AntiHack : an Automated System against Hacking

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AntiHack an Automated System against
Hacking

• Advisor-
• Prof. Dr. Wang
• Presented By-
• Samip Banker

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History and Current Team

• The AntiHAC project was initiated by Dr. Wang and
  his master's student Mark Li in 2000.

• The current project leader
• Fiana Li (PhD student)

• Development team members
• Samip Banker (MS student)
• Swati Gupta (BS/MS student)
• Yan Liu (MS student)
• Tao Wang (PhD student)

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Objective

• System configurations.
• System loopholes.
• Software bugs.
• The above mentioned are the major known
  vulnerabilities to hacking.
• AntiHack is an automated tool to checks whether
  the system is properly configured, finds
  well-known loopholes, and updates the system
  software if fixes or patches are available.

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Demo
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Big picture

• AntiHack is a network-based, client-server
  program, which consists of -
• Anti-Hacking Center (AHC) (Server Side)
• Anti-Hacking Management Tool (AHMT) (Client Side)
• Anti-Hacking Client Tool (AHCT) (Client Side)
• Anti-Hacking Center will maintain a database of
  an up-to-date list of every system and network
  security holes that has been discovered.
  

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Big Picture

• Anti-Hacking Management Tool will consists of 5
  components

• System update Manager (UM)

• System patch checker (PAC)

• System Configuration Checker (COC)

• Intrusion detection analyzer and manager (IDAM)

• Client Tool Manager (CTM)

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Ongoing work by the Team

• Explore how we can access and change system
  registry from C.
• Explore different type of loopholes.
• How we can import code on different platform.
• Many more.

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Technical Details

• Prototype works on Windows 2000
• Will be imported to win 98, NT, XP shortly.
• Developed using Visual C
• Exploring Microsoft foundation classes (MFC)
• Checking Windows Register tables
• Using command line commands like finger, ping,
  net, traceroute, etc.

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Question ?