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Black-box Attacks to Log-based Anomaly Detection

  • Beihang University
  • Concordia University

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Abstract

Anomaly detection is the key to Quality of Service (QoS) in many modern systems. Logs, which record the runtime information of system, are widely used for anomaly detection. The security of the log-based anomaly detection has not been well investigated. In this paper, we conduct an empirical study on black-box attacks on log-based anomaly detection. We investigate eight different methods on log attacking and compare their performance on various log parsing methods and log anomaly detection models. We propose a method to evaluate the imperceptibility of log attacking methods. In our experiments, we evaluate the performance on the attack methods on two real log datasets. The results of our experiments show that LogBug outperforms the others in almost all situations. We also compare the imperceptibility of various attack methods and find a trade-off between performance and imperceptibility, where better attack performance means worse imperceptibility. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to investigate and compare the attack models on log-based anomaly detection.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2022 18th International Conference of Network and Service Management
Subtitle of host publicationIntelligent Management of Disruptive Network Technologies and Services, CNSM 2022
EditorsMarinos Charalambides, Panagiotis Papadimitriou, Walter Cerroni, Salil Kanhere, Lefteris Mamatas
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages310-316
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9783903176515
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event18th International Conference of Network and Service Management, CNSM 2022 - Thessaloniki, Greece
Duration: 31 Oct 2022 → 4 Nov 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2022 18th International Conference of Network and Service Management: Intelligent Management of Disruptive Network Technologies and Services, CNSM 2022

Conference

Conference18th International Conference of Network and Service Management, CNSM 2022
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityThessaloniki
Period31/10/22 → 4/11/22

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