Motivation

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Duong Tieu Dong edited this page Jul 14, 2021 · 3 revisions

Defacement attacks are performed in the hopes of:

Causing political conflict
Showing off
Warning the system administrator

Some common attack techniques that has been used in defacement attacks are:

SQL Injection
Command Injection
Path Traversal
Remote/Local File Inclusion
File Upload
XXE

Numerous techniques have been developed to detect defacement attacks are:

Hash comparison
Signature based detection
Differential comparison in the source code and DOM Tree
Machine Learning (Abnormally detection & Image classification)