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WHITE PAPER


PATCH POISONING- SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAIN ATTACK DETECTION AND PREVENTION


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ABSTRACT

As the prevalence of software supply chain attacks has escalated, recently
highlighted by the SolarWinds Orion and Kaseya attacks, fears of future
incidents have gripped the industry. The purpose of this paper is to examine a
larger sample of software supply chain attacks, in an attempt to gauge how they
occur and can be detected using technical measures. 

In order to focus on the larger issue of technical deterrence, and to avoid
disagreements on which threat actors are responsible, this paper is not focused
on the topic of attribution. The techniques used to defend against these attacks
are irrelevant to their source, beyond the use of geo-IP based active blocking,
like that commonly employed by commercial firewalls and similar protection
methods. Attribution is a valuable data point for defenders but is beyond the
scope of this analysis. Furthermore, the behavior of the malware once it
exploits the target is largely unimportant to this analysis, as the goal is to
review likely indicators prior to installation into victim environments.

 

INTRODUCTION

A patch poisoning attack is a type of supply chain attack compromising a
software product by introducing malicious code into a patch for that product.
Many organizations are vulnerable to this type of attack as most software used
today is complex, including third-party software components that may be largely
unknown to the software publisher. All software, including third-party software,
requires frequent communication with the software supplier to provide updates
and fix known vulnerabilities. This method of attack exploits the inherent trust
between software suppliers and any consumers of that software, including
end-users, internal development, and other software vendors. 



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