Comprehensive Cyber Defense System: A Look into Adaptive Protection for the Most Common Ransomware Attacks

Overview

In this paper, we propose an adaptable solution that encompasses the protection for the most common ransomware types. In each type of attack, several mechanisms that carried out a successful attack were tested on Kali Linux-based virtual machines (VMs) and potential vulnerabilities were observed. We carried out four of the most common attacks on these VMs without any protection. After looking at how each attack ran, we examined systems that worked to combat each type of attack and noted similarities between solutions. Finally, we combined defense mechanisms and tested these combinations to ensure adaptability and fail-safe mechanisms across several attack types. Through experimentation with multiple attacks and defenses, we not only observed how each attack was prevented when its corresponding defense was installed, but we also took note of the impact that each defense had on the other attacks. In doing so, we were able to determine the defense that was the most comprehensive for the attacks tested. In this context, a comprehensive defense is one that is able to provide substantial protection against a subset of attacks. In later experiments, we tested all possible combinations of the defenses and found an optimal combination that successfully combated all examined attacks. We wrote code (https://github.com/riyapawar/ccds) that automates the process of installing each defense onto Linux machines.

Competition history

• JSHS 2023 Category not listed

Resources

• National JSHS abstract book ↗

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