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Vol. 28 No. 3 (2025)

Published: September 30, 2025

Pages: 330-335

Articles

Support Vector Machine Prediction a Man in the Middle Attack on Traffic Networking

Nahla Ibraheem Jabbar 1
1 Department Chemical Engineering, University of Babylon, Iraq.
History
  • Received: August 1, 2024
  • Revised: October 23, 2024
  • Accepted: January 15, 2025
  • Available Online: September 29, 2025
DOI

https://doi.org/10.29194/NJES.28030330

Abstract

The goal of the study is to predict the Man in the Middle attack in the packets of Wireshark program by using Support Vector Machines (SVM).In the time of using the internet, it has become a tool targeted by attackers and hackers; it is a serious threat to the devices. A uniqueness of an attack that appears in multiple identities for legitimate agencies. It is very necessary to know the behavior attack and predict the possible actions of an attacker. In this research a detection of Man in the Middle attack by monitoring the Wireshark program and recording any changes can be recognized in packet information. The classification of packets is divided into two categories (normal and abnormal). The proposed model is designed in many stages: loading data, processing data, training data, and testing data. The detection of SVM based on abnormal network packet through movement packets in the Wireshark program that needs to deal with current packets to recognize a new attack that one does not have prior knowledge of its detection, and there is a need for an intelligent way to separate network packets that represent normal. The proposed approach achieved an accuracy of 97.34% in detecting attacks. The results show that the proposed model effectively visualizes attacker behavior from data that represents abnormal network attackers. Research achieves successful accuracy in predicting abnormalities.

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