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A Probabilistic Network Forensic Model for Evidence Analysis

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Modern-day attackers use sophisticated multi-stage and/or multi-host attack techniques and anti-forensic tools to cover their attack traces. Due to the limitations of current intrusion detection systems and forensic analysis tools, evidence often has false positive errors or is incomplete. Additionally, because of the large number of security events, discovering an attack pattern is much like finding a needle in a haystack. Consequently, reconstructing attack scenarios and holding attackers accountable for their activities are major challenges.This chapter describes a probabilistic model that applies Bayesian networks to construct evidence graphs. The model helps address the problems posed by false positive errors, analyze the reasons for missing evidence and compute the posterior probabilities and false positive rates of attack scenarios constructed using the available evidence. A companion software tool for network forensic analysis was used in conjunction with the probabilistic model. The tool, which is written in Prolog, leverages vulnerability databases and an anti-forensic database similar to the NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD). The experimental results demonstrate that the model is useful for constructing the most-likely attack scenarios and for managing errors encountered in network forensic analysis.
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hal-01758685 , version 1 (04-04-2018)

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Changwei Liu, Anoop Singhal, Duminda Wijesekera. A Probabilistic Network Forensic Model for Evidence Analysis. 12th IFIP International Conference on Digital Forensics (DF), Jan 2016, New Delhi, India. pp.189-210, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-46279-0_10⟩. ⟨hal-01758685⟩
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