A Targeted Adversarial Attack Method for Multi-Classification Malicious Traffic Detection

Peishuai Sun, Chengxiang Si, Shuhao Li, Zhenyu Cheng, Shuyuan Zhao, Qingyun Liu

Abstract: Leveraging deep learning to detect malicious network traffic is a crucial technology in network management and network security. However, deep learning security has raised concerns among scholars. In this work, we explore executing targeted adversarial attacks for multi-classification malicious traffic detection with limited interactions. Specifically, we constrain the number of interactions with detection and employ a hop-skip-jump attack (HSJA) to generate a small number of adversarial samples. These adversarial samples are then heuristically used to train a generative adversarial network (GAN) to generate a substantial quantity of adversarial samples. Experiments demonstrate that our method is more adversarial and displays a certain degree of generalization compared with other methods.