Presentation 2019-07-04
Traffic Feature-based Botnet Detection Scheme Emphasizing the Importance of Long Patterns
Yichen An, Shuichiro Haruta, Sanghun Choi, Iwao Sasase,
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Abstract(in English) The botnet detection is imperative. Among several detection schemes, the promising one uses the communication sequences. The main idea of that scheme is that the communication sequences represent special feature since they are controlled by programs. That sequence is tokenized to truncated sequences by $n$-gram and the numbers of each pattern's occurrence are used as a feature vector. However, although the features are normalized by the total number of all patterns' occurrences, the number of occurrences in larger $n$ are less than those of smaller $n$. That is, regardless of the value of $n$, the previous scheme normalizes it by the total number of all patterns' occurrences. As a result, normalized long patterns' features become very small value and are hidden by others. In order to overcome this shortcoming, in this paper, we propose tit. We realize the emphasizing by two ideas. The first idea is normalizing occurrences by the total number of occurrences in each $n$ instead of the total number of all patterns' occurrences. By doing this, smaller occurrences in larger $n$ are normalized by smaller values and the feature becomes more balanced with larger value. The second idea is giving weights to the normalized features by calculating ranks of the normalized feature. By weighting features according to the ranks, we can get more outstanding features of longer patterns. By the computer simulation with real dataset, we show the effectiveness of our scheme.
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Keyword(in English) botnet detectionmachine learningfeature emphasizing
Paper # CS2019-18
Date of Issue 2019-06-27 (CS)

Conference Information
Committee CS
Conference Date 2019/7/4(2days)
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Place (in English) Amami City Social Welfare Center
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Next Generation Networks, Access Networks, Broadband Access, Power Line Communications, Wireless Communication Systems, Coding Systems, etc.
Chair Hidenori Nakazato(Waseda Univ.)
Vice Chair Jun Terada(NTT)
Secretary Jun Terada(Waseda Univ.)
Assistant Kazutaka Hara(NTT) / Hiroyuki Saito(OKI)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Communication Systems
Language ENG
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Title (in English) Traffic Feature-based Botnet Detection Scheme Emphasizing the Importance of Long Patterns
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) botnet detectionmachine learningfeature emphasizing
1st Author's Name Yichen An
1st Author's Affiliation Keio University(Keio Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Shuichiro Haruta
2nd Author's Affiliation Keio University(Keio Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Sanghun Choi
3rd Author's Affiliation Keio University(Keio Univ.)
4th Author's Name Iwao Sasase
4th Author's Affiliation Keio University(Keio Univ.)
Date 2019-07-04
Paper # CS2019-18
Volume (vol) vol.119
Number (no) CS-101
Page pp.pp.31-35(CS),
#Pages 5
Date of Issue 2019-06-27 (CS)