A Study on the Digital Forensic Investigation Method of Clever Malware in IoT Devices

As IoT devices are always connected to mobile devices or other computing devices via the Internet, clever malwares targeting IoT devices or other computing devices connected to IoT devices are emerging. Therefore, effective IoT security research is needed to respond to hacking attacks by these kinds...

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Main Authors: Dohyun Kim, Yi Pan, Jong Hyuk Park
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9290047/
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Summary:As IoT devices are always connected to mobile devices or other computing devices via the Internet, clever malwares targeting IoT devices or other computing devices connected to IoT devices are emerging. Therefore, effective IoT security research is needed to respond to hacking attacks by these kinds of malware. This paper studied the method of identifying and analyzing malware combined with social engineering from the perspective of digital forensics. The paper classified and analyzed intelligent malware characteristics and proposed a method of quickly identifying and analyzing the malware that secretly intruded into the devices installed with Android, Linux OS, using digital forensics techniques. Moreover, this paper proved its effectiveness by applying this investigation method to two actual malware cases. The research outcomes will be useful in responding to increasingly clever malware attacking IoT devices.
ISSN:2169-3536