Presentation 2020-11-26
Malware detection for IoT devices using whitelist and Isolation Forest
Masataka Nakahara, Norihiro Okui, Yasuaki Kobayashi, Yutaka Miyake,
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Abstract(in English) As the number of IoT (Internet of Things) devices increases, the countermeasures against cyberattacks related to IoT devices become more important. Although methods to prevent malware infection to IoT devices are important, such prevention becomes difficult due to sophisticated infection steps and lack of computational resource for security software in IoT devices. Therefore, detecting malware infection of devices is also important to suppress malware spread. As the types of IoT devices and malwares are increasing, advanced anomaly detection method like machine learning is required to find malware infected devices. Because IoT devices cannot analyze own behavior by using machine learning due to limited computing resources, such analysis should be executed at gateway devices to the Internet. So we have proposed an architecture for detecting malware behavior using flow data of packets instead of whole packet information. As this proposal only uses flow information of each IoT device, it can reduce the storage space taken up by data and can analyze number of IoT devices with low computational resources. We performed the malware traffic detection on proposed architecture by using machine learning algorithms, but there were a lot of false positive detection. Therefore, in this paper, we propose hybrid system using machine learning and white list automatically generated from the packet of devices. The white list eliminated benign packets from the target of malware traffic detection, and it can decrease the false positive rate. We evaluate the performance of proposed method and show the efficiency.
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Keyword(in English) IoT / anomaly detection / machine learning / white list
Paper # ICSS2020-20
Date of Issue 2020-11-19 (ICSS)

Conference Information
Committee ICSS
Conference Date 2020/11/26(2days)
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Place (in English) Online
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Topics (in English) Security, etc.
Chair Hiroki Takakura(NII)
Vice Chair Katsunari Yoshioka(Yokohama National Univ.) / Kazunori Kamiya(NTT)
Secretary Katsunari Yoshioka(NICT) / Kazunori Kamiya(KDDI labs.)
Assistant Keisuke Kito(Mitsubishi Electric) / Toshihiro Yamauchi(Okayama Univ.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Information and Communication System Security
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Malware detection for IoT devices using whitelist and Isolation Forest
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) IoT
Keyword(2) anomaly detection
Keyword(3) machine learning
Keyword(4) white list
1st Author's Name Masataka Nakahara
1st Author's Affiliation KDDI Research, Inc.(KDDI Research)
2nd Author's Name Norihiro Okui
2nd Author's Affiliation KDDI Research, Inc.(KDDI Research)
3rd Author's Name Yasuaki Kobayashi
3rd Author's Affiliation KDDI Research, Inc.(KDDI Research)
4th Author's Name Yutaka Miyake
4th Author's Affiliation KDDI Research, Inc.(KDDI Research)
Date 2020-11-26
Paper # ICSS2020-20
Volume (vol) vol.120
Number (no) ICSS-264
Page pp.pp.7-12(ICSS),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2020-11-19 (ICSS)