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POSTER: WiPING: Wi-Fi signal-based PIN guessing attack

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Abstract

This paper presents a new type of online password guessing attack called "WiPING" (Wi-Fi signal-based PIN Guessing attack) to guess a victim's PIN (Personal Identification Number) within a small number of unlock attempts. WiPING uses wireless signal patterns identified from observing sequential finger movements involved in typing a PIN to unlock a mobile device. A list of possible PIN candidates is generated from the wireless signal patterns, and is used to improve performance of PIN guessing attacks. We implemented a proof-of-concept attack to demonstrate the feasibility of WiPING. Our results showed that WiPING could be practically effective: while pure guessing attacks failed to guess all 20 PINs, WiPING successfully guessed two PINs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCCS 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages1835-1837
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9781450341394
DOIs
StatePublished - 24 Oct 2016
Event23rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2016 - Vienna, Austria
Duration: 24 Oct 201628 Oct 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
Volume24-28-October-2016
ISSN (Print)1543-7221

Conference

Conference23rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2016
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityVienna
Period24/10/1628/10/16

Keywords

  • Authentication
  • Screen lock
  • Side-channel attacks

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