Royal Bank of Canada
Systems and methods for cyberbot network detection

Abstract:

There is provided a neural network system for detection of domain generation algorithm generated domain names, the neural network system comprising: an input receiver configured for receiving domain names from one or more input sources; a convolutional neural network unit including one or more convolutional layers, the convolutional unit configured for receiving the input text and processing the input text through the one or more convolutional layers; a recurrent neural network unit including one or more long short term memory layers, the recurrent neural network unit configured to process the output from the convolutional neural network unit to perform pattern recognition; and a classification unit including one or more classification layers, the classification unit configured to receive output data from the recurrent neural network unit to perform a determination of whether the input text or portions of the input text are DGA-generated or benign domain names.