The paper Detecting Fault Injection Attacks with Runtime Verification has been accepted for publication in SPRO’19, the 3rd International Workshop on Software PROtection, which will be held on 15 Nov 2019, in conjunction with CCS’19.
The abstract is below:
Fault injections are increasingly used to attack/test secure applications. In this paper, we define formal models of runtime monitors that can detect fault injections that result in test inversion attacks and arbitrary jumps in the control flow. Runtime verification monitors offer several advantages. The code implementing a monitor is small compared to the entire application code. Monitors have a formal semantics; and we prove that they effectively detect attacks. Each monitor is a module dedicated to detecting an attack and can be deployed as needed to secure the application. A monitor can run separately from the application or it can be “weaved” inside the application. Our monitors have been validated by detecting simulated attacks on a program that verifies a user PIN.
This is joint work with Ali Kassem, Inria.
The preprint of the paper can be downloaded here.
