New Protection of Kernel-level Digital Rights Management in Cloud-based Consumer Electronics Environments

Controlling and managing rights of digital contents has been becoming very critical in cloud-based consumer entertainment devices. The kernel-level digital rights management (DRM) software can offer stronger protection of digital contents. For effectively preventing unauthorized copying, the rootkit stealth technologies may be employed in consumer electronics (CE) environments to conceal kernel-level DRM driver. Therefore, to stop unauthorized users from deleting the DRM software by employing anti-rootkit tools to remove the rootkit, this paper presents new rootkit-based stealth technologies to reinforce DRM driver in cloud-based CE environments. The proposed new driver-hidden rootkit stealth technologies can successfully evade detection and removal of well-known rootkit detectors in cloud-based CE environments. In summary, the contributions of this paper are that in cloudbased CE environments the proposed novel stealth technologies can be used to effectively reinforce the kernellevel DRM software for ensuring the rights of legitimate consumers and providing forceful protections for copyright owners.