System cum Program-Wide Lightweight Malicious Program Execution Detection Scheme for Cloud
Sanchika Gupta, Padam Kumar · Information Security Journal A Global Perspective · 2014
Cloud is prone to a set of well-known network and host-based attacks from cloud insiders, cloud users, and outside attackers. This paper concretely focuses over the detection of malware and program modification-based attacks through identification of malicious program executions and malware at the client virtual machines and hosts in a cloud environment. The paper also focuses on the related techniques for malware detection using system call sequence measures. An immediate system call structure-based program cum system-wide technique is proposed for the detection of anomalous program executions and malwares in the cloud. The algorithm is validated over University of New Mexico sendmail data set. Effective deployment architecture for such an implementation is also presented as a distributed cum centralized intrusion prevention system (IPS). The proposed IPS also solves the problem of individual IPS getting malformed at client virtual machine with the use of both process and system level based detection strategies. The paper provides detailed results and experimentations of the proposed intrusion detection technique on a private cloud with open nebula and virtual box.