Title
Machine-learning approaches for P2P botnet detection using signal-processing techniques
Abstract
The distributed and decentralized nature of P2P botnets makes their detection a challenging task. Further, the botmasters continuously try to improve their botnets in order to evade existing detection mechanisms. Thus, although a lot of research has been seen in this field, their detection continues to be an important area of research. This work proposes a novel approach for the detection of P2P botnets by converting the 'time-domain' network communications of P2P botnets to 'frequency-domain'. We adopt a signal-processing based approach by treating the traffic of each pair of nodes seen in network traffic as a 'signal'. Apart from the regular 'network behavior' based features, we extract features based on Discrete Fourier Transforms and Shannon's Entropy theory to build supervised machine learning models for the detection of P2P botnets. Herein we present encouraging results obtained from the preliminary experiments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2611286.2611318
DEBS
Keywords
Field
DocType
security,peer-to-peer,botnet,network monitoring,fourier transform,classification,entropy,machine learning,learning
Signal processing,Peer-to-peer,Botnet,Computer science,Fourier transform,Artificial intelligence,Discrete Fourier transform,Network behavior,Entropy (information theory),Machine learning,Distributed computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
9
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pratik Narang16011.31
Vansh Khurana210.35
Chittaranjan Hota312916.89