@inproceedings{MuellerBrinkmannPoddebniaketal.2019,
  author    = {M{\"u}ller, Jens and Brinkmann, Marcus and Poddebniak, Damian and B{\"o}ck, Hanno and Schinzel, Sebastian and Smomrosvsky, Juraj and Schwenk, J{\"o}rg},
  title     = {"Johnny, you are fired!" - Spoofing OpenPGP and S/MIME Signatures in Emails},
  series = {28th Usenix Security Symposium, Santa Clara, CA, USA},
  booktitle = {28th Usenix Security Symposium, Santa Clara, CA, USA},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {OpenPGP and S/MIME are the two major standards to en-crypt and digitally sign emails. Digital signatures are sup-posed to guarantee authenticity and integrity of messages. Inthis work we show practical forgery attacks against variousimplementations of OpenPGP and S/MIME email signatureverification in five attack classes: (1) We analyze edge casesin S/MIME's container format. (2) We exploit in-band sig-naling in the GnuPG API, the most widely used OpenPGPimplementation. (3) We apply MIME wrapping attacks thatabuse the email clients' handling of partially signed mes-sages. (4) We analyze weaknesses in the binding of signedmessages to the sender identity. (5) We systematically testemail clients for UI redressing attacks.Our attacks allow the spoofing of digital signatures for ar-bitrary messages in 14 out of 20 tested OpenPGP-capableemail clients and 15 out of 22 email clients supportingS/MIME signatures. While the attacks do not target the un-derlying cryptographic primitives of digital signatures, theyraise concerns about the actual security of OpenPGP andS/MIME email applications. Finally, we propose mitigationstrategies to counter these attacks.},
  language  = {de}
}
@inproceedings{MuellerBrinkmannPoddebniaketal.2019,
  author    = {M{\"u}ller, Jens and Brinkmann, Marcus and Poddebniak, Damian and Schinzel, Sebastian and Schwenk, J{\"o}rg},
  title     = {What's up John­ny? - Co­vert Con­tent At­tacks on Email End-to-End En­cryp­ti­on},
  series = {17th In­ter­na­tio­nal Con­fe­rence on Ap­p­lied Cryp­to­gra­phy and Net­work Se­cu­ri­ty (ACNS 2019)},
  booktitle = {17th In­ter­na­tio­nal Con­fe­rence on Ap­p­lied Cryp­to­gra­phy and Net­work Se­cu­ri­ty (ACNS 2019)},
  pages     = {1 -- 18},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {We show practical attacks against OpenPGP and S/MIMEencryption and digital signatures in the context of email. Instead of tar-geting the underlying cryptographic primitives, our attacks abuse legiti-mate features of the MIME standard and HTML, as supported by emailclients, to deceive the user regarding the actual message content. Wedemonstrate how the attacker can unknowingly abuse the user as a de-cryption oracle by replying to an unsuspicious looking email. Using thistechnique, the plaintext of hundreds of encrypted emails can be leakedat once. Furthermore, we show how users could be tricked into signingarbitrary text by replying to emails containing CSS conditional rules.An evaluation shows that "out of" OpenPGP-capable email clients,as well as "out of" clients supporting S/MIME, are vulnerable to atleast one attack. We provide different countermeasures and discuss theiradvantages and disadvantages.},
  language  = {de}
}
@inproceedings{MuellerIsingMldadenovetal.2019,
  author    = {M{\"u}ller, Jens and Ising, Fabian and Mldadenov, Vladislav and Mainka, Christian and Schinzel, Sebastian and Schwenk, J{\"o}rg},
  title     = {Practical Decryption exFiltration: Breaking PDF Encryption},
  series = {The 26th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications, Security (CCS 2019), London, United Kingdom},
  booktitle = {The 26th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications, Security (CCS 2019), London, United Kingdom},
  doi       = {10.1145/3319535.3354214},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {The Portable Document Format, better known as PDF, is one of themost widely used document formats worldwide, and in order to en-sure information confidentiality, this file format supports documentencryption. In this paper, we analyze PDF encryption and showtwo novel techniques for breaking the confidentiality of encrypteddocuments. First, we abuse the PDF feature ofpartially encrypteddocuments to wrap the encrypted part of the document withinattacker-controlled content and therefore, exfiltrate the plaintextonce the document is opened by a legitimate user. Second, we abusea flaw in the PDF encryption specification to arbitrarily manipulateencrypted content. The only requirement is that a single block ofknown plaintext is needed, and we show that this is fulfilled bydesign. Our attacks allow the recovery of the entire plaintext of en-crypted documents by using exfiltration channels which are basedon standard compliant PDF properties.We evaluated our attacks on 27 widely used PDF viewers andfound all of them to be vulnerable. We responsibly disclosed thevulnerabilities and supported the vendors in fixing the issue},
  language  = {en}
}