Due to polymorphic nature of malware attack,a signature-based analysis is no longer sufficient to solve polymorphic and stealth nature ofmalware attacks.On the other hand,state-of-the-art methods like deep learning re...Due to polymorphic nature of malware attack,a signature-based analysis is no longer sufficient to solve polymorphic and stealth nature ofmalware attacks.On the other hand,state-of-the-art methods like deep learning require labelled dataset as a target to train a supervised model.This is unlikely to be the case in production network as the dataset is unstructured and has no label.Hence an unsupervised learning is recommended.Behavioral study is one of the techniques to elicit traffic pattern.However,studies have shown that existing behavioral intrusion detection model had a few issues which had been parameterized into its common characteristics,namely lack of prior information(p(θ)),and reduced parameters(θ).Therefore,this study aims to utilize the previously built Feature Selection Model subsequently to design a Predictive Analytics Model based on Bayesian Network used to improve the analysis prediction.Feature Selection Model is used to learn significant label as a target and Bayesian Network is a sophisticated probabilistic approach to predict intrusion.Finally,the results are extended to evaluate detection,accuracy and false alarm rate of the model against the subject matter expert model,Support Vector Machine(SVM),k nearest neighbor(k-NN)using simulated and ground-truth dataset.The ground-truth dataset from the production traffic of one of the largest healthcare provider in Malaysia is used to promote realism on the real use case scenario.Results have shown that the proposed model consistently outperformed other models.展开更多
基金The work is fully sponsored by the research project grant FRGS/1/2021/ICT07/UITM/02/3。
文摘Due to polymorphic nature of malware attack,a signature-based analysis is no longer sufficient to solve polymorphic and stealth nature ofmalware attacks.On the other hand,state-of-the-art methods like deep learning require labelled dataset as a target to train a supervised model.This is unlikely to be the case in production network as the dataset is unstructured and has no label.Hence an unsupervised learning is recommended.Behavioral study is one of the techniques to elicit traffic pattern.However,studies have shown that existing behavioral intrusion detection model had a few issues which had been parameterized into its common characteristics,namely lack of prior information(p(θ)),and reduced parameters(θ).Therefore,this study aims to utilize the previously built Feature Selection Model subsequently to design a Predictive Analytics Model based on Bayesian Network used to improve the analysis prediction.Feature Selection Model is used to learn significant label as a target and Bayesian Network is a sophisticated probabilistic approach to predict intrusion.Finally,the results are extended to evaluate detection,accuracy and false alarm rate of the model against the subject matter expert model,Support Vector Machine(SVM),k nearest neighbor(k-NN)using simulated and ground-truth dataset.The ground-truth dataset from the production traffic of one of the largest healthcare provider in Malaysia is used to promote realism on the real use case scenario.Results have shown that the proposed model consistently outperformed other models.
