Author(s): Adam Bates, Ryan Leonard, Hannah Pruse, Daniel Lowd, and Kevin R. B. Butler

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Date: 22 Feb 2014

Document Type: Briefing Papers

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Associated Event: NDSS Symposium 2014

Abstract:

Determining a computer’s identity is critically important, but even hosts with trusted computing hardware can be defeated by relay and impersonation attacks. Through observing USB stack timing characteristics, we leverage Android devices and machine learning techniques to detect virtualized environments, and uniquely fingerprint hosts amidst fields of identically specified machines.