- author = "Hilmi Gunes Kayacik and Malcolm Heywood and Nur Zincir-Heywood",
- title = "On evolving buffer overflow attacks using genetic programming",
- booktitle = "{GECCO 2006:} Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation",
- year = "2006",
- editor = "Maarten Keijzer and Mike Cattolico and Dirk Arnold and Vladan Babovic and Christian Blum and Peter Bosman and Martin V. Butz and Carlos {Coello Coello} and Dipankar Dasgupta and Sevan G. Ficici and James Foster and Arturo Hernandez-Aguirre and Greg Hornby and Hod Lipson and Phil McMinn and Jason Moore and Guenther Raidl and Franz Rothlauf and Conor Ryan and Dirk Thierens",
- volume = "2",
- ISBN = "1-59593-186-4",
- pages = "1667--1674",
- address = "Seattle, Washington, USA",
- publisher = "ACM Press",
- publisher_address = "New York, NY, 10286-1405, USA",
- month = "8-12 " # jul,
- organisation = "ACM SIGEVO (formerly ISGEC)",
- keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, Real-World Applications, intrusion detection systems, linear genetic programming, mimicry attacks, security",
- language = "en",
- oai = "oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.558.6739",
-
URL = "
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.558.6739",
-
URL = "
http://www.sis.pitt.edu/jjoshi/courses/IS2620/Spring09/Kayacik.pdf",
-
URL = "http://gpbib.cs.ucl.ac.uk/gecco2006/docs/p1667.pdf",
-
DOI = "
10.1145/1143997.1144271",
- size = "7 pages",
- abstract = "In this work, we employed genetic programming to evolve a white hat attacker; that is to say, we evolve variants of an attack with the objective of providing better detectors. Assuming a generic buffer overflow exploit, we evolve variants of the generic attack, with the objective of evading detection by signature-based methods. To do so, we pay particular attention to the formulation of an appropriate fitness function and partnering instruction set. Moreover, by making use of the intron behaviour inherent in the genetic programming paradigm, we are able to explicitly obfuscate the true intent of the code. All the resulting attacks defeat the widely used Snort Intrusion Detection System.",
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notes = "GECCO-2006 A joint meeting of the fifteenth
international conference on genetic algorithms
(ICGA-2006) and the eleventh annual genetic programming
conference (GP-2006).
ACM Order Number 910060",
