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Equitable machine learning algorithms to probe over P2P botnets

Publication Type : Conference Paper

Thematic Areas : TIFAC-CORE in Cyber Security

Publisher : Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer Verlag.

Source : Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Frontiers in Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications (FICTA) 2015, Volume 404 of the series Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing , pp. 13-21, 2016.

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Keywords : Algorithms, Artificial intelligence, Botnet, Botnet detections, Classification algorithm, Command and control, Computation theory, Decision trees, HTTP, Intelligent computing, K-nearest neighbor classifiers (KNN), Learning algorithms, Learning systems, malware, Multi Layer Perceptron, Nearest neighbor search, Network security, Peer to peer, Supervised learning, Supervised machine learning, Viruses

Campus : Amritapuri

School : Centre for Cybersecurity Systems and Networks

Center : TIFAC CORE in Cyber Security

Department : cyber Security

Year : 2016

Abstract : Cyber security has become very significant research area in line due to the increase in the number of malicious attacks by both state and nonstate actors. Ideally, one would like to properly secure the machines from being infected by viruses of any form. Nowadays, botnets have become an integral part of the Internet and the main drive for creating them is for financial gain. A bot conceals itself using a secret canal to communicate with its governing command-and-control server. Botnets are well-ordered from end to end using protocols such as IRC, HTTP, and P2P. Of all HTTP-based and IRC-based, P2P botnet detection became a challenging task because of its decentralized nature. The paper focuses on the techniques that are predominantly used in botnet detection and we formulate a method for detecting the P2P botnets using supervised machine learning algorithms such as random forest (RF), multilayer perceptron (MLP), and K-nearest neighbor classifier (KNN). We analyze the performance of selected algorithms there by revealing the best classification algorithm for detecting P2P botnets. © Springer India 2016.

Cite this Research Publication : P. Bharathula and N. Menon, M., “Equitable machine learning algorithms to probe over P2P botnets”, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol. 404, pp. 13-21, 2016.

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