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Commercial Honeypots for Windows? Will 01-28-2007
Posted by Will on January 28, 2007, 3:18 pm
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Does any vendor make a commercial Honeypot for Windows, or one that emulates
Windows 2000? I have a trojan on a DMZ that is spreading itself by SMB to
other machines, and I want to see in detail what files it is grabbing and
replacing. I can of course configure a Windows 2000 host and then use
Sysinternals tools to get the same information, but it's more work than I
want, and I am hoping to find a commercial tool that would save time.

I saw a lot of freeware research tools, but they all looked like they would
take as much time to learn and install and make work as doing things the
hard way using Sysinternals.

--
Will



Posted by Bogwitch on January 28, 2007, 5:41 pm
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Will wrote:
> Does any vendor make a commercial Honeypot for Windows, or one that emulates
> Windows 2000? I have a trojan on a DMZ that is spreading itself by SMB to
> other machines, and I want to see in detail what files it is grabbing and
> replacing. I can of course configure a Windows 2000 host and then use
> Sysinternals tools to get the same information, but it's more work than I
> want, and I am hoping to find a commercial tool that would save time.
>
> I saw a lot of freeware research tools, but they all looked like they would
> take as much time to learn and install and make work as doing things the
> hard way using Sysinternals.
>

If you can't be bothered to run up a few sysinternal tools, then
analysing honeypot information would be of little use to you. That said,
I don't know much^wanything about commercial honeypots. I would imagine
they will take as much effort to sort out as the freeware tools.

It might be simpler to use a virtual machine or two and investigate it
that way. Since you're confident with sysinternal stuff (I guess), you
could simplify the process with InCtrl5.

HTH,

Bogwitch.

Posted by Will on January 28, 2007, 6:21 pm
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> Will wrote:
> > Does any vendor make a commercial Honeypot for Windows, or one that
emulates
> > Windows 2000? I have a trojan on a DMZ that is spreading itself by SMB
to
> > other machines, and I want to see in detail what files it is grabbing
and
> > replacing. I can of course configure a Windows 2000 host and then use
> > Sysinternals tools to get the same information, but it's more work than
I
> > want, and I am hoping to find a commercial tool that would save time.
> >
> > I saw a lot of freeware research tools, but they all looked like they
would
> > take as much time to learn and install and make work as doing things the
> > hard way using Sysinternals.
>
> If you can't be bothered to run up a few sysinternal tools, then
> analysing honeypot information would be of little use to you. That said,
> I don't know much^wanything about commercial honeypots. I would imagine
> they will take as much effort to sort out as the freeware tools.

It's not running them that takes time. It's configuring the filters to
exclude the things that don't matter that takes time. And writing down the
results so you have a clear track of what happened. And coordinating the
inputs of file system, registry, user logins, etc...

It would surely be much easier to have the honeypot summarize all activity
against the system from a single source, in a single log.

--
Will



Posted by =?Utf-8?B?RW5nZWw=?= on January 28, 2007, 5:42 pm
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Hello Will,


Read about Specter
http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1683

"Will" wrote:

> Does any vendor make a commercial Honeypot for Windows, or one that emulates
> Windows 2000? I have a trojan on a DMZ that is spreading itself by SMB to
> other machines, and I want to see in detail what files it is grabbing and
> replacing. I can of course configure a Windows 2000 host and then use
> Sysinternals tools to get the same information, but it's more work than I
> want, and I am hoping to find a commercial tool that would save time.
>
> I saw a lot of freeware research tools, but they all looked like they would
> take as much time to learn and install and make work as doing things the
> hard way using Sysinternals.
>
> --
> Will
>
>
>

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