Attack analysis system, cooperation apparatus, attack analysis cooperation method, and program

• US 9,853,994 B2
• Filed: 11/08/2013
• Issued: 12/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Sakakibara, Hiroyuki, Sakurai, Shoji, Kawauchi, Kiyoto
• Primary Examiner(s): TRAN, ELLEN C
• Application Number:
  US14/433,560
• Publication Number:
  US 20150256554A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,509 Days
• Field of Search: 726 22, 726 23
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/34 Recording or statistical evaluation of computer activity, e.g. of down time, of input/output operation ; Recording or statistical evaluation of user activity, e.g. usability assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/55 Detecting local intrusion or implementing counter-measures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/552 involving long-term monitoring or reporting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0218 Distributed architectures, e.g. distributed firewalls
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/1408 by monitoring network traffic monitoring network traffic per se H04L43/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/1425 Traffic logging, e.g. anomaly detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/1433 Vulnerability analysis

Abstract

In a log analysis cooperation system including a logger that collects a log of a communication device and stores the log in a storage device, a SIEM apparatus that detects an attack, and a log analysis apparatus that analyzes the log collected by the logger, a log analysis cooperation apparatus stores an attack scenario in a storage device, receives from the SIEM apparatus warning information including information on the detected attack, computes a predicted occurrence time of an attack predicted to occur subsequent to the detected attack based on the warning information and the attack scenario, and transmits to the log analysis apparatus a scheduled search to search the log at predicted occurrence time computed. The log analysis apparatus transmits a scheduled search to the logger to search the log at the predicted occurrence time.

Claims

1. An attack analysis system including a log collection apparatus that includes log collection circuitry and that collects a log of at least one device connected to a network being monitored and stores the log in a storage device as log information, a detection apparatus that includes detection circuitry and that detects an attack on the network being monitored, and an analysis apparatus that includes analysis circuitry and that analyzes the log information collected by the log collection apparatus, the attack analysis system comprising:

a cooperation apparatus that includes cooperation circuitry and that is connected to the detection apparatus and connected to the analysis apparatus, wherein

upon detection of the attack on the network being monitored, the detection apparatus transmits to the cooperation apparatus warning information including an attack identifier for identifying the detected attack and an attack occurrence time at which the detected attack has occurred,

the cooperation apparatus includes

an attack scenario information storage unit, implemented by the cooperation circuitry, that stores attack scenario information in a storage device in advance, the attack scenario information including a plurality of attack identifiers for identifying a respective plurality of attacks predicted to occur on the network being monitored,

a scheduled analysis request unit, implemented by the cooperation circuitry, that when the warning information is received from the detection apparatus, computes a predicted occurrence time of a subsequent attack that has not yet occurred and is predicted to occur at a time after the attack occurrence time at which the detected attack has occurred, based on the warning information received and the attack scenario information stored by the attack scenario information storage unit, and transmits to the analysis apparatus a scheduled analysis request that is a request for analyzing the log information at the predicted occurrence time computed, the subsequent attack being one of the plurality of attacks included in the attack scenario information and being predicted to occur at the time after the attack occurrence time, and

the analysis apparatus analyzes the log information at the predicted occurrence time, based on the scheduled analysis request transmitted from the scheduled analysis request unit of the cooperation apparatus.

2. The attack analysis system according to claim 1,

wherein the cooperation apparatus includes:

a subsequent attack information acquisition unit, implemented by the cooperation circuitry, that obtains an attack identifier for the subsequent attack from the attack scenario information;

wherein the scheduled analysis request unit includes the attack identifier for the subsequent attack obtained from the subsequent attack information acquisition unit and the predicted occurrence time in the scheduled analysis request and transmits the scheduled analysis request; and

wherein the analysis apparatus analyzes the log information at the predicted occurrence time, based on the attack identifier for the subsequent attack and the predicted occurrence time included in the scheduled analysis request transmitted from the scheduled analysis request unit, and determines whether or not the subsequent attack has occurred at the predicted occurrence time.

3. The attack analysis system according to claim 2,

wherein the attack scenario information storage unit stores in the storage device the attack scenario information including an occurrence order of the plurality of attacks and an occurrence interval of two attacks that are successive in the order, in advance;

wherein, upon receipt of the warning information from the detection apparatus, the subsequent attack information acquisition unit obtains the attack identifier for the subsequent attack that is a subsequent attack predicted to occur subsequent to the attack identified by the attack identifier included in the warning information and a subsequent occurrence interval that is an occurrence interval between the attack identified by the attack identifier included in the warning information and the subsequent attack, based on the warning information received and the attack scenario information stored by the attack scenario information storage unit; and

wherein the scheduled analysis request unit computes the predicted occurrence time at which the subsequent attack is predicted to occur, based on the subsequent occurrence interval obtained by the subsequent attack information acquisition unit and the attack occurrence time included in the warning information.

4. The attack analysis system according to claim 3,

wherein the cooperation apparatus includes:

a preceding attack information acquisition unit, implemented by the cooperation circuitry, that, upon receipt of the warning information from the detection apparatus, obtains an attack identifier for an analysis attack target that is a preceding attack which may have occurred immediately preceding to the attack identified by the attack identifier included in the warning information and a preceding occurrence interval that is an occurrence interval between the attack identified by the attack identifier included in the warning information and the preceding attack, based on the warning information received and the attack scenario information stored by the attack scenario information storage unit; and

a time-specified analysis request unit, implemented by the cooperation circuitry, that computes a possible occurrence time at which the preceding attack may have occurred, based on the preceding occurrence interval obtained by the preceding attack information acquisition unit and the attack occurrence time included in the warning information, and transmits to the analysis apparatus a time-specified analysis request that is a request for analyzing the log information at the possible occurrence time computed; and

wherein the analysis apparatus analyzes the log information at the possible occurrence time, based on the time-specified analysis request transmitted from the time-specified analysis request unit of the cooperation apparatus.

5. The attack analysis system according to claim 2,

wherein the attack scenario information storage unit stores in the storage device the attack scenario information including an occurrence order of the plurality of attacks, in advance;

wherein, upon receipt of the warning information from the detection apparatus, the subsequent attack information acquisition unit designates as the subsequent attack a subsequent attack predicted to occur subsequent to the attack identified by the attack identifier included in the warning information and obtains the attack identifier for the subsequent attack, based on the warning information received and the attack scenario information stored by the attack scenario information storage unit; and

wherein the scheduled analysis request unit inputs a search schedule condition for computing the predicted occurrence time, and computes the predicted occurrence time, based on the search schedule condition input and the attack occurrence time.

6. The attack analysis system according to claim 5,

wherein the scheduled analysis request unit inputs the search schedule condition including a search period starting from the attack occurrence time and a search interval.

7. The attack analysis system according to claim 2,

wherein, upon receipt of the warning information from the detection apparatus, the subsequent attack information acquisition unit designates as an analysis attack an attack other than the attack identified by the attack identifier included in the warning information, and obtains the attack identifier for the subsequent attack, based on the warning information received and the attack scenario information stored by the attack scenario information storage unit;

and

wherein the scheduled analysis request unit inputs a search schedule condition for computing the predicted occurrence time, and computes the predicted occurrence time, based on the search schedule condition input and the attack occurrence time.

8. The attack analysis system according to claim 7,

wherein the scheduled analysis request unit inputs the search schedule condition including a search period starting from the attack occurrence time and a determination condition for determining that the subsequent attack has occurred, and the scheduled analysis request unit further includes the determination condition in the scheduled analysis request and transmits the scheduled analysis request;

and

wherein the analysis apparatus determines whether or not the subsequent attack has occurred at the predicted occurrence time, based on the attack identifier for the subsequent attack, the predicted occurrence time, and the determination condition that are included in the scheduled analysis request transmitted from the scheduled analysis request unit.

9. The attack analysis system according to claim 5,

wherein the warning information further includes information on an attack target asset that is a target of the detected attack;

and

wherein the subsequent attack information acquisition unit extracts information on the attack target asset targeted for the attack identified by the attack identifier included in the warning information, based on the warning information and the attack scenario information stored by the attack scenario information storage unit, and includes a related attack in the subsequent attack, the related attack targeting a related target asset that is in the form of asset information related to the information on the attack target asset extracted.

10. The attack analysis system according to claim 1,

wherein the network being monitored connects a specific device whose log is collected by the log collection apparatus when the log collection apparatus receives a log collection instruction;

wherein the scheduled analysis request unit transmits the log collection instruction to the log collection apparatus before transmitting the scheduled analysis request to the analysis apparatus, the log collection instruction being an instruction to collect the log of the specific device at the predicted occurrence time;

wherein, upon receipt of the log collection instruction from the scheduled analysis request unit, the log collection apparatus collects the log of the specific device at the predicted occurrence time based on the log collection instruction received and stores the collected log as specific device log information in the storage device, and transmits a log collection response for the log collection instruction to the cooperation apparatus; and

wherein, upon receipt of the log collection response from the log collection apparatus, the scheduled analysis request unit transmits a specific device analysis request to the analysis apparatus, the specific device analysis request being a request for analyzing the specific device log information at the predicted occurrence time.

11. The attack analysis system according to claim 3,

wherein the subsequent attack information acquisition unit determines whether or not the subsequent attack predicted to occur subsequent to the attack identified by the attack identifier included in the warning information received from the detection apparatus is likely to succeed, and obtains the attack identifier for the subsequent attack and the subsequent occurrence interval when the subsequent attack information acquisition unit determines that the subsequent attack is likely to succeed.

12. The attack analysis system according to claim 11,

wherein the network being monitored includes an authentication apparatus that authenticates an access right to the device by authentication information;

and

wherein, when the subsequent attack information acquisition unit determines that the subsequent attack is likely to succeed, the subsequent attack information acquisition unit determines whether or not the subsequent attack is an unauthorized access by spoofing, and when the subsequent attack is determined as being the unauthorized access by the spoofing, the subsequent attack information acquisition unit transmits, to the authentication apparatus, a right change request that is a request for changing the access right to the device.

13. The attack analysis system according to claim 12,

wherein the authentication apparatus performs authentication, using a password as the authentication information;

and

wherein the subsequent attack information acquisition unit transmits to the authentication apparatus a password change request that is a request for changing the password when the subsequent attack is determined to the unauthorized access by the spoofing.

14. A cooperation apparatus included in an attack analysis system including a log collection apparatus that collects a log of at least one device connected to a network being monitored and stores the log in a storage device as log information, a detection apparatus that detects an attack on the network being monitored, and an analysis apparatus that analyzes the log information collected by the log collection apparatus, the cooperation apparatus being connected to the detection apparatus and connected to the analysis apparatus, the cooperation apparatus comprising:

circuitry configured to

upon detection of the attack on the network being monitored, receive from the detection apparatus warning information including an attack identifier for identifying the detected attack and an attack occurrence time at which the detected attack has occurred,

store attack scenario information in a storage device in advance, the attack scenario information including a plurality of attack identifiers for identifying a respective plurality of attacks predicted to occur on the network being monitored,

when the warning information is received from the detection apparatus, compute a predicted occurrence time of a subsequent attack that has not yet occurred and is predicted to occur at a time after the attack occurrence time at which the detected attack has occurred, based on the warning information received and the attack scenario information stored at the storage device, the subsequent attack being one of the plurality of attacks included in the attack scenario information and being predicted to occur at the time after the attack occurrence time, and

transmit to the analysis apparatus a scheduled analysis request that is a request for analyzing the log information at the predicted occurrence time computed.

15. An attack analysis cooperation method associated with an attack analysis system including a log collection apparatus that collects a log of at least one device connected to a network being monitored and stores the log in a storage device as log information, a detection apparatus that detects an attack on the network being monitored, and an analysis apparatus that analyzes the log information collected by the log collection apparatus, and a cooperation apparatus that is connected to the detection apparatus and connected to the analysis apparatus, the method comprising:

by the detection apparatus, upon detection of the attack on the network being monitored, transmitting to the cooperation apparatus warning information including an attack identifier for identifying the detected attack and an attack occurrence time at which the detected attack has occurred;

by the cooperation apparatus, storing attack scenario information in a storage device in advance, the attack scenario information including a plurality of attack identifiers for identifying a respective plurality of attacks predicted to occur on the network being monitored;

by the cooperation apparatus, when the warning information is received from the detection apparatus, computing a predicted occurrence time of a subsequent attack that has not yet occurred and is predicted to occur after the attack occurrence time at which the detected attack has occurred, based on the warning information received and the attack scenario information stored at the storage device, and transmitting to the analysis apparatus a scheduled analysis request that is a request for analyzing the log information at the predicted occurrence time computed, the subsequent attack being one of the plurality of attacks included in the attack scenario information and being predicted to occur at the time after the attack occurrence time; and

by the analysis apparatus, analyzing the log information at the predicted occurrence time, based on the scheduled analysis request transmitted from the cooperation apparatus.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including computer executable instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by a cooperation apparatus included in an attack analysis system including a log collection apparatus that collects a log of at least one device connected to a network being monitored and stores the log in a storage device as log information, a detection apparatus that detects an attack on the network being monitored, and an analysis apparatus that analyzes the log information collected by the log collection apparatus, the cooperation apparatus being a computer connected to the detection apparatus and connected to the analysis apparatus, cause the cooperation apparatus to perform a method, the method comprising:

upon detection of the attack on the network being monitored, receiving from the detection apparatus warning information including an attack identifier for identifying the detected attack and an attack occurrence time at which the detected attack has occurred;

storing attack scenario information in a storage device in advance, the attack scenario information including a plurality of attack identifiers for identifying a respective plurality of attacks predicted to occur on the network being monitored;

when the warning information is received from the detection apparatus, computing a predicted occurrence time of a subsequent attack that has not yet occurred and is predicted to occur after the attack occurrence time at which the detected attack has occurred, based on the warning information received and the attack scenario information stored at the storage device, the subsequent attack being one of the plurality of attacks included in the attack scenario information and being predicted to occur at the time after the attack occurrence time; and

transmitting to the analysis apparatus a scheduled analysis request that is a request for analyzing the log information at the predicted occurrence time computed.