DELTA: SDN SECURITY EVALUATION FRAMEWORK

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What is DELTA?

DELTA is a penetration testing framework that regenerates known attack scenarios for diverse test cases. This framework also provides the capability of discovering unknown security problems in SDN by employing a fuzzing technique.

Agent-Manager is the control tower. It takes full control over all the agents deployed to the target SDN network.
Application-Agent is a legitimate SDN application that conducts attack procedures and is controller-dependent. The known malicious functions are implemented as application-agent functions.
Channel-Agent is deployed between the controller and the OpenFlow-enabled switch. The agent sniffs and modifies the unencrypted control messages. It is controller-independent.
Host-Agent behaves as if it was a legitimate host participating in the target SDN network. The agent demonstrates an attack in which a host attempts to compromise the control plane.

Delta architecture

Prerequisites

In order to build and run DELTA, the following are required:

An agent manager based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64 bit
- Ant build system
- Maven v3.3.9
- LXC 2.0
- JDK 1.8
Target Controller (for application agent)
- Floodlight: ~1.2
- ONOS: 1.1, 1.6, 1.9, 1.13.1 (being tested)
- OpenDaylight: ~Oxygen
- Ryu: 4.16
Cbench (for channel agent)
Mininet 2.2 (for host agent)
(in the case of All-In-One Single Machine) Three lxc containers based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64 bit.
- Container-1: Target controller + Application agent
- Container-2: Channel agent
- Container-3: Host agent

Installing DELTA

DELTA installation depends on maven and ant build system. The mvn command is used to install the agent-manager and the agents. DELTA can support an All-In-One Single Machine environment via containers as well as a real hardware SDN environment.

STEP 1. Get the source code of DELTA on the agent manager machine

$ git clone https://github.com/seungsoo-lee/DELTA.git

STEP 2. Install DELTA dependencies

$ cd <DELTA>/tools/dev/delta-setup/
$ ./delta-setup-devenv-ubuntu

STEP 3. Install three containers using lxc

$ source ./<DELTA>/tools/dev/delta-setup/bash_profile
$ cd <DELTA>/tools/dev/lxc-setup
$ ./lxc-dev-install

$ sudo vi /etc/default/lxc-net
Uncomment "LXC_DHCP_CONFILE=/etc/lxc/dnsmasq.conf"
$ sudo service lxc-net restart
$ sudo lxc-start -n container-cp -d

$ sudo vi /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/lxc/container-base
Uncomment "mount options=(rw, make-rprivate) -> **,"
$ sudo apparmor_parser -r /etc/apparmor.d/lxc-containers

$ cd ~
$ ssh-keygen -t rsa
(Press Enter)
$ ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub $DELTA_CP
(ID: ubuntu, PW: ubuntu)

$ ssh $DELTA_CP
(DELTA_CP) $ sudo visudo
In the bottom of the file, type the follow:
ubuntu ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
(DELTA_CP) $ exit

$ cd <DELTA>/tools/dev/lxc-setup
$ ./lxc-dev-setup
$ ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub $DELTA_CH
$ ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub $DELTA_DP

STEP 4. Install DELTA using maven build

$ cd <DELTA>
$ source ./tools/dev/delta-setup/bash_profile
$ mvn clean install

The test environment is automatically setup as below:

Env1

Configuring your own experiments

The agent-manager automatically reads a configuration file and sets up the test environment based on the file. [/tools/config/manager_default.cfg] contains the All-In-One Single Machine configuration by default.

CONTROLLER_SSH=[account-id]@[agent-controller ipAddr]
CHANNEL_SSH=[account-id]@[agent-channel ipAddr]
HOST_SSH=[account-id]@[agent-host ipAddr]
TARGET_HOST=10.0.0.2
ONOS_ROOT=/home/vagrant/onos-1.6.0
CBENCH_ROOT=/home/vagrant/oflops/cbench/
TARGET_CONTROLLER=Floodlight
TARGET_VERSION=0.91
OF_PORT=6633
OF_VER=1.3
MITM_NIC=eth1
CONTROLLER_IP=[agent-controller ipAddr]
SWITCH_IP=[agent-host ipAddr],[agent-host ipAddr],[agent-host ipAddr]
DUMMY_CONT_IP=[agent-manager ipAddr]
DUMMY_CONT_PORT=6633
AM_IP=[agent-manager ipAddr]
AM_PORT=3366

Floodlight 1.2

$ cd <DELTA>/tools/dev/app-agent-setup
$ ./floodlight-1.2-scp

ONOS 1.1 (depreciated)

$ cd <DELTA>/tools/dev/app-agent-setup/onos
$ ./onos-1.1.0-scp
(on the controller machine) $ ./onos-1.1.0-setup

ONOS 1.6, 1.9 or 1.13.1


$ cd <DELTA>/tools/dev/app-agent-setup/onos
$ ./delta-setup-onos <onos-version>
$ ./delta-scp-onos <onos-version>

Supported ONOS version in the script: 1.6, 1.9, 1.13.1
```
> OpenDaylight Oxygen
```
$ cd /tools/dev/app-agent-setup $ ./odl-oxygen-scp
```
> Ryu 4.16
```
$ cd /tools/dev/app-agent-setup/ryu $ ./delta-setup-ryu
The app-agent (on the controller container) needs 'agent.cfg' file to connect to the agent-manager.
```
MANAGER_IP=[agent-manager ipAddr]
MANAGER_PORT=3366
```

Running DELTA

STEP 1. Distribute the executable files to Containers

$ cd <DELTA>
$ source ./tools/dev/delta-setup/bash_profile
$ ./tools/dev/delta-setup/delta-agents-scp

STEP 2. Execute Agent-Manager first


$ cd <DELTA>
$ bin/run-delta <configuration file>
(e.g., bin/run-delta config/manager_vm.cfg)

DELTA: A Penetration Testing Framework for Software-Defined Networks

[pP]   - Show all known attacks
[cC]   - Show configuration info
[kK]   - Replaying known attack(s)
[uU]   - Finding an unknown attack
[qQ]   - Quit

Command>_



+ STEP 3. Connect Web-based UI (port number is 7070)
![WEB](images/delta_webui.png)

## Main Contributors
+ Seungsoo Lee (KAIST)
+ Jinwoo Kim (KAIST)
+ Seungwon Woo (KAIST)
+ Haney Kang (KAIST)
+ Jaehan Kim (KAIST)
+ Changhoon Yoon (KAIST)
+ Sandra Scott-Hayward (Queen's University Belfast)
+ Seungwon Shin (KAIST)

## Collaborators
+ Phil Porras, Vinod Yegneswaran (SRI International) 
+ Kyuho Hwang, Daewon Jung (National Security Research Institute)
+ [Atto Research](http://www.atto-research.com/index.php/en/home/)
+ ![collabo](images/delta_collabo.png)

## Questions?
Send questions or feedback to: lss365@kaist.ac.kr, jinwoo.kim@kaist.ac.kr