The illegal use of compromised email accounts by adversaries can have severe consequences for enterprises and society.Detecting compromised email accounts is more challenging than in the social network field,where ema...The illegal use of compromised email accounts by adversaries can have severe consequences for enterprises and society.Detecting compromised email accounts is more challenging than in the social network field,where email accounts have only a few interaction events(sending and receiving).To address the issue of insufficient features,we propose a novel approach to detecting compromised accounts by combining time zone differences and alternate logins to identify abnormal behavior.Based on this approach,we propose a compromised email account detection framework that relies on widely available and less sensitive login logs and does not require labels.Our framework characterizes login behaviors to identify logins that do not belong to the account owner and outputs a list of account-subnet pairs ranked by their likelihood of having abnormal login relationships.This approach reduces the number of account-subnet pairs that need to be investigated and provides a reference for investigation priority.Our evaluation demonstrates that our method can detect most email accounts that have been accessed by disclosed malicious IP addresses and outperforms similar research.Additionally,our framework has the capability to uncover undisclosed malicious IP addresses.展开更多
基金supported by the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS(No.2019163)the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.XDC02040100)the Key Laboratory of Network Assessment Technology at Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Key Laboratory of Network security and Protection Technology.
文摘The illegal use of compromised email accounts by adversaries can have severe consequences for enterprises and society.Detecting compromised email accounts is more challenging than in the social network field,where email accounts have only a few interaction events(sending and receiving).To address the issue of insufficient features,we propose a novel approach to detecting compromised accounts by combining time zone differences and alternate logins to identify abnormal behavior.Based on this approach,we propose a compromised email account detection framework that relies on widely available and less sensitive login logs and does not require labels.Our framework characterizes login behaviors to identify logins that do not belong to the account owner and outputs a list of account-subnet pairs ranked by their likelihood of having abnormal login relationships.This approach reduces the number of account-subnet pairs that need to be investigated and provides a reference for investigation priority.Our evaluation demonstrates that our method can detect most email accounts that have been accessed by disclosed malicious IP addresses and outperforms similar research.Additionally,our framework has the capability to uncover undisclosed malicious IP addresses.
