ENHANCED DHS SECURITY: A HYBRID NEURAL NETWORK APPROACH FOR DETECTING TUNNELING ATTACKS
The Domain Name System (DNS) is widely used in network communication but is vulnerable to DNS tunneling attacks that hide malicious data within normal DNS traffic. This project proposes a hybrid neural network detection system using a Voting Classifier that combines Random Forest, XGBoost, and Multi-Layer Perceptron. The model is trained on the FGSM_combined dataset containing both normal and adversarial DNS traffic. Results show high accuracy and improved detection performance, and a Flask-based web application allows users to upload traffic data for instant attack detection.
Keywords: DNS Tunneling, Adversarial Attacks, Voting Classifier, Ensemble Learning, Hybrid Neural Network, FGSM, Random Forest, XGBoost, Multi-Layer Perceptron, and Intrusion Detection.