Hiding Malware On Distributed Storage

Abstract

The Blockchain technology has been one of the major innovations in recent years. Crypto-currencies and decentralized applications are increasingly adopted. Their principles led the foundation for new ideas underlying others distributed ledger technologies (DLTs). In particular, decentralized storage employs non-recursive functions and similar algorithms compared to the Blockchain technology. Furthermore, digital signatures procedures have been used for storage validation. This paper summarizes IPFS and Swarm technologies and exposes how we managed to hide our malware on distributed storage. Our demonstration's results illustrate the possibility to hide malicious content by segregating it and reveal that decentralized storages have many concerns and lack security verification procedures.