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A Framework for Malicious Domain Names Detection using Feature Selection and Majority Voting Approach

Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: As cyber attacks become more sophisticated, identifying and mitigating bad domainnames has become critical to assuring the security of online environments. This paperpresents a framework for detecting malicious domain names using a feature selectionstrategy and a majority vote method. The suggested methodology begins with theextraction of important features from domain names and their related characteristics,followed by a rigorous feature selection procedure to determine the most discriminatingattributes. To accomplish feature selection, a variety of feature selection techniques areused, including chi-square statistics, information gain, gain ratio, and correlation-basedfeature selection, to analyse the value of each characteristic in distinguishing benign andmalicious domain names. In addition, a majority voting strategy is utilised to improvethe detection system’s overall accuracy and reliability by combining the predictions ofdifferent classifiers such as AdaBoost, logistic regression, k-nearest neighbours, naivebayes, and multilayer perceptron. The ensemble of classifiers is trained on the idealfeatures, yielding a complete and robust model capable of accurately recognising mali-cious domain names while minimising false positives. The proposed approach is evalu-ated against real-world examples of harmful domain names. The suggested frameworkemploying Chi-square feature selection and majority voting detects malicious domainnames with an accuracy of 99.44%, precision of 99.44%, recall of 99.44%, and f-measureof 99.44%. The use of feature selection and a majority voting technique improves thesystem’s adaptability and resilience in the face emerging cyber threats.
Source: Informatica
DOI: 10.31449/inf.v48i3.5824
Language: English
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4403431102
FWCI: 0.387
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