Visible to the public Sandbox Integrated Gateway for the Discovery of Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities

TitleSandbox Integrated Gateway for the Discovery of Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2022
AuthorsRekeraho, Alexandre, Balan, Titus, Cotfas, Daniel T., Cotfas, Petru A., Acheampong, Rebecca, Musuroi, Cristian
Conference Name2022 International Symposium on Electronics and Telecommunications (ISETC)
KeywordsCollaboration, composability, Electronic mail, Email gateway, email server, Engines, Logic gates, Malware, Organizations, phishing, policy governance, pubcrawl, sandbox, Sandboxing, Servers, Telecommunications, Trojan horses
AbstractEmails are widely used as a form of communication and sharing files in an organization. However, email is widely used by cybercriminals to spread malware and carrying out cyber-attacks. We implemented an open-source email gateway in conjunction with a security sandbox for securing emails against malicious attachments. The email gateway scans all incoming and outgoing emails and stops emails containing suspicious files. An automated python script would then send the suspected email to the sandboxing element through sandbox API for further analysis, while the script is used also for the prevention of duplicate results. Moreover, the mail server administrator receives notifications from the email gateway about suspicious attachments. If detected attachment is a true positive based on the sandbox analysis result, email is deleted, otherwise, the email is delivered to the recipient. The paper describes in an empirical way the steps followed during the implementation, results, and conclusions of our research.
NotesISSN: 2475-7861
DOI10.1109/ISETC56213.2022.10010327
Citation Keyrekeraho_sandbox_2022