A Deep Learning Method to Detect Web Attacks Using a Specially Designed CNN

摘要

With the increasing information sharing and other activities conducted on the World Wide Web, the Web has become the main venue for attackers to make troubles. The effective methods to detect Web attacks are critical and significant to guarantee the Web security. In recent years, many machine learning methods have been applied to detect Web attacks. We present a deep learning method to detect Web attacks by using a specially designed CNN. The method is based on analyzing the HTTP request packets, to which only some preprocessing is needed whereas the tedious feature extraction is done by the CNN itself. The experimental results on dataset HTTP DATASET CSIC 2010 show that the designed CNN has a good performance and the method achieves satisfactory results in detecting Web attacks, having a high detection rate while keeping a low false alarm rate.