The exploitation of internet networks through denial of services (DoS) attacks has experienced a continuous surge over the past few years. Despite the development of advanced intrusion detection and protection systems, network security remains a challenging problem and necessitates the development of efficient and effective defense mechanisms to detect these threats. This research proposes a machine learning-based framework to detect distributed DOS (DDoS)/DoS attacks. For this purpose, a large dataset containing the network traffic of the application layer is utilized. A novel multi-feature approach is proposed where the principal component analysis (PCA) features and singular value decomposition (SVD) features are combined to obtain higher performance. The validation of the multi-feature approach is determined by extensive experiments using several machine learning models. The performance of machine learning models is evaluated for each class of attack and results are discussed regarding the accuracy, recall, and F1 score, etc., in the context of recent state-of-the-art approaches. Experimental results confirm that using multi-feature increases the performance and RF obtains a 100% accuracy.