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T.T. Wieffering
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Formjackers
Towards an Internet-scale Survey of Credit Card Skimming on the Web
We propose a novel, dynamic analysis-based detection solution for formjackers. The operating principle of these formjackers, or card skimmers on the web, is typically simple, yet effective: when making a payment on webshop that has been infected with a formjacker, the submitted payment information is not just transmitted to the webshop, but also silently to the involved malicious actor. Incidents in the past few years with large numbers of potentially affected customers, in the order of hundreds of thousands to millions, and high fines, in the order of tens of millions, have shown the urgency of addressing the issue of card skimming on the web. Currently, the state of the art in detecting formjackers is that of the cybersecurity industry, whose proprietary detection strategies appear to heavily rely on classical, static-analysis techniques. A drawback of these techniques is that they are less suited to detect new or unknown strands of formjackers. To advance the state of the art and enable a comprehensive, large-scale study of formjackers on the web, we wish to go beyond the traditional `Indicators of Compromise' approach. Instead of building on relatively shallow indicators, such as what formjacker typically look like, or which domains are commonly associated with formjacking campaigns, we propose to look at the underlying, more rudimentary behavior of formjackers, such as accessing data entered into the page. To this end, we introduce and study a detection strategy that ties into these more fundamental behavioral patterns of formjackers by applying dynamic analysis of client-side JavaScript. As an important prerequisite in dynamic analysis, we identify which conditions must be satisfied to elicit malicious behavior in formjackers. We implement two types of dynamic analysis, showing how these conditions can be met in practice. Finally, by crawling various collections of URLs we study the extent to which the proposed detection solution is suited to detect formjackers.
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We propose a novel, dynamic analysis-based detection solution for formjackers. The operating principle of these formjackers, or card skimmers on the web, is typically simple, yet effective: when making a payment on webshop that has been infected with a formjacker, the submitted payment information is not just transmitted to the webshop, but also silently to the involved malicious actor. Incidents in the past few years with large numbers of potentially affected customers, in the order of hundreds of thousands to millions, and high fines, in the order of tens of millions, have shown the urgency of addressing the issue of card skimming on the web. Currently, the state of the art in detecting formjackers is that of the cybersecurity industry, whose proprietary detection strategies appear to heavily rely on classical, static-analysis techniques. A drawback of these techniques is that they are less suited to detect new or unknown strands of formjackers. To advance the state of the art and enable a comprehensive, large-scale study of formjackers on the web, we wish to go beyond the traditional `Indicators of Compromise' approach. Instead of building on relatively shallow indicators, such as what formjacker typically look like, or which domains are commonly associated with formjacking campaigns, we propose to look at the underlying, more rudimentary behavior of formjackers, such as accessing data entered into the page. To this end, we introduce and study a detection strategy that ties into these more fundamental behavioral patterns of formjackers by applying dynamic analysis of client-side JavaScript. As an important prerequisite in dynamic analysis, we identify which conditions must be satisfied to elicit malicious behavior in formjackers. We implement two types of dynamic analysis, showing how these conditions can be met in practice. Finally, by crawling various collections of URLs we study the extent to which the proposed detection solution is suited to detect formjackers.
Ultra Wideband Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging
Data Acquisition & Antenna Analysis
A system has been developed that utilises the techniques of Ultra Wideband and Synthetic Aperture Radar to produce top view images of a scene using measurements from the side. The system consists of the PulsON P410 radar module, a set of antennas, a moving platform and an imaging algorithm. This thesis will cover all the aspects of the data acquisition part of the system with additionally an analysis on antennas.
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A system has been developed that utilises the techniques of Ultra Wideband and Synthetic Aperture Radar to produce top view images of a scene using measurements from the side. The system consists of the PulsON P410 radar module, a set of antennas, a moving platform and an imaging algorithm. This thesis will cover all the aspects of the data acquisition part of the system with additionally an analysis on antennas.