeypots

• A device or system (Honeynet) that is on a live network, but has no operational purpose– Different levels of interaction / realism– How long will it fool an attacker

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Detect Attacks

• Nothing should access the Honeypot since it has no legitimate purpose

• Any traffic is either an attack or spurious traffic

• Debate on the value of Honeypot’s in detecting attacks– Many say there are better, more efficient

solutions– IDS and other network monitoring

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Learn How Attackers Work

• Real value of the Honeypot• High interaction may lead to attacker

revealing advanced techniques, end goals, other info

• Decision … how exposed is the Honeypot?– Widely exposed (on Internet) many will hit the

Honeypot and lots of data to review– Hidden on secure network, may see little

activity

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Analysis is Important

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Incubator

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Why An Incubator?

• Be prepared to analyze malware / attacks• Identify what the attack did so you can fix

the affected systems• Learn what information or control was lost• Attempt to identify the attacker

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