SynGAN: Towards Generating Synthetic Network Attacks using GANs

Authors: Jeremy Charlier, Aman Singh, Gaston Ormazabal, Radu State, Henning Schulzrinne
Published: 2019-08-26

Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.09899

PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.09899

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DDoS攻撃 フレームワーク サイバーセキュリティ

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Abstract

The rapid digital transformation without security considerations has resulted in the rise of global-scale cyberattacks. The first line of defense against these attacks are Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS). Once deployed, however, these systems work as blackboxes with a high rate of false positives with no measurable effectiveness. There is a need to continuously test and improve these systems by emulating real-world network attack mutations. We present SynGAN, a framework that generates adversarial network attacks using the Generative Adversial Networks (GAN). SynGAN generates malicious packet flow mutations using real attack traffic, which can improve NIDS attack detection rates. As a first step, we compare two public datasets, NSL-KDD and CICIDS2017, for generating synthetic Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) network attacks. We evaluate the attack quality (real vs. synthetic) using a gradient boosting classifier.