A review on lexical based malicious domain name detection methods

C Hamroun, A Amamou, K Haddadou… - Annals of …, 2024 - Springer
Nowadays, domain names are becoming crucial digital assets for any business. However,
the media never stopped reporting phishing and identity theft attacks held by third-party …

Leveraging n-gram neural embeddings to improve deep learning DGA detection

C Morbidoni, L Spalazzi, A Teti… - Proceedings of the 37th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Several families of malware are based on the need to establish a connection with a
Command and Control (C&C) server. In addition, to avoid detection, these servers" hide" …

Use of subword tokenization for domain generation algorithm classification

SRC Liew, NF Law - Cybersecurity, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Domain name generation algorithm (DGA) classification is an essential but
challenging problem. Both feature-extracting machine learning (ML) methods and deep …

Neural networks based domain name generation

Z Wang, Y Guo - Journal of Information Security and Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Domain generation algorithm (DGA) is used by botnets to build a stealthy command
and control (C&C) communication channel between the C&C server and the bots. A DGA …

A word-level analytical approach for identifying malicious domain names caused by dictionary-based DGA malware

A Satoh, Y Fukuda, G Kitagata, Y Nakamura - Electronics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Computer networks are facing serious threats from the emergence of malware with
sophisticated DGAs (Domain Generation Algorithms). This type of DGA malware …

Use of supervised machine learning to detect abuse of COVID-19 related domain names

Z Wang - Computers and Electrical Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
A comprehensive evaluation of supervised machine learning models for COVID-19 related
domain name detection is presented. One representative conventional machine learning …

Detection for domain generation algorithm (DGA) domain botnet based on neural network with multi-head self-attention mechanisms

S Sarojini, S Asha - … Journal of System Assurance Engineering and …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Domain Generation Algorithm (DGA) serve as variety detection of domain utilized
with malicious into develop random domain as a specific algorithm that accept assignation …

Effective DGA-Domain detection and classification with TextCNN and additional features

C Hwang, H Kim, H Lee, T Lee - Electronics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Malicious codes, such as advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks, do not operate
immediately after infecting the system, but after receiving commands from the attacker's …

DGA botnet detection method based on capsule network and k-means routing

X Liu, J Liu - Neural Computing and Applications, 2022 - Springer
For the current mainstream DGA domain name detection methods, scalars are almost used
to represent numerical features, resulting in the loss of the spatial feature information of …

AdamW+: Machine Learning Framework to Detect Domain Generation Algorithms for Malware

A Javed, I Rashid, S Tahir, S Saeed… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Advanced Persistent Threats commonly use Domain Generation Algorithms to evade
advanced detection methods to establish communication with their command and control …