Title
Modeling of IP Scanning Activities with Hidden Markov Models: Darknet Case Study
Abstract
We propose a methodology based on Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) to model scanning activities monitored by a darknet. The HMMs of scanning activities are built on the basis of the number of scanned IP addresses within a time window and fitted using mixtures of Poisson distributions. Our methodology is applied on real data traces collected from a darknet and generated by two large scale scanners, ZMap and Shodan. We demonstrated that the built models are able to characterize their scanning activities.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/NTMS.2016.7792461
2016 8th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
IP scanning activity modeling,hidden Markov models,HMM,darknet case study,IP address scanning,Poisson distributions,data traces,ZMap,Shodan
Markov process,Darknet,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Poisson distribution,Hidden Markov model,Machine learning,The Internet
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5090-2915-0
0
0.34
References 
Authors
5
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Giulia De Santis120.72
Abdelkader Lahmadi29018.46
Jérôme François3161.38
Olivier Festor466585.40