IPv6 Covert Channels in the Wild
| Title | IPv6 Covert Channels in the Wild |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2019 |
| Authors | Mazurczyk, Wojciech, Powójski, Krystian, Caviglione, Luca |
| Conference Name | Proceedings of the Third Central European Cybersecurity Conference |
| Date Published | November 2019 |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Conference Location | Munich, Germany |
| ISBN Number | 978-1-4503-7296-1 |
| Keywords | Collaboration, composability, Information hiding, IPv6, ipv6 security, Metrics, network covert channels, network steganography, policy-based governance, pubcrawl, resilience, Resiliency |
| Abstract | The increasing diffusion of malware endowed with steganographic techniques requires to carefully identify and evaluate a new set of threats. The creation of a covert channel to hide a communication within network traffic is one of the most relevant, as it can be used to exfiltrate information or orchestrate attacks. Even if network steganography is becoming a well-studied topic, only few works focus on IPv6 and consider real network scenarios. Therefore, this paper investigates IPv6 covert channels deployed in the wild. Also, it presents a performance evaluation of six different data hiding techniques for IPv6 including their ability to bypass some intrusion detection systems. Lastly, ideas to detect IPv6 covert channels are presented. |
| URL | https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3360664.3360674 |
| DOI | 10.1145/3360664.3360674 |
| Citation Key | mazurczyk_ipv6_2019 |