An unknown Trojan detection method based on software network behavior

Aiming at the difficulty of unknown Trojan detection in the APT flooding situation, an improved detecting method has been proposed. The basic idea of this method originates from advanced persistent threat (APT) attack intents: besides dealing with damaging or destroying facilities, the more essential purpose of APT attacks is to gather confidential data from target hosts by planting Trojans. Inspired by this idea and some in-depth analyses on recently happened APT attacks, five typical communication characteristics are adopted to describe application’s network behavior, with which a fine-grained classifier based on Decision Tree and Naïve Bayes is modeled. Finally, with the training of supervised machine learning approaches, the classification detection method is implemented. Compared with general methods, this method is capable of enhancing the detection and awareness capability of unknown Trojans with less resource consumption.