Monitoring SIP Traffic Using Support Vector Machines

  • Authors:
  • Mohamed Nassar;Radu State;Olivier Festor

  • Affiliations:
  • Centre de Recherche INRIA Nancy - Grand Est, Villers-Lès-Nancy, France 54602;Centre de Recherche INRIA Nancy - Grand Est, Villers-Lès-Nancy, France 54602;Centre de Recherche INRIA Nancy - Grand Est, Villers-Lès-Nancy, France 54602

  • Venue:
  • RAID '08 Proceedings of the 11th international symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We propose a novel online monitoring approach to distinguish between attacks and normal activity in SIP-based Voice over IP environments. We demonstrate the efficiency of the approach even when only limited data sets are used in learning phase. The solution builds on the monitoring of a set of 38 features in VoIP flows and uses Support Vector Machines for classification. We validate our proposal through large offline experiments performed over a mix of real world traces from a large VoIP provider and attacks locally generated on our own testbed. Results show high accuracy of detecting SPIT and flooding attacks and promising performance for an online deployment are measured.