TY - CHAP A1 - Wendzel, Steffen A1 - Caviglione, Luca A1 - Mazurczyk, Wojciech A1 - Mileva, Aleksandra A1 - Dittmann, Jana A1 - Krätzer, Christian A1 - Lamshöft, Kevin A1 - Vielhauer, Claus A1 - Hartmann, Laura A1 - Keller, Jörg A1 - Neubert, Tom T1 - A Revised Taxonomy of Steganography Embedding Patterns T2 - Konferenz: ARES 2021: The 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, Vienna Austria, 2021/ Konferenzband: Proc. of the 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES'21), August 17--20, 2021, Vienna, Austria N2 - Steganography embraces several hiding techniques which spawn across multiple domains. However, the related terminology is not unified among the different domains, such as digital media steganography, text steganography, cyber-physical systems steganography, network steganography (network covert channels), local covert channels, and out-of-band covert channels. To cope with this, a prime attempt has been done in 2015, with the introduction of the so-called hiding patterns, which allow to describe hiding techniques in a more abstract manner. Despite significant enhancements, the main limitation of such a taxonomy is that it only considers the case of network steganography. Therefore, this paper reviews both the terminology and the taxonomy of hiding patterns as to make them more general. Specifically, hiding patterns are split into those that describe the embedding and the representation of hidden data within the cover object. As a first research action, we focus on embedding hiding patterns and we show how they can be applied to multiple domains of steganography instead of being limited to the network scenario. Additionally, we exemplify representation patterns using network steganography. Y1 - 2021 UR - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3465481.3470069 SN - 978-1-4503-9051-4 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1145/3465481.3470069 SP - 1 EP - 12 PB - ACM CY - Vienna Austria ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kevin, Lamshöft A1 - Hildebrandt, Mario A1 - Altschaffel, Robert A1 - Keil, Oliver A1 - Hempel, Ivo A1 - Dittmann, Jana A1 - Neubert, Tom A1 - Vielhauer, Claus T1 - Resilience against and detection of information hiding in nuclear instrumentation and control systems within the scope of NSS 17-T T2 - Kerntechnik 2022, Leipzig, 21. - 22. Juni 2022 Y1 - 2022 UR - https://www.kerntechnik.com PB - INFORUM Verlags- und Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Neubert, Tom A1 - Caballero Morcillo, Antonio José A1 - Vielhauer, Claus T1 - Improving Performance of Machine Learning based Detection of Network Steganography in Industrial Control Systems T2 - ARES 2022: The 17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security Vienna Austria August 23 - 26, 2022 KW - machine learning KW - forensic detection KW - steganography KW - information/data hiding KW - advanced persistent threats Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1145/3538969.3544427 SP - 1 EP - 8 PB - Association for Computing Machinery CY - New York, NY ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Neubert, Tom A1 - Vielhauer, Claus A1 - Kraetzer, Christian T1 - Artificial Steganographic Network Data Generation Concept and Evaluation of Detection Approaches to secure Industrial Control Systems against Steganographic Attacks T2 - ARES 2021: The 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, August 2021 Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1145/3465481.3470073 SP - 1 EP - 9 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hildebrandt, Mario A1 - Lamshöft, Kevin A1 - Dittmann, Jana A1 - Neubert, Tom A1 - Vielhauer, Claus T1 - Information Hiding in Industrial Control Systems: An OPC UA based Supply Chain Attack and its Detection T2 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security (IH&MMSec’20), June 22–24, 2020, Denver, CO, USA KW - Information Hiding KW - Steganography KW - Process automation KW - Industrial Control Systems KW - OPC UA Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1145/3369412 SP - 115 EP - 120 PB - The Association for Computing Machinery CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Neubert, Tom A1 - Vielhauer, Claus T1 - Kill Chain Attack Modelling for Hidden Channel Attack Scenarios in Industrial Control Systems JF - IFAC-PapersOnLine Y1 - 2020 UR - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2405896320305231 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2020.12.246 SN - 24058963 SP - 11074 EP - 11080 PB - Elsevier ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hildebrandt, Mario A1 - Altschaffel, Robert A1 - Lamshöft, Kevin A1 - Lange, Mathias A1 - Szemkus, Martin A1 - Neubert, Tom A1 - Vielhauer, Claus A1 - Ding, Yongjian A1 - Dittmann, Jana T1 - Threat Analysis of Steganographic and Covert Communication in Nuclear I&C Systems T2 - Konferenz: International Conference on Nuclear Security: Sustaining and Strengthening Efforts (ICONS), Vienna, Austria, 2020/ Konferenzband: International Conference on Nuclear Security: Sustaining and Strengthening Efforts N2 - Steganographic and covert communication is increasingly used for hiding attacks. Often information hiding is used by attackers in advanced persistent threats in order to operate without being noticed. Attackers might use it to hide data exfiltration or control channels for persistent malware. The paper analyzes potential threats to operational technology by investigating different communication protocols towards their suitability as cover channels. Using a generalized network architecture model and the communication flows of nuclear power plants, the attack potential using information hiding is exemplary assessed. An example for a supply chain attack for command injection is given on the foundation of the OPC UA protocol and an off-theshelf programmable logic controller. Subsequently, recommendations for a strategic and operational preparation for operators towards the prevention and detection of information hiding attacks are derived. Y1 - 2020 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350966454_Threat_Analysis_of_Steganographic_and_Covert_Communication_in_Nuclear_IC_Systems PB - IAEA CY - Vienna, Austria ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Neubert, Tom A1 - Schueler, Eric A1 - Ullrich, Henning A1 - Buxhoidt, Laura A1 - Vielhauer, Claus T1 - Extended Analysis, Detection and Attribution of Steganographic Embedding Methods in Network Data of Industrial Controls Systems JF - International Journal on Advances in Security N2 - Since the last decade, it is well known that Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are under attack and attackers nowadays increasingly use stealthy malware (i.e., stegomalware) imple- mented by steganographic embedding methods to in- and exfil- trate hidden information. Unfortunately, current mechanisms to distinguish between network steganographic embedding methods and embedded message types need improvement for a potential attribution of attackers. For the analysis of steganographic em- bedding methods which are utilized in stealthy malware, the work presented in this paper builds upon a state-of-the-art analysis testbed proposed earlier, which is recapitulated here. It offers the opportunity to analyze network steganographic embedding methods in ICS to elaborate methods to detect and distinguish between them to gain forensic information for attribution of potential attackers and their methods. In this work, we introduce a novel machine learning based approach to distinguish between five selected embedding methods and two embedded message types. We use the analysis testbed to evaluate and determine the accuracy of the novel approach compared to a state-of-the-art approach. In our extensive evaluation, our novel approach has shown to be able to distinguish between network steganographic embedding methods with an average accuracy of 85.7%, which is an improvement in comparison to the state-of-the-art by +5.9% and enables a more accurate attribution of attackers. Additionally, the novel approach is able to improve the accuracy of distinction between embedding method and embedded message type by +9.3% in comparison to the evaluated state-of-the-art approach. Y1 - 2025 VL - 18 IS - 1&2 SP - 112 EP - 122 PB - IARIA ER -