IEEE Access (Jan 2020)

Web Application Attack Detection Based on Attention and Gated Convolution Networks

  • Jiancong Li,
  • Yusheng Fu,
  • Jie Xu,
  • Chunhui Ren,
  • Xin Xiang,
  • Jinhong Guo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2955674
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8
pp. 20717 – 20724

Abstract

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This paper proposes an anomaly detection model based on the reconstruction error to detect malicious requests in a Web application. Our model combines a multi-head attention network and gated convolution network to capture the pattern of a normal request. Moreover, we use a novel segmentation method to enhance the structural representation of a request and embed a raw request into a feature matrix. The result of this experiment indicates that our model has good ability to distinguish between normal and abnormal requests.

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