Passive OS Fingerprinting Methods in the Jungle of Wireless Networks

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14610%2F18%3A00106883" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14610/18:00106883 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8406262" target="_blank" >https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8406262</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/NOMS.2018.8406262" target="_blank" >10.1109/NOMS.2018.8406262</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Passive OS Fingerprinting Methods in the Jungle of Wireless Networks

Original language description

Operating system fingerprinting methods are well-known in the domain of static networks and managed environments. Yet few studies tackled this challenge in real networks, where users can bring and connect any device. We evaluate the performance of three OS fingerprinting methods on a large dataset collected from university wireless network. Our results show that method based on HTTP User-agents is the most accurate but can identify only low portion of the traffic. TCP/IP parameters method proved to be the opposite with high identification rate but low accuracy. We also implemented a new method based on detection of communication to OS-specific domains and its performance is comparable to the two established ones. After that, we discuss the impacts of traffic encryption and embracing new protocols such as IPv6 or HTTP/2.0 on OS fingerprinting. Our findings suggest that OS identification based on specific domain detection is viable and corresponds to the current directions of network traffic evolution, while methods based on TCP/IP parameters and User-agents will become ineffective in the future.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

<a href="/en/project/VI20172020070" target="_blank" >VI20172020070: Research of Tools for Cyber Situational Awareness and Decision Support of CSIRT Teams in Protection of Critical Infrastructure</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

NOMS 2018 - 2018 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium

ISBN

9781538634165

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

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Publisher name

IEEE Xplore Digital Library

Place of publication

Taipei, Taiwan

Event location

Taipei, Taiwan

Event date

Jan 1, 2018

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000541820800150