DCA for bot detection

Al-Hammadi, Yousof, Aickelin, Uwe and Greensmith, Julie (2008) DCA for bot detection. In: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2008: CEC 2008. IEEE, 1807 - 1816.

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Abstract

Ensuring the security of computers is a non-trivial task, with many techniques used by malicious users to compromise these systems. In recent years a new threat has emerged in the form of networks of hijacked zombie machines used to perform complex distributed attacks such as denial of service and to obtain sensitive data such as password information. These zombie machines are said to be infected with a dasiahotpsila - a malicious piece of software which is installed on a host machine and is controlled by a remote attacker, termed the dasiabotmaster of a botnetpsila. In this work, we use the biologically inspired dendritic cell algorithm (DCA) to detect the existence of a single hot on a compromised host machine. The DCA is an immune-inspired algorithm based on an abstract model of the behaviour of the dendritic cells of the human body. The basis of anomaly detection performed by the DCA is facilitated using the correlation of behavioural attributes such as keylogging and packet flooding behaviour. The results of the application of the DCA to the detection of a single hot show that the algorithm is a successful technique for the detection of such malicious software without responding to normally running programs.

Item Type: Book Section
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1015440
Additional Information: Originally presented at the IEEE World Conference on Computational Intelligence, held in Hong Kong, 6-8 June 2008.
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Science > School of Computer Science
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Depositing User: Aickelin, Professor Uwe
Date Deposited: 08 May 2009 09:22
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 20:27
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/982

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