Title
Evaluation of an Anomaly Detector for Routers Using Parameterizable Malware in an IoT Ecosystem
Abstract
This work explores the evaluation of a machine learning anomaly detector using custom-made parameterizable malware in an Internet of Things (IoT) Ecosystem. It is assumed that the malware has infected, and resides on, the Linux router that serves other devices on the network, as depicted in Fig. 1. This IoT Ecosystem was developed as a testbed to evaluate the efficacy of a behavior-based anomaly detector. The malware consists of three types of custom-made malware: ransomware, cryptominer, and keylogger, which all have exfiltration capabilities to the network. The parameterization of the malware gives the malware samples multiple degrees of freedom, specifically relating to the rate and size of data exfiltration. The anomaly detector uses feature sets crafted from system calls and network traffic, and uses a Support Vector Machine (SVM) for behavioral-based anomaly detection. The custom-made malware is used to evaluate the situations where the SVM is effective, as well as the situations where it is not effective.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1007/978-981-19-0468-4_5
Ubiquitous Security
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Internet of Things, Malware, Routers, Malware detection, Linux, Machine learning, Anomaly detector
Conference
1557
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1865-0929
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
John Carter110.68
Spiros Mancoridis288856.82