基于规则的BitTorrent流量探测

提出了一种方法来探测BitTorrent流量.该方法分析BitTorrent协议,识别BitTorrent协议特征,并对这些特征设定规则,使其能够被入侵探测系统识别,然后通过带有SNORT(一种开放源代码的IDS)的网络监控这些特征,达到探测数据流的目的.最后指出了探测网络流量研究的新方向.     

Intrusion detection in computer networks by a modular ensemble of one-class classifiers

Since the early days of research on intrusion detection, anomaly-based approaches have been proposed to detect intrusion attempts. Attacks are detected as anomalies when compared to a model of normal (legitimate) events. Anomaly-based approaches typically produce a relatively large number of false alarms compared to signature-based IDS. However, anomaly-based IDS are able to detect never-before-seen attacks. As new types of attacks are generated at an increasing pace and the process of signature generation is slow, it turns out that signature-based IDS can be easily evaded by new attacks. The ability of anomaly-based IDS to detect attacks never observed in the wild has stirred up a renewed interest in anomaly detection. In particular, recent work focused on unsupervised or unlabeled anomaly detection, due to the fact that it is very hard and expensive to obtain a labeled dataset containing only pure normal events.The unlabeled approaches proposed so far for network IDS focused on modeling the normal network traffic considered as a whole. As network traffic related to different protocols or services exhibits different characteristics, this paper proposes an unlabeled Network Anomaly IDS based on a modular Multiple Classifier System (MCS). Each module is designed to model a particular group of similar protocols or network services. The use of a modular MCS allows the designer to choose a different model and decision threshold for different (groups of) network services. This also allows the designer to tune the false alarm rate and detection rate produced by each module to optimize the overall performance of the ensemble. Experimental results on the KDD-Cup 1999 dataset show that the proposed anomaly IDS achieves high attack detection rate and low false alarm rate at the same time.     

Processing intrusion detection alert aggregates with time series modeling

The main use of intrusion detection systems (IDS) is to detect attacks against information systems and networks. Normal use of the network and its functioning can also be monitored with an IDS. It can be used to control, for example, the use of management and signaling protocols, or the network traffic related to some less critical aspects of system policies. These complementary usages can generate large numbers of alerts, but still, in operational environment, the collection of such data may be mandated by the security policy. Processing this type of alerts presents a different problem than correlating alerts directly related to attacks or filtering incorrectly issued alerts.We aggregate individual alerts to alert flows, and then process the flows instead of individual alerts for two reasons. First, this is necessary to cope with the large quantity of alerts – a common problem among all alert correlation approaches. Second, individual alert’s relevancy is often indeterminable, but irrelevant alerts and interesting phenomena can be identified at the flow level. This is the particularity of the alerts created by the complementary uses of IDSes.Flows consisting of alerts related to normal system behavior can contain strong regularities. We propose to model these regularities using non-stationary autoregressive models. Once modeled, the regularities can be filtered out to relieve the security operator from manual analysis of true, but low impact alerts. We present experimental results using these models to process voluminous alert flows from an operational network.     

A hybrid intrusion detection system design for computer network security

Intrusions detection systems (IDSs) are systems that try to detect attacks as they occur or after the attacks took place. IDSs collect network traffic information from some point on the network or computer system and then use this information to secure the network. Intrusion detection systems can be misuse-detection or anomaly detection based. Misuse-detection based IDSs can only detect known attacks whereas anomaly detection based IDSs can also detect new attacks by using heuristic methods. In this paper we propose a hybrid IDS by combining the two approaches in one system. The hybrid IDS is obtained by combining packet header anomaly detection (PHAD) and network traffic anomaly detection (NETAD) which are anomaly-based IDSs with the misuse-based IDS Snort which is an open-source project.The hybrid IDS obtained is evaluated using the MIT Lincoln Laboratories network traffic data (IDEVAL) as a testbed. Evaluation compares the number of attacks detected by misuse-based IDS on its own, with the hybrid IDS obtained combining anomaly-based and misuse-based IDSs and shows that the hybrid IDS is a more powerful system.     

A novel intelligent approach for man-in-the-middle attacks detection over internet of things environments based on message queuing telemetry transport

One of the most common attacks is man-in-the-middle (MitM) which, due to its complex behaviour, is difficult to detect by traditional cyber-attack detection systems. MitM attacks on internet of things systems take advantage of special features of the protocols and cause system disruptions, making them invisible to legitimate elements. In this work, an intrusion detection system (IDS), where intelligent models can be deployed, is the approach to detect this type of attack considering network alterations. Therefore, this paper presents a novel method to develop the intelligent model used by the IDS, being this method based on a hybrid process. The first stage of the process implements a feature extraction method, while the second one applies different supervised classification techniques, both over a message queuing telemetry transport (MQTT) dataset compiled by authors in previous works. The contribution shows excellent performance for any compared classification methods. Likewise, the best results are obtained using the method with the highest computational cost. Thanks to this, a functional IDS will be able to prevent MQTT attacks.     

Association Rule Mining Frequent-Pattern-Based Intrusion Detection in Network

In the network security system, intrusion detection plays a significant role. The network security system detects the malicious actions in the network and also conforms the availability, integrity and confidentiality of data information resources. Intrusion identification system can easily detect the false positive alerts. If large number of false positive alerts are created then it makes intrusion detection system as difficult to differentiate the false positive alerts from genuine attacks. Many research works have been done. The issues in the existing algorithms are more memory space and need more time to execute the transactions of records. This paper proposes a novel framework of network security Intrusion Detection System (IDS) using Modified Frequent Pattern (MFP-Tree) via K-means algorithm. The accuracy rate of Modified Frequent Pattern Tree (MFPT)-K means method in finding the various attacks are Normal 94.89%, for DoS based attack 98.34%, for User to Root (U2R) attacks got 96.73%, Remote to Local (R2L) got 95.89% and Probe attack got 92.67% and is optimal when it is compared with other existing algorithms of K-Means and APRIORI.     

Training a neural-network based intrusion detector to recognizenovel attacks

While many commercial intrusion detection systems (IDS) are deployed, the protection they afford is modest. State-of-the-art IDS produce voluminous alerts, most false alarms, and function mainly by recognizing the signatures of known attacks so that novel attacks slip past them. Attempts have been made to create systems that recognize the signature of “normal,” in the hope that they will then detect attacks, known or novel. These systems are often confounded by the extreme variability of nominal behavior. The paper describes an experiment with an IDS composed of a hierarchy of neural networks (NN) that functions as a true anomaly detector. This result is achieved by monitoring selected areas of network behavior, such as protocols, that are predictable in advance. While this does not cover the entire attack space, a considerable number of attacks are carried out by violating the expectations of the protocol/operating system designer. Within this focus, the NNs are trained using data that spans the entire normal space. These detectors are able to recognize attacks that were not specifically presented during training. We show that using small detectors in a hierarchy gives a better result than a single large detector. Some techniques can be used not only to detect anomalies, but to distinguish among them     

MDCI:一个分布式检测DDoS攻击的方法

鉴于DDoS攻击分布式、汇聚性的特点，实现分布在大规模网络环境中的多个IDS系统间合作检测有助于在攻击流形成规模前合成攻击全貌并适当反应．MDCI系统首次提出了环形合作模式，即构建一个环重要网络信息资源的IDS系统合作组，通过组内节点同信息共享和警报关联分析，迅速判定DDoS攻击、MDCI系统中，采用报头内容分析和反向散射分析相结合的方法对本地捕获的数据报进行分析并采用统一标准格式对可疑特征进行报警；采用数据流分类概率评估的方法实现合作结点间警报信息的关联分析，从而合成攻击的全貌．通过实验可以看到，该系统有效地提高了针对DDoS攻击的预警速度．     

网络入侵报警信息实时融合处理模型

针对分布式入侵检测和网络安全预警所需要解决的问题,对多传感器数据融合技术进行了研究。在分析IDS警报信息之间的各种复杂关系的基础上,提出了一个警报信息实时融合处理模型,并根据该模型建立警报信息融合处理系统。实时融合来自多异构IDS传感器的警报信息,形成关于入侵事件的攻击序列图,在此基础上进行威胁评估及攻击预测。该模型拓展了漏报推断功能,以减少漏报警带来的影响,使得到的攻击场景更为完整。实验结果表明,根据该模型建立的融合处理系统应用效果好,具有很高的准确率和警报缩减率。     

入侵检测系统报警信息融合模型的设计与实现*

开展入侵检测系统报警信息融合技术的研究,对解决目前入侵检测系统(IDS)存在的误报、漏报、报警信息难管理、报警信息层次低等问题,以及提高网络预警能力等均具有十分重要的意义。首先分析了目前入侵检测系统存在的问题,提出了进行报警信息融合的必要性,最后提出并实现了一个入侵检测系统报警信息融合的可视化模型。     

Securing Cloud Computing from Flash Crowd Attack Using Ensemble Intrusion Detection System

Flash Crowd attacks are a form of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that is becoming increasingly difficult to detect due to its ability to imitate normal user behavior in Cloud Computing (CC). Botnets are often used by attackers to perform a wide range of DDoS attacks. With advancements in technology, bots are now able to simulate DDoS attacks as flash crowd events, making them difficult to detect. When it comes to application layer DDoS attacks, the Flash Crowd attack that occurs during a Flash Event is viewed as the most intricate issue. This is mainly because it can imitate typical user behavior, leading to a substantial influx of requests that can overwhelm the server by consuming either its network bandwidth or resources. Therefore, identifying these types of attacks on web servers has become crucial, particularly in the CC. In this article, an efficient intrusion detection method is proposed based on White Shark Optimizer and ensemble classifier (Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and LighGBM). Experiments were conducted using a CICIDS 2017 dataset to evaluate the performance of the proposed method in real-life situations. The proposed IDS achieved superior results, with 95.84% accuracy, 96.15% precision, 95.54% recall, and 95.84% F1 measure. Flash crowd attacks are challenging to detect, but the proposed IDS has proven its effectiveness in identifying such attacks in CC and holds potential for future improvement.     

Effects of cyber security knowledge on attack detection

Ensuring cyber security is a complex task that relies on domain knowledge and requires cognitive abilities to determine possible threats from large amounts of network data. This study investigates how knowledge in network operations and information security influence the detection of intrusions in a simple network. We developed a simplified Intrusion Detection System (IDS), which allows us to examine how individuals with or without knowledge in cyber security detect malicious events and declare an attack based on a sequence of network events. Our results indicate that more knowledge in cyber security facilitated the correct detection of malicious events and decreased the false classification of benign events as malicious. However, knowledge had less contribution when judging whether a sequence of events representing a cyber-attack. While knowledge of cyber security helps in the detection of malicious events, situated knowledge regarding a specific network at hand is needed to make accurate detection decisions. Responses from participants that have knowledge in cyber security indicated that they were able to distinguish between different types of cyber-attacks, whereas novice participants were not sensitive to the attack types. We explain how these findings relate to cognitive processes and we discuss their implications for improving cyber security.     

Projecting Cyberattacks Through Variable-Length Markov Models

Previous works in the area of network security have emphasized the creation of intrusion detection systems (IDSs) to flag malicious network traffic and computer usage, and the development of algorithms to analyze IDS alerts. One possible byproduct of correlating raw IDS data are attack tracks, which consist of ordered collections of alerts belonging to a single multistage attack. This paper presents a variable-length Markov model (VLMM) that captures the sequential properties of attack tracks, allowing for the prediction of likely future actions on ongoing attacks. The proposed approach is able to adapt to newly observed attack sequences without requiring specific network information. Simulation results are presented to demonstrate the performance of VLMM predictors and their adaptiveness to new attack scenarios.      

Risk balance defense approach against intrusions for network server

The paper presents a new defense approach based on risk balance to protect network servers from intrusion activities. We construct and implement a risk balance system, which consists of three modules, including a comprehensive alert processing module, an online risk assessment module, and a risk balance response decision-making module. The alert processing module improves the information quality of intrusion detection system (IDS) raw alerts by reducing false alerts rate, forming alert threads, and computing general parameters from the alert threads. The risk assessment module provides accurate evaluation of risks accordingly to alert threads. Based on the risk assessment, the response decision-making module is able to make right response decisions and perform very well in terms of noise immunization. Having advantages over conventional intrusion response systems, the risk balancer protects network servers not by directly blocking intrusion activities but by redirecting related network traffics and changing service platform. In this way, the system configurations that favor attackers are changed, and attacks are stopped with little impact on services to users. Therefore, the proposed risk balance approach is a good solution to not only the trade-off between the effectiveness and the negative effects of responses but also the false response problems caused by both IDS false-positive alerts and duplicated alerts.     

Decentralized multi-dimensional alert correlation for collaborative intrusion detection

The growth in coordinated network attacks such as scans, worms and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks is a profound threat to the security of the Internet. Collaborative intrusion detection systems (CIDSs) have the potential to detect these attacks, by enabling all the participating intrusion detection systems (IDSs) to share suspicious intelligence with each other to form a global view of the current security threats. Current correlation algorithms in CIDSs are either too simple to capture the important characteristics of attacks, or too computationally expensive to detect attacks in a timely manner. We propose a decentralized, multi-dimensional alert correlation algorithm for CIDSs to address these challenges. A multi-dimensional alert clustering algorithm is used to extract the significant intrusion patterns from raw intrusion alerts. A two-stage correlation algorithm is used, which first clusters alerts locally at each IDS, before reporting significant alert patterns to a global correlation stage. We introduce a probabilistic approach to decide when a pattern at the local stage is sufficiently significant to warrant correlation at the global stage. We then implement the proposed two-stage correlation algorithm in a fully distributed CIDS. Our experiments on a large real-world intrusion data set show that our approach can achieve a significant reduction in the number of alert messages generated by the local correlation stage with negligible false negatives compared to a centralized scheme. The proposed probabilistic threshold approach gains a significant improvement in detection accuracy in a stealthy attack scenario, compared to a naive scheme that uses the same threshold at the local and global stages. A large scale experiment on PlanetLab shows that our decentralized architecture is significantly more efficient than a centralized approach in terms of the time required to correlate alerts.     

入侵检测系统中报警验证模块的设计与实现

传统入侵检测系统虽然可以根据特征匹配的方法检测出攻击企图,却无法验证攻击企图是否成功,生成的报警不仅数量巨大而且误警率很高。该文提出一种结合漏洞扫描工具对入侵检测系统生成的报警进行验证的方法,根据被攻击主机是否包含能使攻击成功的漏洞来判定攻击能否成功,对攻击的目标主机不存在对应漏洞的报警降低优先级,从而提高报警质量。说明了报警验证模型各部分的设计和实现方法,系统运行结果显示该方法能有效地压缩报警量,降低误警率,帮助管理员从大量数据中找到最应该关注的真实报警。     

数据挖掘技术在入侵检测中的应用研究

随着Internet迅速发展,许多新的网络攻击不断涌现。传统的依赖手工和经验方式建立的基于专家系统的入侵检测系统,由于面临着新的攻击方式及系统升级方面的挑战,已经很难满足现有的应用要求。因此,有必要寻求一种能从大量网络数据中自动发现入侵模式的方法来有效发现入侵。这种方法的主要思想是利用数据挖掘方法,从经预处理的包含网络连接信息的审计数据中提取能够区分正常和入侵的规则。这些规则将来可以被用来检测入侵行为。文中将数据挖掘技术应用到入侵检测中,并对其中一些关键算法进行了讨论。最后提出了一个基于数据挖掘的入侵检测模型。实验证明该模型与传统系统相比,在自适应和可扩展方面具有一定的优势。     

A decision support system for constructing an alert classification model

As the rapid growth of network attacking tools, patterns of network intrusion events change gradually. Although many researches had been proposed to analyze network intrusion behaviors in accordance with low-level network data, they still suffer a large mount of false alerts and result in difficulties for network administrators to discover useful information from these alerts. To reduce the load of administrators, by collecting and analyzing unknown attack sequences systematically, administrators can do the duty of fixing the root causes. Due to the different characteristics of each intrusion, none of analysis methods can correlate IDS alerts precisely and discover all kinds of real intrusion patterns. Therefore, an alert-based decision support system is proposed in this paper to construct an alert classification model for on-line network behavior monitoring. The architecture of decision support system consists of three phases: Alert Preprocessing Phase, Model Constructing Phase and Rule Refining Phase. The Alert Processing Phase is used to transform IDS alerts into alert transactions with specific data format as alert subsequences, where an alert sequence is a kind of well-aggregated alert transaction format to discover intrusion behaviors. Besides, the Model Constructing Phase is used to construct three kinds of rule classes: normal rule classes, intrusion rule classes and suspicious rule classes, to filter false alert patterns and analyze each existing or unknown alert patterns; each rule class represents a set of classification rules. Normal rule class, a set of false alert classification rules, can be trained by using sequential pattern mining approach in an attack-free environment. Intrusion rule classes, a set of known intrusion classification rules, and suspicious rule classes, a set of novel intrusion classification rules, can be trained in a simulated attacking environment using several well-known rootkits and labeling by experts. Finally, the Rule Refining Phase is used to change the classification flags of alert sequence across different time intervals. According to the urgent situations of different levels, Network administrators can do event protecting or vulnerability repairing, even or cause tracing of attacks. Therefore, the decision support system can prevent attacks effectively, find novel attack patterns exactly and reduce the load of administrators efficiently.     

基于深度Q网络的电力工控网络异常检测系统

电力是指以电能作为动力的能源,完整的电力系统包括发电、输电、变电、配电和用电等环节。电力是关系国计民生的基础产业,电力供应和安全事关国家安全战略,事关经济社会发展全局。工业自动化和控制系统（简称“工控”）作为电力的感官和中枢神经系统,确保其网络安全,使其始终处于稳定可靠运行状态,对于保障电力安全运营至关重要。由于大部分网络都是高度互联的,因此都易受到网络攻击的威胁。虽然基于网络的入侵检测系统可以将入侵警告和安全响应进行很好的结合,但是随着技术的不断发展,攻击变得越来越普遍且难以检测,其中逃逸技术就是这类技术的一个代表,它可以通过伪装修改网络数据流以此来逃避入侵检测系统的检测。结合所学知识和电力工控网络的特点,提出一种基于深度强化学习的电力工控网络入侵检测系统,深度强化学习的算法融合神经网络和Q-learning的方法来对网络中的异常现象进行训练,通过训练使系统能及时地检测出入侵行为并发出警告。     

An autonomous labeling approach to support vector machines algorithms for network traffic anomaly detection

In the past years, several support vector machines (SVM) novelty detection approaches have been applied on the network intrusion detection field. The main advantage of these approaches is that they can characterize normal traffic even when trained with datasets containing not only normal traffic but also a number of attacks. Unfortunately, these algorithms seem to be accurate only when the normal traffic vastly outnumbers the number of attacks present in the dataset. A situation which can not be always hold.This work presents an approach for autonomous labeling of normal traffic as a way of dealing with situations where class distribution does not present the imbalance required for SVM algorithms. In this case, the autonomous labeling process is made by SNORT, a misuse-based intrusion detection system. Experiments conducted on the 1998 DARPA dataset show that the use of the proposed autonomous labeling approach not only outperforms existing SVM alternatives but also, under some attack distributions, obtains improvements over SNORT itself.