Chapter 9. Detecting Honeypots
9.1 Detecting Low-Interaction Honeypots
9.2 Detecting High-Interaction Honeypots
9.3 Detecting Rootkits
9.4 Summary
Although honeypots are a great resource for investigating adversaries or automatic exploitation via worms, the amount of information we can learn depends on how realistic the honeypots are. If an adversary breaks into a machine and immediately notices that she broke into a honeypot, her reaction might be to remove all evidence and leave the machine alone. On the other hand, if the fact that she broke into a honeypot remains undetected, she could use it to store attack tools and launch further attacks on other systems. This makes it very important to provide realistic-looking honeypots. For low-interaction ...
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