SBIR/STTR Research Award
Deterministic Detection for Hijacked Program Execution
Award amount
$150,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2012Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- GRAMMATECH INC
- Proposal award date
- 2012-05-14
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- CBXRSPNRF8F9
- Solicitation number
- 2011.3
- Topic code
- OSD11-IA5
Research abstract
We propose technology to automatically detect software exploits that hijack the execution of a running Linux kernel or one of its hosted applications. The key enabling technology for the proposed work is provided by KATE, the Kernel Analysis and Translation Engine. KATE uses a combination of software dynamic translation and hardware virtualization to provide fine-grained, efficient monitoring of an entire system. We propose to use KATE to enforce execution invariants on a running system. Violations of the invariants will indicate that the system is under attack.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- REAFFIRM: Reverse Engineer, Analyze, and Fix Firmware
- Scalpel-Debloat
- FPGA Hardening Against Vulnerabilities and Radiation Effects
- CRAM: C++ to Rust Assisted Migration PH2
- Automated Malware Generation for Avionics Cyber Resiliency
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Preventing Program Hijacking via Static and Dynamic Analyses
- Deterministic Detection for Hijacked Program Execution
- Preventing Program Hijacking via Static and Dynamic Analyses
- Deterministic Detection for Hijacked Program Execution
- Program Instruction Sequence Monitor for Hijack Detection and Proactive Zero-day Defense
Research funding history
132 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1989–2025). Reported award amounts total $51,342,070. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Homeland Security, National Science Foundation, Department of Commerce