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A Visualized Botnet Detection System based Deep Learning for the Internet of Things Networks of Smart Cities

Publication Type : Journal Article

Publisher : IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Source : IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, p.1-1 (2020)

Keywords : Botnet, Botnet detection, Botnets, Deep learning, Internet of things, IP networks, malware, Servers, Smart cities, Visualization

Campus : Coimbatore

School : School of Engineering

Center : Computational Engineering and Networking

Department : Center for Computational Engineering and Networking (CEN), Electronics and Communication

Year : 2020

Abstract : Internet of things (IoT) applications for smart cities have currently become a primary target for advanced persistent threats of botnets. This paper proposes a botnet detection system based on a two-level deep learning framework for semantically discriminating botnets and legitimate behaviors at the application layer of the domain name system (DNS) services. In the first level of the framework, the similarity measures of DNS queries are estimated using Siamese networks based on a predefined threshold for selecting the most frequent DNS information across Ethernet connections. In the second level of the framework, a Domain Generation Algorithm (DGA) based on deep learning architectures is suggested for categorizing normal and abnormal domain names. The framework is highly scalable on a commodity hardware server due to its potential design of analyzing DNS data. The proposed framework was evaluated using two data sets and was compared with recent deep learning models. Various visualization methods were also employed to understand the characteristics of the data set and to visualize the embedding features. The experimental results revealed substantial improvements in terms of F1-score, speed of detection and false alarm rate

Cite this Research Publication : V. R, Alazab, M., Srinivasan, S., Pham, Q. - V., Padannayil, S. Kotti, and Simran, K., “A Visualized Botnet Detection System based Deep Learning for the Internet of Things Networks of Smart Cities”, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, pp. 1-1, 2020.

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