StinAttack: A Lightweight and Effective Adversarial Attack Simulation to Ensemble IDSs for Satellite- Terrestrial Integrated Network

Effective adversarial attacks simulation is essential for the deployment of ensemble Intrusion Detection Systems (en- semble IDSs) in Satellite-Terrestrial Integrated Network (STIN). This is because it can automatically generate a large amount of adversarial samples to evaluate the robustness of different classifiers. Based on the result, it can further guide the STIN engineers to select proper classifiers in ensemble IDSs. Moreover, it can help the IDSs improve detect performance by their self- learning property in the adversarial attack process. However, the existing adversarial attack approaches suffer from the problems of low success rate and high overhead of communication and calculation due to the limited computing resources and long communication links of STIN. This results in their inefficiency in STIN. To address the above problems, we provide StinAttack as a robustness evaluation scheme for STIN. First, StinAttack provides a comprehensive and automatic robustness evaluation framework for IDSs in STIN with only few times interactions between terrestrial and satellite nodes. Second, StinAttack proposes an effective adversarial attack simulation based on lightweight gradient evaluation for ensemble IDSs. Third, we conduct experiments on 11 typical IDSs, 4 baseline popular adversarial attacks and our StinAttack. Experimental results show that our approach can effectively attack ensemble IDSs and the evaluation results based on real STIN dataset are instructive for designing secure networks.