Identifying Malicious DNS Tunnel Tools from DoH Traffic Using Hierarchical Machine Learning Classification

Autor: Mitsuhashi, Rikima, Satoh, Akihiro, Jin, Yong, Iida, Katsuyoshi, Shinagawa, Takahiro, Takai, Yoshiaki
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Popis: 24th International Conference on Information Security, ISC 2021, Virtual Event, November 10–12, 2021
Although the DNS over HTTPS (DoH) protocol has desirable properties for Internet users such as privacy and security, it also causes a problem in that network administrators are prevented from detecting suspicious network traffic generated by malware and malicious tools. To support their efforts in maintaining network security, in this paper, we propose a novel system that identifies malicious DNS tunnel tools through a hierarchical classification method that uses machine-learning technology on DoH traffic. We implemented a prototype of the proposed system and evaluated its performance on the CIRA-CIC-DoHBrw-2020 dataset, obtaining 99.81% accuracy in DoH traffic filtering, 99.99% accuracy in suspicious DoH traffic detection, and 97.22% accuracy in identification of malicious DNS tunnel tools.
Databáze: OpenAIRE