Shell Commands Used by Participants of Hands-on Cybersecurity Training
Linked on 8/24/2023
We present a dataset of 21459 shell commands from 275 participants who attended cybersecurity training and solved assignments in the Linux terminal. Each acquired data record contains a command with its arguments and metadata, such as a timestamp, working directory, and host identification in the emulated training infrastructure. The commands were captured in Bash, ZSH, and Metasploit shells. The data are stored as JSON records collected using an open-source logging toolset and two open-source interactive learning environments. Researchers and developers may freely use the dataset or deploy the learning environments with the logging toolset to generate their own data in the same format.
Dataset Characteristics
Sequential
Subject Area
Computer Science
Associated Tasks
Classification, Regression, Clustering, Other
Feature Type
Categorical, Integer
# Instances
21459
# Features
9
Dataset Information
Who funded the creation of the dataset?
This research was supported by ERDF project CyberSecurity, CyberCrime and Critical Information Infrastructures Center of Excellence (No. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000822).
What do the instances in this dataset represent?
Linux shell commands submitted by trainees.
Does the dataset contain data that might be considered sensitive in any way?
No. The data are anonymous and cannot be linked to specific individuals.
Was there any data preprocessing performed?
Missing and invalid records were removed.
Additional Information
Detailed description and documentation of the dataset is available in the associated open-access journal paper: Valdemar Švábenský, Jan Vykopal, Pavel Seda, Pavel Čeleda. Dataset of Shell Commands Used by Participants of Hands-on Cybersecurity Training. In Elsevier Data in Brief. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2021.107398
Has Missing Values?
No
Introductory Paper
By Valdemar Švábenský, Jan Vykopal, Pavel Seda, Pavel Čeleda. 2021
Published in Data in Brief
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pip install ucimlrepo
from ucimlrepo import fetch_ucirepo # fetch dataset shell_commands_used_by_participants_of_hands_on_cybersecurity_training = fetch_ucirepo(id=869) # data (as pandas dataframes) X = shell_commands_used_by_participants_of_hands_on_cybersecurity_training.data.features y = shell_commands_used_by_participants_of_hands_on_cybersecurity_training.data.targets # metadata print(shell_commands_used_by_participants_of_hands_on_cybersecurity_training.metadata) # variable information print(shell_commands_used_by_participants_of_hands_on_cybersecurity_training.variables)
Švábenský,Valdemar, Vykopal,Jan, Seda,Pavel, and Čeleda,Pavel. (2023). Shell Commands Used by Participants of Hands-on Cybersecurity Training. UCI Machine Learning Repository. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8136017.
@misc{misc_shell_commands_used_by_participants_of_hands-on_cybersecurity_training_869,
author = {Švábenský,Valdemar, Vykopal,Jan, Seda,Pavel, and Čeleda,Pavel},
title = {{Shell Commands Used by Participants of Hands-on Cybersecurity Training}},
year = {2023},
howpublished = {UCI Machine Learning Repository},
note = {{DOI}: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8136017}
}Citations/Acknowledgements
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Creators
Valdemar Švábenský
valdemar@mail.muni.cz
Masaryk University
Jan Vykopal
vykopal@fi.muni.cz
Masaryk University
Pavel Seda
seda@fi.muni.cz
Masaryk University
Pavel Čeleda
celeda@fi.muni.cz
Masaryk University