SNIFFING DETECTION BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING
Balamurugan
Vasanth P
Associate Professor
Department of Computer
Department of Computer Science
Science and Engineering
and Engineering
Sri Sairam Engineering
Sri Sairam Engineering College
College Chennai , India
Chennai , India
sec20cs093@sairamtap.edu.in
lalitha.cse@sairam.edu.in
Abstract – Cyber attacks are on the rise and each day
cyber criminals are developing more and more
sophisticated methods to compromise the security of
their targets. Sniffing is one of the most important
techniques that enables the attacker to collect
information on the vulnerabilities of the devices,
protocols and applications that can be exploited within
the targeted network. It relies mainly on passively
analyzing the traffic exchanged within the network, and
due to its nature, such an activity is difficult to discover.
That is why, in this article, we first revisit existing
techniques and tools that can be used to perform
sniffing as well as the corresponding mitigation
methods. Based on this background, we propose a novel
measurement-based detection method that infers
whether the sniffing software is active on the suspected
machine by network traffic probing and machine
learning techniques. The presented experimental results
prove that the proposed solution is effective.
Keywords: Sniffing , security, network, network
traffic
INTRODUCTION
Sniffing is a typical part of the reconnaissance phase of
the network attack. It can be executed by the attacker who is
able to access the targeted network infrastructure. Moreover,
the attacker can analyze the passing network traffic using,
e.g., an insecure WIFI network, or as a result of successful
insider threat actions. The main aim of such activities is to
identify the machines, protocols and applications that are
running within the targeted network. After that the attacker
can determine the potential vulnerabilities that can be used
to compromise the network. In most cases these actions
precede he actual attack. Therefore, it must be noted that an
early detection of sniffing is of great importance as it allows
the defender to prepare for further attack phases.
LITERATURE SURVEY
1) System for reserving conference rooms across
numerous ministries/departments in various buildings -
Meeting and conference rooms are usually needed in
organizations to perform various activities. Every
organization, whether it be a business or a school, has
one conference room, it has been determined. This one
conference room must be used by many different
departments for their occasion. Therefore, there is
always a chance that the hall will be reserved on the
same day by two or more departments. The
departments won't learn about the timing conflict until
the day of the event; by then, it will be too late and
there won't be much time left to make a backup plan.
Therefore, it is necessary to reserve the hall in advance
and make the information known to others so they may
verify the condition of the venue before booking.
2) Celebrations - Online Venue Booking Management
Grihith S Youkesh G
Department of Computer Department of Computer
Science and Engineering Science and Engineering
Sri Sairam Engineering Sri Sairam Engineering
College Chennai , India College Chennai , India
sec20cs100@sairamtap.edu.i youkeshganesan1103@gmail
n .com
System - This system offers search options based on a
variety of criteria. We will create a web portal for this
system that will allow users to search portal venues.
This website will be used to check the availability of
venues, saving us from having to physically visit
them. The database will contain all of the data
pertaining to each hall. The ability of the system to
manage things like payments, customer reservations,
and halls is one of its most crucial features.
3) Online Movie Booking System – This project
essentially controls how a multiplex cinema centre
handles ticket sales by giving customers a user-friendly
Handy interface through which to do so in there
application software developed in the portal. They used
HTML, CSS for the front end web part and PHP Server
for the back end and for handling the database purpose
they have used a My SQL server the project is carried
out using a series of well-designed forms with
validations to guarantee the accuracy, consistency, and
most crucially, reliability of the data entered into the
database.
4) Creating and implementing an online booking system
for university sporting events the online booking
system of university sports venues, which is based on
the table tennis Hall of Zhengzhou University, is
designed to address the issue of uneven use of
university sports facilities. It combines the experience
of the current online booking systems, the key
techniques, and the primary ideal of developing these
systems both domestically and abroad. The system's
fundamental features, such as user registration and
login, online venue booking, online payment, personal
Centre, message board, and database creation, are
created in accordance with the analysis of general
requirements.
5) Hostel facility booking system employing a priority
algorithm - Since everything is now done online,
students at University Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA)
are in dire need of a hostel facility booking
management system. UniSZA still uses a manual
approach for booking at this time. The staff will need a
few days to approve their request. Thus, this approach
will enable UniSZA students to make reservations
online without having to wait days for clearance. In
order to give students, the ability to reserve a
conference room, court, hall, and student hall at the
hostel, this approach is proposed. Due to the
overwhelming number of other applications, personnel
may occasionally ignore the student application form.
Furthermore.
 PROPOSED SYSTEM

We propose a machine learning based Malicious URL detection

method that infers whether the given URL is malicious or not
and a machine learning based sniffing detection method that
infers whether the sniffing software is active on the suspected
machine and we present the tools that are publicly available and
can be used to defend attacks against such a threat.

1. Collecting organization IP’s using Wireshark

It includes the collecting the IP’s that accessed the organization
using Wireshark and converted it as a dataset

FIGURE 1: Collecting IP’s using Wireshark

Then the collected IP’s are analysed and the anonymous IP’s are
removed to protect the organization’s data.

FIGURE 2: HALL AVAILABLE

The dashboard includes information about the paid invoices,

reserved rooms, awaiting approvals, and open rooms. The
revenue report for the hall reservation was displayed on the
dashboard in literal terms. The dashboard is a page that has been
upgraded with automation features like report generation so that
the admin side can know about paid invoices, booked rooms, and
pending approvals. It also contains information about the users
who are waiting for the booking of hall dept wise and their
requirement for the specific time slot details and acceptance of
the booking detail and at some cases the booking can be
cancelled by the admin by any instance of time being in the
reservation system we have developed in our application.
 FIGURE 3: DASHBOARD

2 . Malicious URL Detection

The application information, which includes the part where
users' (students/faculty) details are filled out in order to
book the hall they prefer, and the venue details, which
contain a dropdown of the different halls that are available
on campus, are two of the four phases that make up the hall
booking process. Once a user selects the hall they want,
they are informed as to whether or not that particular hall is
available.

FIGURE4: HALL BOOKING

The third phase is guest details, which calls for information

on the principal guests who will attend the event as well as
who will host the event and who else will attend. The users
who have previously used the venues for events provide
feedback in the fourth phase.

FIGURE 5: HALL ADDING

The admin can add new venues (halls) that will be offered
to users (students/faculty) on the hall admin page in the
admin portal. The hall that is added here will be reflected on
the end user portal's hall booking page, where the user will
make-a-reservation.
1. DATABASE
The Database has been created in XAMPP php my
admin, in SQL Data format. The Database plays a
major role in our project as it is responsible for
registering customers details i.e., assigning usernames
and password, their personal information, hall
booking details in the college halls, hall details, admin
details, slot details,etc.

FIGURE 6: DATABASE FIGURE 8: USER INTERFACE

METHODOLOGY FEATURES OF PROPOSED SYSTEM

Tools and Frameworks that we used
for the implementation of our
project.
1. After implementing this project, the organization will
be more secure
Frontend: 2. Modification and maintenance can be made very easily
HTML, CSS, since the software is very much flexible.
Framework: 3. Very large data can be stored and also can be retrieved
BOOTSTRAP, PHP very easily.
Database: SQL 4. Speed and accuracy are maintained.
5. Data is collected in csv format
ENTITY DIAGRAM
6. The report can be taken in any format.
7. Elimination of manual processing in user department
8. Faster data processing compared to the manual
processing
9. Ease of Access Application Environment
10. User Friendly Application

CONCLUSION

The main objective of the project is to find whether the given

URL is malicious or not and a sniffing detection method that
infers whether the sniffing software is active on the suspected
machine using machine learning. Thus, the cybercrimes like data-
stealing that is faced by the organization will be reduced and will
make the organization good and better without losing data and to
protect the user’s data and privacy by detecting whether the URL
is malicious or not.

FIGURE 7: ADMIN INTERFACE

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