How to Automatically and Accurately Sandbox Microsoft IIS

Comparing the system call sequence of a network application against a sandboxing policy is a popular approach to detecting control-hijacking attack, in which the attacker exploits such software vulnerabilities as buffer overflow to take over the control of a victim application and possibly the underlying machine. The long-standing technical barrier to the acceptance of this system call monitoring approach is how to derive accurate sandboxing policies for Windows applications whose source code is unavailable. In fact, many commercial computer security companies take advantage of this fact and fashion a business model in which their users have to pay a subscription fee to receive periodic updates on the application sandboxing policies, much like anti-virus signatures. This paper describes the design, implementation and evaluation of a sandboxing system called BASS1 that can automatically extract a highly accurate application-specific sandboxing policy from a Win32/X86 binary, and enfo...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ACSAC
• Authors: Wei Li, Lap-Chung Lam, Tzi-cker Chiueh
• Keywords: Accurate Sandboxing Policies, ACSAC 2006, Application Sandboxing Policies, Sandboxing Policy, Security Privacy