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Raghav Bhat
dblp:277/7993
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
0since 2021 · last 2020
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Security and privacy · 1
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Network and information security
1 paper |
Digital forensics and information hiding · 70% Web and mobile security · 30% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Digital forensics and information hiding › digital forensics
attack forensics |
0.4 | 1 | 2020 | Mnemosyne: An Effective and Efficient Postmortem Watering Hole Attack Investigation System · CCS 2020 |
Digital forensics and information hiding › attack investigation
attack provenance |
0.4 | 1 | 2020 | Mnemosyne: An Effective and Efficient Postmortem Watering Hole Attack Investigation System · CCS 2020 |
Web and mobile security
browser security |
0.4 | 1 | 2020 | Mnemosyne: An Effective and Efficient Postmortem Watering Hole Attack Investigation System · CCS 2020 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
versioning · 0.4browser-based provenance · 0.4
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Mnemosyne: An Effective and Efficient Postmortem Watering Hole Attack Investigation SystemabstractCompromising a website that is routinely visited by employees of a targeted organization has become a popular technique for nation-state level adversaries to penetrate an enterprise's network. This technique, dubbed a "watering hole" attack, leverages a compromised website to serve as a stepping stone into the true victims' network. Despite watering hole attacks being one of the main techniques used by attackers to achieve the initial compromise stage of the cyber kill chain, there has been relatively little research related to detecting or investigating complex watering hole attacks. While there is existing work that seeks to detect malicious modifications made to an otherwise benign website, we argue that simply detecting that the website is compromised is only the first stage of the investigation. In this paper, we propose Mnemosyne, a postmortem forensic analysis engine that relies on browser-based attack provenance to accurately reconstruct, investigate, and assess the ramifications of watering hole attacks. Mnemosyne relies on a lightweight browser-modification-free auditing daemon to passively collect causality logs related to the browser's execution. Next, Mnemosyne applies a set of versioning techniques on top of these causality logs to precisely pinpoint when the website was compromised and what modifications were made by the adversary. Following this step, Mnemosyne relies on a novel user-level analysis to assess how the malicious modifications affected the targeted enterprise and seeks to identify exactly which employees fell victim to the attack. Throughout our extensive evaluation, we found that Mnemosyne's forensic analysis engine was able to identify the true victims in all seven real-world watering hole scenarios, while also reducing the amount of manual analysis required by the forensic analyst by 98.17% on average. Joey Allen, Matthew Landen, Raghav Bhat, Harsh Grover, Yang Ji 0002, Roberto Perdisci, Wenke Lee |
CCS | 4 |