SteliosZ / CICFlowMeter-1

CICFlowmeter-V4.0 (formerly known as ISCXFlowMeter) is an Ethernet traffic Bi-flow generator and analyzer for anomaly detection that has been used in many Cybersecurity datsets such as Android Adware-General Malware dataset (CICAAGM2017), IPS/IDS dataset (CICIDS2017), Android Malware dataset (CICAndMal2017) and Distributed Denial of Service (CICDDoS2019).

CICFlowMeter v4.0 - Installation Instructions

The official repository on github is : https://github.com/ahlashkari/CICFlowMeter

To properly compile CICFlowMeter you need Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA (The latter is recommended)

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Installation steps for Ubuntu 20.04 (As of 19.04.2021)

1. Installation of pre-requisites

   • sudo apt update
   • sudo apt install maven openjdk-11-jdk -y

2. Clone repository

   • git clone https://github.com/ahlashkari/CICFlowMeter
   • cd CICFlowMeter

3. Maven-install jnetpcap (included in the repository)

   • cd jnetpcap/linux/jnetpcap-1.4.r1425
   • mvn install:install-file -Dfile=jnetpcap.jar -DgroupId=org.jnetpcap -DartifactId=jnetpcap -Dversion=1.4.1 -Dpackaging=jar

4. IntelliJ IDEA

   • Download and install IntelliJ IDEA.
   • Open the git-cloned folder as a gradle project.
   • Ignore the warnings and let it index the project.

5. Run the project

   • Open a terminal inside IntelliJ IDEA
   • sudo bash
   • ./gradlew run
   • Press Ctrl+Enter to run the command and not just Enter !

6. Build the project for native use

   • Open a terminal inside IntelliJ IDEA
   • sudo bash
   • ./gradlew distZip
   • Press Ctrl+Enter to run the command and not just Enter !
   • The zip will be at ./build/distributions

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Installation steps for Windows 10 (As of 19.04.2021)

1. Download and install IntelliJ IDEA

2. Install any java version.

3. Clone repository

4. Open the CICFlowMeter folder as a gradle project

5. Ignore the warning and let it index the project

6. Open terminal in IntelliJ IDEA

   • mvn install:install-file -Dfile=jnetpcap.jar -DgroupId=org.jnetpcap -DartifactId=jnetpcap -Dversion=1.4.1 -Dpackaging=jar
   • Press Ctrl+Enter to run the command and not just Enter !

7. Run the project

   • Right-Click at 'gradlew'
   • Run
   • Open a terminal in IntelliJ IDEA
   • gradlew run
   • Press Ctrl+Enter to run the command and not just Enter !

8. Build the project for native use

   • Open a terminal
   • gradlew distZip
   • Press Ctrl+Enter to run the command and not just Enter !
   • The zip will be at ./build/distributions