Design and Analysis of a Sophisticated Malware Attack Against Smart Grid

In this paper, we propose a realistic malware attack against the smart grid. The paper first briefs the architecture of the smart grid in general. And then we explain our proposed attack that is specifically tailored for the smart grid infrastructures. The attack considers the characteristics of recent real malware attacks such as deceptive hardware attack and multi-stage operation. We believe this analysis will benefit the design and implementation of secure smart grid infrastructures by demonstrating how a sophisticated malware attack can damage the smart grid.