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Re: Encrypted Malware Traffic Detection == hilarious?


From: Jim Bieda <jhbieda () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 13:41:54 -0700

Here's the blog entry from Blake Anderson (one of the authors of the paper).

https://blogs.cisco.com/security/detecting-encrypted-malware
-traffic-without-decryption?CAMPAIGN=Security&Country_Site=
us&POSITION=Social+Media&REFERRING_SITE=Facebook&CREATIVE=Cisco%20Security

There is an open source version of this tooling that extracts of the TLS
features from pcap flows and generates 'enhanced' netflow (pcap2flow) used
by the model.  The package, called "Joy" is located on GitHub (
https://github.com/cisco/joy)  and includes an earlier version of the
trained model to spot potential malware-originated TLS flows.

Cheers,
Jim





On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Thorsten Holz <thorsten.holz () gmail com>
wrote:

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 4:25 PM, dave aitel <dave () immunityinc com> wrote:

99% effective with the kind of traffic a normal network sees means you
are FLOODED AND OVERWHELMED WITH FALSE POSITIVES. Although they don't
specify what that number even means. Is it false positives? False
negatives? Both? Let's just say this: 99.99% is useless when doing a
network-based IDS.


More details are available in a technical report:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.01639.pdf

Starting on page 8, the evaluation is explained in more detail. 99%
reflects the accuracy, but the 1-in-10,000 false discovery rate (FDR) is
much lower even in their tests. Furthermore, all these results were
obtained in synthetic tests where the ratio of malicious traffic to benign
traffic was almost 1:1 ("In total, there were 225,740 malicious and 225,000
enterprise flows for this experiment")...

Cheers,
  Thorsten

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