Handling webshell attacks: A systematic map** and survey

A Hannousse, S Yahiouche - Computers & Security, 2021 - Elsevier
In recent years, there has been a significant increase in research interest in webshell
attacks. Webshells are pieces of code that can be written in different scripting languages …

Webshell detection based on executable data characteristics of php code

Z Pan, Y Chen, Y Chen, Y Shen… - … and mobile computing, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A webshell is a malicious backdoor that allows remote access and control to a web server by
executing arbitrary commands. The wide use of obfuscation and encryption technologies …

A deep learner model for multi-language webshell detection

A Hannousse, MC Nait-Hamoud… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Webshell attacks are becoming more and more prevalent every year. Webshells are
malicious scripts injected into web servers in the aim to confiscate persistent and remote …

MBTree: Detecting encryption RATs communication using malicious behavior tree

C Dong, Z Lu, Z Cui, B Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network trace signature matching is one reliable approach to detect active Remote Control
Trojan,(RAT). Compared to statistical-based detection of malicious network traces in the face …

A new method for webshell detection based on bidirectional gru and attention mechanism

Z Liu, D Li, L Wei - Security and Communication Networks, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
With the rapid development of hacker technology, network security issues have become
increasingly serious. Uploading WebShell is one of the most common attack methods used …

A web shell detection method based on multiview feature fusion

T Zhu, Z Weng, L Fu, L Ruan - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Web shell is a malicious script file that can harm web servers. Web shell is often used by
intruders to perform a series of malicious operations on website servers, such as privilege …

BERT‐Embedding‐Based JSP Webshell Detection on Bytecode Level Using XGBoost

A Pu, X Feng, Y Zhang, X Wan, J Han… - Security and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Webshell is a malicious program that might result in data theft, file modification, or other
damaging behaviors once uploaded to a server. Detecting webshells is a key security …

Research and application of artificial intelligence based webshell detection model: A literature review

M Ma, L Han, C Zhou - arxiv preprint arxiv:2405.00066, 2024 - arxiv.org
Webshell, as the" culprit" behind numerous network attacks, is one of the research hotspots
in the field of cybersecurity. However, the complexity, stealthiness, and confusing nature of …

Webshell attack detection based on a deep super learner

Z Ai, N Luktarhan, AJ Zhou, D Lv - Symmetry, 2020 - mdpi.com
WebShell is a common network backdoor attack that is characterized by high concealment
and great harm. However, conventional WebShell detection methods can no longer cope …

A proactive method of the webshell detection and prevention based on deep traffic analysis

HV Le, HP Du, HN Nguyen… - … Journal of Web and …, 2022 - inderscienceonline.com
The popularity of today's web application has led to web servers frequently the objects of
webshell attacks. In this paper, we propose a new deep inspection method that is composed …