Research Article

Detecting Cyber-Attacks on Wireless Mobile Networks Using Multicriterion Fuzzy Classifier with Genetic Attribute Selection

Table 2

Summary of various attributes: category, notation, name, type (numeric, categorical, and binary), statistics, and description.

Cat. Not. Name Type Statistics Description
Min Max

Basic
Duration Num. 058329 Connection length in seconds
pro_type Cat. Prototype type which can be tcp, udp, or icmp
srv Cat. Service on the destination; there are 67 potential values such as http, ftp, telnet, and domain
Flag Cat. Normal or error status of the connection; there are 11 potential values, for example, rej, sh
src_bytes Num. 0693 M Num. of bytes from the source to the destination
dst_bytes Num. 052 M Num. of bytes from the destination to the source
Land Binary Whether conn. from/to same host/port or not
wrng_frg Num. 03 Number of wrong fragments
urg Num. 03 Number of urgent packets

Content
Hot Num.030 Number of hot indicators
n_failed_lgns Num.05 Number of failed login attempts
logged_in BinaryWhether successfully logged in or not
n_cmprmsd Num.0884Number of compromised conditions
rt_shell BinaryWhether root shell is obtained or not
su_attmptd Num.02 Number of “su root” commands attempted
n_rt Num.0993Number of accesses to the root
n_file_crte Num.028Number of create-file operations
n_shells Num.02Number of shell prompts
n_access_files Num.08Number of operations on access control files
n_obnd_cmds Num.00Number of outbound commands in an ftp session
is_hot_lgn BinaryWhether login belongs to hot list or not
is_guest_lgn BinaryWhether login is guest or not

t_traffic (using a window of 2 seconds)
cnt Num. 0511Number of same-host connections as the current connection in the past 2 seconds
srv_cnt Num.0511Num. of same-host conn. to the same service as the current connection in the past 2 seconds
syn_err Num.01Percentage of same-host conn. with syn errors
srv_syn_err Num. 0 1 Percentage of same-service conn. with syn errors
rej_err Num. 01Percentage of same-host conn. with rej errors
srv_rej_err Num.01Percentage of same-service conn. with rej errors
sm_srv_r Num.01Percentage of same-host conn. to same service
dff_srv_r Num.01Percentage of same-host conn. to different services
srv_dff_hst_r Num.01Percentage of same-service conn. to different hosts

h_traffic (using a window of 100 connections)
h_cnt Num.0255Number of same-host connections as the current connection in the past 100 connections
h_srv_cnt Num.0255Num. of same-host conn. to the same service as the current connection in the past 100 connections
h_sm_srv_r Num.01 Percentage of same-host conn. to same service
h_dff_srv_r Num.01Percentage of same-host conn. to different services
h_sm_sr_prt_r Num.01Percentage of same-service conn. to different hosts
h_srv_dff_hst_r Num.01Percentage of same-service conn. to different hosts
h_syn_err Num.01Percentage of same-host conn. with syn errors
h_srv_syn_err Num.01Percentage of same-service conn. with syn errors
h_rej_err Num.01Percentage of same-host conn. with rej errors
h_srv_rej_err Num.01Percentage of same-service conn. with rej errors