TY - JOUR
T1 - A Study of Cyber Attack Behavior based on Algebraic Topology
AU - Zhang, Xiaoyu
AU - Yan, Huaizhi
AU - Liu, Zhen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/4/8
Y1 - 2021/4/8
N2 - It is inevitable that serious damage will occur once the hosts suffer from cyberattack. Therefore, the study of cyberattacks has become indispensable in the field of cyber security. Host-oriented cyberattacks consist of a series of atomic attacks attacking system objects and metrics on atomic attacks can quantitatively describe the behavior of cyber attacks. When the atomic attack behavior constitutes a manifold topological space, host-oriented assessment of the effects of a cyberattack can be computed using an algebraic topology. The concepts of manifold and other spaces in algebraic topology can be used to model and analyze the system composed of many elements. Therefore, by handling the relationships between metrics appropriately (e.g., complex mappings), the topological space of attack scenarios is constructed. This paper uses a cellular manifold to show the geometric structure of cyberattack behaviors. In this solution, we select the metrics depicting the cyber attack behavior and clear their dependence through the construction of cyberattack behavior sequence graph, and then put forward the cyberattack behavior model based on the relationship between metrics. WannaCry ransomware attack is analyzed by applying our model, which provides a new idea for quantifying cyberattack.
AB - It is inevitable that serious damage will occur once the hosts suffer from cyberattack. Therefore, the study of cyberattacks has become indispensable in the field of cyber security. Host-oriented cyberattacks consist of a series of atomic attacks attacking system objects and metrics on atomic attacks can quantitatively describe the behavior of cyber attacks. When the atomic attack behavior constitutes a manifold topological space, host-oriented assessment of the effects of a cyberattack can be computed using an algebraic topology. The concepts of manifold and other spaces in algebraic topology can be used to model and analyze the system composed of many elements. Therefore, by handling the relationships between metrics appropriately (e.g., complex mappings), the topological space of attack scenarios is constructed. This paper uses a cellular manifold to show the geometric structure of cyberattack behaviors. In this solution, we select the metrics depicting the cyber attack behavior and clear their dependence through the construction of cyberattack behavior sequence graph, and then put forward the cyberattack behavior model based on the relationship between metrics. WannaCry ransomware attack is analyzed by applying our model, which provides a new idea for quantifying cyberattack.
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U2 - 10.1088/1742-6596/1856/1/012068
DO - 10.1088/1742-6596/1856/1/012068
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85104208320
SN - 1742-6588
VL - 1856
JO - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
JF - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
IS - 1
M1 - 012068
T2 - 2021 International Conference on Computer Network Security and Software Engineering, CNSSE 2021
Y2 - 26 February 2021 through 28 February 2021
ER -