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Mastering Machine Learning for Penetration Testing

By : Chiheb Chebbi
Book Image

Mastering Machine Learning for Penetration Testing

By: Chiheb Chebbi

Overview of this book

Cyber security is crucial for both businesses and individuals. As systems are getting smarter, we now see machine learning interrupting computer security. With the adoption of machine learning in upcoming security products, it’s important for pentesters and security researchers to understand how these systems work, and to breach them for testing purposes. This book begins with the basics of machine learning and the algorithms used to build robust systems. Once you’ve gained a fair understanding of how security products leverage machine learning, you'll dive into the core concepts of breaching such systems. Through practical use cases, you’ll see how to find loopholes and surpass a self-learning security system. As you make your way through the chapters, you’ll focus on topics such as network intrusion detection and AV and IDS evasion. We’ll also cover the best practices when identifying ambiguities, and extensive techniques to breach an intelligent system. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with identifying loopholes in a self-learning security system and will be able to efficiently breach a machine learning system.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Bypassing next generation malware detectors with generative adversarial networks

In 2014, Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and their team, proposed a framework called the generative adversarial network (GAN). Generative adversarial networks have the ability to generate images from a random noise. For example, we can train a generative network to generate images for handwritten digits from the MNIST dataset.

Generative adversarial networks are composed of two major parts: a generator and a discriminator.

The generator

The generator takes latent samples as inputs; they are randomly generated numbers, and they are trained to generate images:

For example, to generate a handwritten digit, the generator will be a fully connected...