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Unsupervised Intrusion Detection
Using Clustering
Approach
Muhammet Kabukçu
Sefa Kılıç
Ferhat Kutlu
Teoman Toraman
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Outline
 Introduction
 Using Clustering for Intrusion Detection
 Methodology
 Overall Summary
 Conclusion
 References
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Introduction
• Intrusion detection is the process of monitoring the events
occurring in a computer system or network and analyzing
them for signs of possible incidents.
• Incidents are violations or
imminent threats of violation of:
* computer security policies,
* acceptable use policies,
* standard security practices.
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Introduction
• An intrusion detection
system (IDS) is software
that automates the
intrusion detection
process.
• IDSs are primarily focuses on identifying possible
incidents and detecting when an attacker has
successfully compromised a system by exploiting
vulnerability in the system.
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Introduction
Methodologies
of IDS
Technologies
SignatureBased
Detection
AnomalyBased
Detection
Stateful
Protocol
Analysis
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Signature-Based Detection
 A signature is a pattern that corresponds to a known
threat (e.g. a telnet attempt with a username of "root",
which is a violation of an organization's security policy).
 Signature-based detection is the process of comparing
signatures against observed events to identify possible
incidents.
Advantage: Very effective at detecting known threats.
Disadvantage: Ineffective at detecting previously
unknown threats.
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Anomaly-Based Detection
 The process of comparing definitions of what activity is
considered normal against observed events to identify
significant deviations.
 Capable of detecting previously unknown threats.
 Uses host or network-specific profiles.
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Detection by Stateful Protocol Analysis
 The process of comparing predetermined profiles of
generally accepted definitions of benign protocol activity
for each protocol state against observed events to
identify deviations.
 Relies on vendor-developed universal profiles that
specify how particular protocols should and should not
be used.
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Using Clustering for Intrusion Detection
 Methods other than Signature-Based Detection use data
mining and machine learning algorithms to train on
labeled network data.
 For training data, there are two major paradigms:
Misuse Detection
Anomaly Detection.
Which one to use ???
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Using Clustering for Intrusion Detection
- Misuse Detection  In misuse detection, machine learning algorithms
are used with labeled data.
 By using the extracted features from labeled
network traffic, network data is classified.
 By using new data which includes new type of
attacks, detection models are retrained.
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Using Clustering for Intrusion Detection
- Anomaly Detection  In anomaly detection,
models are built by training on normal data,
deviations are searched over the normal model.
 Generating purely normal data is
very difficult and costly in practice.
 It is very hard to guarantee that
there are no attacks during the time
the traffic is collected from the
network.
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Using Clustering for Intrusion Detection
Misuse Detection
Anomaly Detection.
 Use a mechanism to detect
intrusions by using unlabeled
data as a train model.
 Find intrusions buried within that
data.
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Using Clustering for Intrusion Detection
A Set of
Unlabeled
Data
Unsupervised
Anomaly
Detection
Algorithm
Assumptions for unsupervised anomaly detection algorithm:
1. The intrusions are rare with respect to normal network
traffic.
2.
Detected Intrusion
Clusters
Connection
Comparison
with Detected
Clusters
The intrusions are different from normal network traffic.
As a Result:
The intrusions will appear as outliers in the data.
Detected
malicious
attacks
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Using Clustering for Intrusion Detection
 The unsupervised anomaly
detection algorithm clusters
the unlabeled data instances
together into clusters using a
simple distance-based metric.
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Using Clustering for Intrusion Detection
Once data is clustered, all of the
instances that appear in
small clusters are labeled as
Intrusion cluster
anomalies because;
 The normal instances should
form large clusters compared to
the intrusions,
 Malicious intrusions and normal
instances are qualitatively
different, so they do not fall into
the same cluster.
Normal cluster
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Methodology
1. Description of the dataset
2. Metric & Normalization
3. Clustering Algorithm
a) Portnoy et. al.
b) Y-means Algorithm
4. Labeling Clusters
5. Intrusion Detection
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Description of the dataset
• KDD Cup 1999 Data
• Main attack categories
– DOS: Denial of Service, (e.g. synood)
– R2L: Unauthorized access from a remote machine
(e.g. guessing password)
– U2R: Unauthorized access to local superuser
(root) privileges (e.g. various buffer overflow
attacks)
– Probing: Surveillance and other probing (e.g. port
scanning)
• In total, 24 attack types in training data; 14
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additional ones in test data...
Metric & Normalization
• Euclidean Metric
(for distance computation)
• Feature Normalization
(to eliminate the difference in the scale of features)
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Clustering Algorithm (Portnoy et. al.)
.
d1
Xi
Training set
.
.
d2
d3
Empty set of clusters
- d1 is selected.
- if d1 < W ( predefined threshold value ),
then Xi is assigned to that cluster.
- else, a new cluster is created, then Xi is assigned to it.
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Clustering Algorithm (Portnoy et. al.)
• Advantage: No need to know the initial no. of
clusters.
• Disadvantage: Need to know W, which may label
instances wrong in some cases.
• However…
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Clustering Algorithm (Y-means Algorithm)
• 3 main parts:
1. assigning instances to k clusters
2. splitting clusters
3. merging clusters
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Clustering Algorithm (Y-means Algorithm)
1. assigning instances to k clusters
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redefine
cluster
centroid
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k: no. of clusters
n: no. of instances
1<k<n
Dataset
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Clustering Algorithm (Y-means Algorithm)
2. splitting clusters
t ( normal threshold) = 2.32 σ
σ = standard deviation
di
.
Xi ( instance )
.
t
Confident area
• if di > t , Xi is an outlier.
• New clusters are created firstly
with the farthest outliers.
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Clustering Algorithm (Y-means Algorithm)
3. merging clusters
.
Xi
If Xi is in the confident area of two clusters, merge these
clusters back.
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Labeling Clusters
• Our first assumption:
# of normal instances >> # of intrusions
• Label instances in large clusters: normal
• Label instances in small clusters: intrusion
• Start labeling as normal, until 99% of data is labeled
as normal, label rest of them as intrusion.
Normal cluster
Intrusion cluster
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Intrusion Detection
For test instance x,
 Measure the distance to each cluster.
 Select the nearest cluster C.
 If C is normal cluster, label x as normal,
 Otherwise label x as intrusion.
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Overall Summary
• IDS & IDS Technologies
• Using Clustering for Intrusion Detection
• Methodology
1. Description of the dataset
2. Metric & Normalization
3. Clustering Algorithm
4. Labeling Clusters
5. Intrusion Detection
Conclusion
• Unsupervised Clustering is choosen.
• KDD Cup 1999 Data
• Y-means Algorithm is used for creating ID System.
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References
[1] KDD Cup 1999 data.
http://kdd.ics.uci.edu/databases/kddcup99/kddcup99.html.
[2] Y. Guan and A. A. Ghorbani. Y-means: A clustering method for
intrusion detection. In Proceedings of Canadian Conference
on Electrical and Computer Engineering, pages 1083{1086,
2003.
[3] L. Portnoy, E. Eskin, and S. Stolfo. Intrusion detection with
unlabeled data using clustering. In Proceedings of ACM CSS
Workshop on Data Mining Applied to Security (DMSA-2001),
2001.
[4] K. Scarfone and P. Mell. Guide to intrusion detection and
prevention systems (idps), 2007.
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Questions?
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