Cyber Deception Reactive: TCP Stealth Redirection to On-Demand Honeypots

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Autores principales: Lopez, Pedro Beltran, Nespoli, Pantaleone, Perez, Manuel Gil
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Publicado: 2024
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author Lopez, Pedro Beltran
Nespoli, Pantaleone
Perez, Manuel Gil
author_facet Lopez, Pedro Beltran
Nespoli, Pantaleone
Perez, Manuel Gil
contents Cybersecurity is developing rapidly, and new methods of defence against attackers are appearing, such as Cyber Deception (CYDEC). CYDEC consists of deceiving the enemy who performs actions without realising that he/she is being deceived. This article proposes designing, implementing, and evaluating a deception mechanism based on the stealthy redirection of TCP communications to an on-demand honey server with the same characteristics as the victim asset, i.e., it is a clone. Such a mechanism ensures that the defender fools the attacker, thanks to stealth redirection. In this situation, the attacker will focus on attacking the honey server while enabling the recollection of relevant information to generate threat intelligence. The experiments in different scenarios show how the proposed solution can effectively redirect an attacker to a copied asset on demand, thus protecting the real asset. Finally, the results obtained by evaluating the latency times ensure that the redirection is undetectable by humans and very difficult to detect by a machine.
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spellingShingle Cyber Deception Reactive: TCP Stealth Redirection to On-Demand Honeypots
Lopez, Pedro Beltran
Nespoli, Pantaleone
Perez, Manuel Gil
Cryptography and Security
Networking and Internet Architecture
Performance
Systems and Control
Cybersecurity is developing rapidly, and new methods of defence against attackers are appearing, such as Cyber Deception (CYDEC). CYDEC consists of deceiving the enemy who performs actions without realising that he/she is being deceived. This article proposes designing, implementing, and evaluating a deception mechanism based on the stealthy redirection of TCP communications to an on-demand honey server with the same characteristics as the victim asset, i.e., it is a clone. Such a mechanism ensures that the defender fools the attacker, thanks to stealth redirection. In this situation, the attacker will focus on attacking the honey server while enabling the recollection of relevant information to generate threat intelligence. The experiments in different scenarios show how the proposed solution can effectively redirect an attacker to a copied asset on demand, thus protecting the real asset. Finally, the results obtained by evaluating the latency times ensure that the redirection is undetectable by humans and very difficult to detect by a machine.
title Cyber Deception Reactive: TCP Stealth Redirection to On-Demand Honeypots
topic Cryptography and Security
Networking and Internet Architecture
Performance
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09191