scholarly journals Detection of Algorithmically Generated Domain Names Using the Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network with Spatial Pyramid Pooling

Entropy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (9) ◽  
pp. 1058
Author(s):  
Zhanghui Liu ◽  
Yudong Zhang ◽  
Yuzhong Chen ◽  
Xinwen Fan ◽  
Chen Dong
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Network Traffic ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Recall Rate ◽  
Domain Name ◽  
Sample Distribution ◽  
Domain Names ◽  
Spatial Pyramid Pooling ◽  
Spatial Pyramid

Domain generation algorithms (DGAs) use specific parameters as random seeds to generate a large number of random domain names to prevent malicious domain name detection. This greatly increases the difficulty of detecting and defending against botnets and malware. Traditional models for detecting algorithmically generated domain names generally rely on manually extracting statistical characteristics from the domain names or network traffic and then employing classifiers to distinguish the algorithmically generated domain names. These models always require labor intensive manual feature engineering. In contrast, most state-of-the-art models based on deep neural networks are sensitive to imbalance in the sample distribution and cannot fully exploit the discriminative class features in domain names or network traffic, leading to decreased detection accuracy. To address these issues, we employ the borderline synthetic minority over-sampling algorithm (SMOTE) to improve sample balance. We also propose a recurrent convolutional neural network with spatial pyramid pooling (RCNN-SPP) to extract discriminative and distinctive class features. The recurrent convolutional neural network combines a convolutional neural network (CNN) and a bi-directional long short-term memory network (Bi-LSTM) to extract both the semantic and contextual information from domain names. We then employ the spatial pyramid pooling strategy to refine the contextual representation by capturing multi-scale contextual information from domain names. The experimental results from different domain name datasets demonstrate that our model can achieve 92.36% accuracy, an 89.55% recall rate, a 90.46% F1-score, and 95.39% AUC in identifying DGA and legitimate domain names, and it can achieve 92.45% accuracy rate, a 90.12% recall rate, a 90.86% F1-score, and 96.59% AUC in multi-classification problems. It achieves significant improvement over existing models in terms of accuracy and robustness.

scholarly journals Compact Spatial Pyramid Pooling Deep Convolutional Neural Network Based Hand Gestures Decoder

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (21) ◽  
pp. 7898
Author(s):  
Akm Ashiquzzaman ◽  
Hyunmin Lee ◽  
Kwangki Kim ◽  
Hye-Young Kim ◽  
Jaehyung Park ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Fixed Number ◽  
Hand Gesture ◽  
Computing Power ◽  
Classical Models ◽  
Spatial Pyramid Pooling ◽  
Gesture Input ◽  
Spatial Pyramid

Current deep learning convolutional neural network (DCNN) -based hand gesture detectors with acute precision demand incredibly high-performance computing power. Although DCNN-based detectors are capable of accurate classification, the sheer computing power needed for this form of classification makes it very difficult to run with lower computational power in remote environments. Moreover, classical DCNN architectures have a fixed number of input dimensions, which forces preprocessing, thus making it impractical for real-world applications. In this research, a practical DCNN with an optimized architecture is proposed with DCNN filter/node pruning, and spatial pyramid pooling (SPP) is introduced in order to make the model input dimension-invariant. This compact SPP-DCNN module uses 65% fewer parameters than traditional classifiers and operates almost 3× faster than classical models. Moreover, the new improved proposed algorithm, which decodes gestures or sign language finger-spelling from videos, gave a benchmark highest accuracy with the fastest processing speed. This proposed method paves the way for various practical and applied hand gesture input-based human-computer interaction (HCI) applications.

scholarly journals Text analysis of DNS queries for data exfiltration protection of computer networks

Informatics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 78-86
Author(s):  
Ya. V. Bubnov ◽  
N. N. Ivanov
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Computer Networks ◽  
Computer Network ◽  
Domain Name System ◽  
Domain Name ◽  
Domain Names ◽  
Network Protection ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Trained Neural Network

The paper proposes effective method of computer network protection from data exfiltration by the system of domain names. Data exfiltration by Domain Name System (DNS) is an approach to conceal the transfer of confidential data to remote adversary using data encapsulation into the requesting domain name. The DNS requests that transfer stolen information from a host infected by malicious software to an external host controlled by a malefactor are considered. The paper proposes a method of detecting such DNS requests based on text classification of domain names by convolutional neural network. The efficiency of the method is based on assumption that domain names exploited for data exfiltration differ from domain names formed from words of natural language. To classify the requests in convolutional neural network the use of character embedding for representing the string of a domain name is proposed. Quality evaluation of the trained neural network used for recognition of data exfiltration through domain name system using ROC-analysis is performed.The paper presents the software architecture used for deployment of trained neural network into existing infrastructure of the domain name system targeting practical computer networks protection from data exfiltration. The architecture implies creation of response policy zones for blocking of individual requests, classified as malicious.

scholarly journals LSTM Network based Malicious Domain Name Detection

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 3187-3191
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Network Traffic ◽  
Deep Neural Network ◽  
Domain Name ◽  
Domain Names ◽  
Bidirectional Lstm ◽  
Lstm Network

Detecting malicious domain names attract lot of research in recent years. Researchers tried various text based, network traffic based and combination of these methods to detect malicious names. In this paper, we analyze the possibility of detection malicious names using deep neural network based models. Bidirectional LSTM network has been developed and trained on the dataset. Two tasks were experimented. First task was to identify malicious domain name and second task was to identify the class of domain name. Proposed method is able to perform well on task 1 producing 98.9% accuracy whereas on task 2 it is able to achieve accuracy of 69.7% only.

scholarly journals Grasp Detection Based on Light-Weight Hierarchical Fusion Convolutional Neural Network

2021 ◽  
Vol 2083 (4) ◽  
pp. 042030
Author(s):  
Ziang Xu
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Feature Fusion ◽  
Light Weight ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
Spatial Pyramid Pooling ◽  
Feature Information ◽  
Unknown Objects ◽  
Spatial Pyramid

Abstract This paper presents a light-weight Hierarchical Fusion Convolutional Neural Network (HF-CNN) which can be used for grasping detection. The network mainly employs residual structures, atrous spatial pyramid pooling (ASPP) and coding-decoding based feature fusion. Compared with the usual grasping detection, the network in this paper greatly improves the robustness and generalizability on detecting tasks by extensively extracting feature information of the images. In our test with the Cornell University dataset, we achieve 85% accuracy when detecting the unknown objects.

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