Machine learning based detection and evasion techniques for advanced web bots

Abstract

Web bots are programs that can be used to browse the web and perform different types of automated actions, both benign and malicious. Such web bots vary in sophistication based on their purpose, ranging from simple automated scripts to advanced web bots that have a browser fingerprint and exhibit a humanlike behaviour. Advanced web bots are especially appealing to malicious web bot creators, due to their browserlike fingerprint and humanlike behaviour which reduce their detectability. Several effective behaviour-based web bot detection techniques have been proposed in literature. However, the performance of these detection techniques when targeting malicious web bots that try to evade detection has not been examined in depth. Such evasive web bot behaviour is achieved by different techniques, including simple heuristics and statistical distributions, or more advanced machine learning based techniques. Motivated by the above, in this thesis we research novel web bot detection techniques ...
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DOI
10.12681/eadd/58524
Handle URL
http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/58524
ND
58524
Alternative title
Τεχνικές μηχανικής μάθησης για τον εντοπισμό και την αποφυγή εντοπισμού διαδικτυακών ρομπότ
Author
Iliou, Christos (Father's name: Kyriakos)
Date
2022
Degree Grantor
Bournemouth University. Faculty of Science and Technology. Department of Computing and Informatics
Committee members
Burnap Pete
Malhi Avleen
Katos Vasilis
Kostoulas Theodoros
Discipline
Engineering and TechnologyElectrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering ➨ Computer science, Hardware and Architecture
Keywords
Web bots; Web bot detection; Evasive web bots; Advanced web bots; Mouse movements; Mouse biometrics; Humanlike behaviour; Machine learning; Convolutional neural networks (CNNs); Generative adversarial networks; Reinforcement learning
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Description
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