Tag Network intrusion detection

Network Intrusion Detection

In this case study we need to predict anomalies and attacks in the network.

Business Problem:

The task is to build network intrusion detection system to detect anomalies and attacks in the network.

There are two problems.

  1. Binomial Classification: Activity is normal or attack.
  2. Multinomial classification: Activity is normal or DOS or PROBE or R2L or U2R .

Data Availability:

This data is KDDCUP’99 data set, which is widely used as one of the few publicly available data sets for network-based anomaly detection systems.

For more about data you can visit to http://www.unb.ca/cic/datasets/nsl.html

BASIC FEATURES OF EACH NETWORK CONNECTION VECTOR

  1. Duration: Length of time duration of the connection
  2.  Protocol_type: Protocol used in the connection
  3.  Service: Destination network service used
  4.  Flag: Status of the connection – Normal or Error
  5.  Src_bytes: Number of data bytes transferred from source to destination in single connection
  6.  Dst_bytes: Number of data bytes transferred from destination to source in single connection
  7.  Land: if source and destination IP addresses and port numbers are equal then, this variable takes value 1 else 0
  8.  Wrong_fragment: Total number of wrong fragments in this connection
  9.  Urgent: Number of urgent packets in this connection. Urgent packets are packets with the urgent bit activated.
  10. Hot: Number of „hot‟ indicators in the content such as: entering a system directory, creating programs and executing programs.
  11. Num_failed _logins: Count of failed login attempts.
  12. Logged_in Login Status: 1 if successfully logged in; 0 otherwise.
  13. Num_compromised: Number of “compromised’ ‘ conditions.
  14. Root_shell: 1 if root shell is obtained; 0 otherwise.
  15.  Su_attempted: 1 if “su root” command attempted or used; 0 otherwise.
  16.  Num_root: Number of “root” accesses or number of operations performed as a root in the connection.
  17. Num_file_creations: Number of file creation operations in the connection.
  18. Num_shells: Number of shell prompts.
  19. Num_access_files: Number of operations on access control files .
  20. Num_outbound_cmds: Number of outbound commands in an ftp session.
  21. Is_hot_login: 1 if the login belongs to the “hot” list i.e., root or admin; else 0.
  22. Is_guest_login: 1 if the login is a “guest” login; 0 otherwise .
  23. Count: Number of connections to the same destination host as the current connection in the past two seconds
  24. Srv_count: Number of connections to the same service (port number) as the current connection in the past two seconds.
  25. Serror_rate: The percentage of connections that have activated the flag (4) s0, s1, s2 or s3, among the connections aggregated in count (23 )
  26. Srv_serror_rate: The percentage of connections that have activated the flag (4) s0, s1, s2 or s3, among the connections aggregated in srv_count (24)
  27. Rerror_rate: The percentage of connections that have activated the flag (4) REJ, among the connections aggregated in count (23)
  28. Srv_rerror_rate: The percentage of connections that have activated the flag (4) REJ, among the connections aggregated in srv_count (24)
  29. Same_srv_rate: The percentage of connections that were to the same service, among the connections aggregated in count (23)
  30. Diff_srv_rate: The percentage of connections that were to different services, among the connections aggregated in count (23)
  31. Srv_diff_host_ rate: The percentage of connections that were to different destination machines among the connections aggregated in srv_count (24)
  32. Dst_host_count: Number of connections having the same destination host IP address.
  33. Dst_host_srv_ count: Number of connections having the same port number.
  34. Dst_host_same _srv_rate: The percentage of connections that were to the same service, among the connections aggregated in dst_host_count (32) .
  35. Dst_host_diff_ srv_rate: The percentage of connections that were to different services, among the connections aggregated in dst_host_count (32)
  36. Dst_host_same _src_port_rate: The percentage of connections that were to the same source port, among the connections aggregated in dst_host_srv_c ount (33) .
  37. Dst_host_srv_ diff_host_rate: The percentage of connections that were to different destination machines, among the connections aggregated in dst_host_srv_count (33).
  38. Dst_host_serro r_rate: The percentage of connections that have activated the flag (4) s0, s1, s2 or s3, among the connections aggregated in dst_host_count (32).
  39. Dst_host_srv_s error_rate: The percent of connections that have activated the flag (4) s0, s1, s2 or s3, among the connections aggregated in dst_host_srv_c ount (33).
  40. Dst_host_rerro r_rate: The percentage of connections that have activated the flag (4) REJ, among the connections aggregated in dst_host_count (32) .
  41. Dst_host_srv_r error_rate: The percentage of connections that have activated the flag (4) REJ, among the connections aggregated in dst_host_srv_c ount (33).

Attack Class:

Let’s develop a machine learning model for further analysis.