Title
Mouse features for DDoS attacks detection in the application layer
Date Issued
09 October 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Publisher(s)
Association for Computing Machinery
Abstract
DDoS attacks are a threat to the security of the network. In recent years these attacks have been directed especially against the application layer. This phenomenon is mainly due to the large number of existing tools available for the easy generation of this type of attack. The methods used in the application layer reach detection rates of between 98.5 and 98.32%. Therefore, the problem of detecting DDoS attacks persists. In this work we propose a detection alternative based on the dynamism of the web user. To do this, two mouse characteristics are evaluated: movement and right click. A dataset of 11055 applications was also used, from which the two characteristics were extracted and entered into a classification algorithm. To this end, a Java application was developed for the classification of real users and those behind DDoS attacks. The results show that the proposed characteristics achieve an efficiency of 100%. It is concluded that these characteristics reveal the dynamism of the user and can be used as a method of detection of DDoS attacks.
Start page
177
End page
181
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Hardware, Arquitectura de computadoras Ciencias de la computación
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85045630927
ISBN of the container
9781450353373
Conference
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series: 9th International Conference on Information Management and Engineering, ICIME 2017
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