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11th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'06)
Scan Detection on Very Large Networks Using Logistic Regression Modeling
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
June 26-June 29
ISBN: 0-7695-2588-1
Carrie Gates, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Joshua J. McNutt, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Joseph B. Kadane, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Marc I. Kellner, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Scanning activity is a common activity on the Internet today, representing malicious activity such as information gathering by a motivated adversary or automated tools searching for vulnerable hosts (e.g., worms). Many scan detection techniques have been developed; however, their focus has been on smaller networks where packet-level information is available, or where internal characteristics of the network are known. For large networks, such as those of ISPs, large corporations or government organizations, this information might not be available. This paper presents a model of scans that can be used given only unidirectional flow data. The model uses a Bayesian logistic regression, which was developed using a combination of expert opinion and manually-classified training data. It is shown to have a detection rate of 95.5% with a false positive rate of 0.4% overall when tested against a set of 300 TCP events.
Citation:
Carrie Gates, Joshua J. McNutt, Joseph B. Kadane, Marc I. Kellner, "Scan Detection on Very Large Networks Using Logistic Regression Modeling," iscc, pp.402-408, 11th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'06), 2006
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