Nepenthes Honeypots based Botnet Detection

Honeypot detection in advanced botnet attacks

Botnets have become one of the major attacks in current Internet due to their illicit profitable financial gain. Meanwhile, honeypots have been successfully deployed in many computer security defense systems. Since honeypots set up by security defenders can attract botnet compromises and become spies in exposing botnet membership and botnet attacker behaviors, they are widely used by security d...

Adaptability of IRC Botnet Detection Method to P2P Botnet Detection

This report mainly discusses the adaptability of the IRC-based Bot detection method to be used in the P2P-based Bot detection. The first section introduces the IRC-based bot and the newly appeared P2P-based bot to see their difference. The second section shows the related work and the traditional method of BOTNET detection. The third section discusses the methodology used by the IRC based Botne...

An Overview of ADSL Homed Nepenthes Honeypots In Western Australia

This paper outlines initial analysis from research in progress into ADSL homed Nepenthes honeypots. One of the Nepenthes honeypots prime objective in this research was the collection of malware for analysis and dissection. A further objective is the analysis of risks that are circulating within ISP networks in Western Australian. What differentiates Nepenthes from many traditional honeypot desi...

A Survey of Botnet Detection Techniques by Command and Control Infrastructure

Botnets have evolved to become one of the most serious threats to the Internet and there is substantial research on both botnets and botnet detection techniques. This survey reviewed the history of botnets and botnet detection techniques. The survey showed traditional botnet detection techniques rely on passive techniques, primarily honeypots, and that honeypots are not effective at detecting p...

Virtual Honeypots - From Botnet Tracking to Intrusion Detection