A Hybrid Abnormal Advertising Traffic Detection Method

Kun Wang, Guohai Xu, Chengyu Wang, Xiaofeng He

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Abstract

Abnormal traffic is pervasive in the online advertising market. There are various cheating approaches while traditional anti-fraud methods are only effective for specific patterns. Combining the rule-based methods with supervised classification methods, we propose an abnormal traffic detection framework on both user layer and traffic layer. On the user layer, rule-based filters are designed to detect malicious users with duplicate clicks. We extract hybrid features under multi-granular time windows and train a user classifier to filter cheaters and complex spams indirectly. On traffic layer, we apply traffic filters to detect explicit fraudulent clicks and use a prediction model to detect malicious traffic with a higher precision. Extensive experiments on ground-truth data demonstrate the effectiveness of our detection method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Knowledge, ICBK 2017
EditorsXindong Wu, Xindong Wu, Tamer Ozsu, Jim Hendler, Ruqian Lu
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages236-241
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781538631195
DOIs
StatePublished - 30 Aug 2017
Event8th IEEE International Conference on Big Knowledge, ICBK 2017 - Hefei, China
Duration: 9 Aug 201710 Aug 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Knowledge, ICBK 2017

Conference

Conference8th IEEE International Conference on Big Knowledge, ICBK 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHefei
Period9/08/1710/08/17

Keywords

  • abnormal traffic
  • anti-fraud
  • hybrid features

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