Unveiling malicious DNS behavior profiling and generating benchmark dataset through application layer traffic analysis
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a prime target for cyber attacks , necessitating the monitoring and analysis of DNS activities to detect malicious behaviors . This paper presents an innovative DNS behavioral profiling approach that addresses challenges posed by the dynamic landscape of cyber threats, encompassing issues like evasion tactics, content variability, discerning malicious intent , navigating URL obfuscation, low and slow tactics, and maintaining accuracy in the face of diverse normal behaviors, contributing to the advancement of robust threat detection. The framework leverages unique feature behaviors and correlations, incorporating a novel feature selection algorithm , pattern extraction methodology, and a robust neural network architecture for accurate profile construction. The research also includes the development of ALFlowLyzer, a custom application layer network flow analyzer, and introduces the BCCC-CIC-Bell-DNS-2024 dataset, addressing limitations in widely used public DNS datasets. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model in profiling various DNS activities.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it