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Question N9
What honeypot systems were attacked the most?
What ports were open on each of them?
Why do you think a machines with close IP addresses were attacked differently?



What To Consider

Why a honeypot should be attacked more than another one ?
Proportionally to its taste of 'honey' to an attacker, one would say.
Technically we have to consider the following:
Were there different OSes ?
Had they maybe been fingerprinted before the attack took place ?

We don't have stats on the oses, but we do have (or we CAN get) information about the services running on different machines, through the analysis of their communications!


We should take a look at the TTL of the packets - Different OSes forge packet with different TTL

Ports they were talking from

Presence of TcpResets packets:

(20:55:16) Dani3l3: If i grep for 'RST' i get all the tcp reset packets
(20:55:28) Dani3l3: which are probably sent in response to a scan/attack of a port that's CLOSED
(20:55:42) Brennan: nice, good call
(20:55:45) Dani3l3: so we can also map services....for what is NOT running on machines
(20:55:56) Dani3l3: the other way around
so for example those where 135 is closed are unix and not windows for sure, just for once






Most Attacked Honeypots

This considers the IP addresses 11.11.11.x as DESTINATION Address.
The following is ACID's 'Most Frequent 15 Destination Addresses' Pre-Built query. Simple and lazy, as Dani@NL who run it.
It obviously includes only honeynet's member, but it could have reported also external hosts. This reassures us that data_limit worked (see LayoutHoney).






Network Layout - Setup (Also Open Ports)
Based on all of these considerations, we suppose the honeynet was structured as follows:

LayoutHoney



Honeypots That Were Compromised

Question7



Why Were They Attacked ?


REFERENCE:
http://www.giac.org/practical/GCIH/Anton_Chuvakin_GCIH.pdf
http://www.honeynet.org
http://www.dshield.org
http://www.chuvakin.org/honeynet/
http://www.muscetta.org/research/