Research Article

Abnormal Behavior Detection to Identify Infected Systems Using the APChain Algorithm and Behavioral Profiling

Table 16

Experimental results for C&C channel detection according to the threshold value.

CategoryAccuracyPrecisionRecallFP rate

Threshold A (0, 240)
x ≥ 240, x=frequency
0.01560.00061.00.9850

Threshold B (30, 240)
x ≥ 240
0.99980.85711.00.0001

Threshold C (30, 720)
x ≥ 720
0.98560.04281.00.0143

Threshold D (90, 720)
x ≥ 720
0.98540.02890.66670.0143

Threshold E (0, ∞)
x ≥ ∞
0.00060.00061.01.0