Improving Long-term Accuracy of DNS Backscatter for Monitoring of Internet-Wide Malicious Activity (poster). Qadeer, A., Heidemann, J., & Fukuda, K. Technical Report ISI-TR-2016-707, USC/Information Sciences Institute, April, 2016.
Improving Long-term Accuracy of DNS Backscatter for Monitoring of Internet-Wide Malicious Activity (poster) [link]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
Internet-wide malicious activities are prevalent on the Internet. Such activities include the malicious, like spamming and scanning, and the benign, like large e-mailing lists and content delivery networks. We've previously shown that they can be detected centrally with DNS backscatter, and developed a classifier using supervised learning. However, long-term detection is difficult because activities rapidly change with time to evade detection or as they naturally evolve, and manual training is expensive. Our solution: we extend backscatter-based detection by identifying: how behavior evolves, how often we need to retrain, and how to retrain without human supervision. Details are in the attached poster.
@TechReport{Qadeer16a,
	author = 	"Abdul Qadeer and John Heidemann and Kensuke Fukuda",
	title = 	"Improving Long-term Accuracy of DNS
                  Backscatter for Monitoring of Internet-Wide Malicious Activity (poster)",
	institution = 	"USC/Information Sciences Institute",
	year = 		2016,
	sortdate = 		"2016-04-29", 
	project = "ant, lacrend, retrofuture",
	jsubject = "dns",
	number =	"ISI-TR-2016-707",
	month =		apr,
	jlocation =	"johnh: pafile",
	keywords =	"network outage detection, hurricane sandy",
	url =		"https://ant.isi.edu/%7ejohnh/PAPERS/Qadeer16a.html",
	pdfurl =	"https://ant.isi.edu/%7ejohnh/PAPERS/Qadeer16a.pdf",
	dataseturl = "https://ant.isi.edu/datasets/dns_backscatter/index.html",
	myorganization =	"USC/Information Sciences Institute",
	copyrightholder = "authors",
	abstract = "
Internet-wide malicious activities are prevalent on the Internet.  Such activities 
include the malicious, like spamming and scanning,
and the 
benign, like large e-mailing lists and content delivery networks.
We've previously shown that they can be detected centrally with 
DNS backscatter, and developed a classifier using supervised learning.
However, long-term detection is difficult because activities rapidly 
change with time to evade detection or as they naturally evolve, and 
manual training is expensive. 
Our solution: we extend backscatter-based detection by identifying: 
how behavior evolves, 
how often we need to retrain, 
and how to retrain without human supervision. 
Details are in the attached poster.
",
}

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