arXiv:2610.11133v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Operating System (OS) Fingerprinting is a technique that can be used to identify a network's operating systems by evaluating network traffic in the form of TCP/IP packets. This research will explore the effectiveness of passively identifying operating systems on the CIC-IDS2017 dataset, a collection of over 47 gigabytes of pcap files with their corresponding operating systems. This research also proposes a new command line interface, OsirisML, which uses nPrint to preprocess the data into tabular data and XGBoost to apply ML to the data to generate, retrain, and test ML models. When packets are split randomly between training and testing, OsirisML models reach an accuracy of 97.66% on a down-sampled subset of the Friday capture and 84.69% on the entire capture. On the entire Monday capture, which contains no attacks, OsirisML reaches an accuracy of 73.83% and an F-1 score of 79.38%.
Machine Learning Optimization for Enhanced OS Fingerprinting
Researchers behind the arXiv paper 2610.11133v1 report that OsirisML, a new command line interface combining nPrint preprocessing with XGBoost, reached 97.66% accuracy in passively identifying operating systems on a down-sampled subset of the Friday capture of the CIC-IDS2017 dataset, which contains over 47 gigabytes of pcap files. On the entire Friday capture the OsirisML models reached 84.69% accuracy, while on the attack-free Monday capture they reached 73.83% accuracy and a 79.38% F-1 score. The work evaluates passive OS fingerprinting from TCP/IP packet traffic and provides a tool to generate, retrain, and test the machine learning models.
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