Web Application Attack Detection Based on Attention and Gated Convolution Networks

Jiancong Li, Yusheng Fu, Jie Xu, Chunhui Ren, Xin Xiang, Jinhong Guo · IEEE Access · 2019

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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