A host based DES approach for detecting ARP spoofing

Abstract

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) based attacks are caused by compromised hosts in the LAN and mainly involve spoofing with falsified IP-MAC pairs. Since ARP is a stateless protocol such attacks are possible. Neither there are signatures available for these attacks nor any significant statistical behavior change can be observed. So existing signature or anomaly intrusion detection systems are unable to detect these type of attacks. Several schemes have been proposed in the literature to circumvent these attacks, however, these techniques either make IP-MAC pairing static, modify the existing ARP, violate network layering architecture etc. In this paper a host based Discrete Event System (DES) approach is proposed for detecting ARP spoofing attacks. This approach does not require any extra constraint like static IP-MAC, changing the ARP or violation of network layering architecture.