Journal of Information Processing
Online ISSN : 1882-6652
ISSN-L : 1882-6652
 
JABBERWOCK: A Tool for WebAssembly Dataset Generation and Its Application to Malicious Website Detection
Chika KomiyaNaoto YanaiKyosuke YamashitaShingo Okamura
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2024 Volume 32 Pages 298-307

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Machine learning is often used for malicious website detection, but an approach incorporating WebAssembly as a feature has not been explored due to a limited number of samples, to the best of our knowledge. In this paper, we propose JABBERWOCK (JAvascript-Based Binary EncodeR by WebAssembly Optimization paCKer), a tool to generate WebAssembly datasets in a pseudo fashion via JavaScript. Loosely speaking, JABBERWOCK automatically gathers JavaScript code in the real world, converts them into WebAssembly, and then outputs vectors of the WebAssembly as samples for malicious website detection. We experimentally evaluate JABBERWOCK from three perspectives. First, we measure its processing time. Second, we compare the samples generated by JABBERWOCK with the actual WebAssembly gathered from the Internet. Third, we investigate if JABBERWOCK can be used in malicious website detection. Regarding the processing time, we show that JABBERWOCK can construct a dataset in 4.5 seconds per sample for any number of samples. Next, comparing 10,000 samples output by JABBERWOCK with 168 gathered WebAssembly samples, we believe that the generated samples by JABBERWOCK are similar to those in the real world. We then show that JABBERWOCK can provide malicious website detection with 99% F1-score because JABBERWOCK makes a gap between benign and malicious samples as the reason for the above high score. We also confirm that JABBERWOCK can be combined with an existing malicious website detection tool to improve F1-scores. JABBERWOCK is publicly available via GitHub (https://github.com/c-chocolate/Jabberwock).

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