A Heterogeneous Graph Learning Model for Cyber-Attack Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2112.08986v1
• Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 16:03:39 GMT
• Title: A Heterogeneous Graph Learning Model for Cyber-Attack Detection
• Authors: Mingqi Lv, Chengyu Dong, Tieming Chen, Tiantian Zhu, Qijie Song, Yuan Fan
• Abstract summary: A cyber-attack is a malicious attempt by hackers to breach the target information system. This paper proposes an intelligent cyber-attack detection method based on provenance data. Experiment results show that the proposed method outperforms other learning based detection models.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: A cyber-attack is a malicious attempt by experienced hackers to breach the target information system. Usually, the cyber-attacks are characterized as hybrid TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures) and long-term adversarial behaviors, making the traditional intrusion detection methods ineffective. Most existing cyber-attack detection systems are implemented based on manually designed rules by referring to domain knowledge (e.g., threat models, threat intelligences). However, this process is lack of intelligence and generalization ability. Aiming at this limitation, this paper proposes an intelligent cyber-attack detection method based on provenance data. To effective and efficient detect cyber-attacks from a huge number of system events in the provenance data, we firstly model the provenance data by a heterogeneous graph to capture the rich context information of each system entities (e.g., process, file, socket, etc.), and learns a semantic vector representation for each system entity. Then, we perform online cyber-attack detection by sampling a small and compact local graph from the heterogeneous graph, and classifying the key system entities as malicious or benign. We conducted a series of experiments on two provenance datasets with real cyber-attacks. The experiment results show that the proposed method outperforms other learning based detection models, and has competitive performance against state-of-the-art rule based cyber-attack detection systems.

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