Research on Malicious Behavior of Firmware Based on Hardware Resources Access Control

Le Kang Yang; Di Chen; Ju Mei; Liang Xue

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.340.737

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Research on Malicious Behavior of Firmware Based on Hardware Resources Access Control

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As same as the traditional application and system software, firmware also faced the risk of malicious code like hobbyhorse, back door, logical bomb and so on. Firmware exhibited strong cohesion and hardware relativity, which make the malicious action in firmware to be different from that in the traditional software. This paper analyzed the specificities of firmware and the malicious behaviour about it, then expatiate the essence of the malicious behaviour of the firmware, and presented a firmware formal definition and detecting method which was based on the hardware resources access control policy. Experimental results proved that the method was effective to detect the malicious firmware.

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Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 340)

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July 2013

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Le Kang Yang, Di Chen, Ju Mei, Liang Xue

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Firmware Malicious Behaviour, Hardware Resources Access Control, Malicious Firmware Detection, Users Intention

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