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Table 5 The frequency distribution of attack categories of the CIC-IDS2018 dataset

From: Machine learning-based network intrusion detection for big and imbalanced data using oversampling, stacking feature embedding and feature extraction

Attack categories

Count

(%) Percentage

Benign

6,58,454

70.553

DDOS attack-HOIC

68,601

7.351

DDoS attacks-LOIC-HTTP

57,619

6.174

DoS attacks-Hulk

46,191

4.949

Bot

28,619

3.067

FTP-BruteForce

19,336

2.072

SSH-Bruteforce

18,759

2.01

Infilteration

16,193

1.735

DoS attacks-SlowHTTPTest

13,989

1.499

DoS attacks-GoldenEye

4151

0.445

DoS attacks-Slowloris

1099

0.118

DDOS attack-LOIC-UDP

173

0.019

Brute Force -Web

61

0.007

Brute Force -XSS

23

0.002

SQL Injection

9

0.001

Total

9,33,277

100