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AdIoTack: Quantifying and Refining Resilience of Decision Tree Ensemble Inference Models against Adversarial Volumetric Attacks on IoT Networks
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Abstract
Machine Learning-based techniques have shown success in cyber intelligence.
However, they are increasingly becoming targets of sophisticated data-driven
adversarial attacks resulting in misprediction, eroding their ability to detect
threats on network devices. In this paper, we present AdIoTack, a system that
highlights vulnerabilities of decision trees against adversarial attacks,
helping cybersecurity teams quantify and refine the resilience of their trained
models for monitoring IoT networks. To assess the model for the worst-case
scenario, AdIoTack performs white-box adversarial learning to launch successful
volumetric attacks that decision tree ensemble models cannot flag. Our first
contribution is to develop a white-box algorithm that takes a trained decision
tree ensemble model and the profile of an intended network-based attack on a
victim class as inputs. It then automatically generates recipes that specify
certain packets on top of the indented attack packets (less than 15% overhead)
that together can bypass the inference model unnoticed. We ensure that the
generated attack instances are feasible for launching on IP networks and
effective in their volumetric impact. Our second contribution develops a method
to monitor the network behavior of connected devices actively, inject
adversarial traffic (when feasible) on behalf of a victim IoT device, and
successfully launch the intended attack. Our third contribution prototypes
AdIoTack and validates its efficacy on a testbed consisting of a handful of
real IoT devices monitored by a trained inference model. We demonstrate how the
model detects all non-adversarial volumetric attacks on IoT devices while
missing many adversarial ones. The fourth contribution develops systematic
methods for applying patches to trained decision tree ensemble models,
improving their resilience against adversarial volumetric attacks.