Archive for March 2016

SSH outbound connections – what are they trying?

Still fascinated by the outbound connection attempts from my Cowrie honeypot, I’ve been looking into what the intruders are trying to obtain with the outbound connections. As previously mentioned, there are bots actively attempting outbound connections towards a lot of remote services. Most are simply TCP socket connection attempts, but now and again the connection […]

Visualizing honeypot activity, part II: Tree maps

In some earlier posts, I’ve written about bots bruteforcing their way into my Cowrie honeypot, and trying to establish outbound tunnels from there. While regular honeypot activity will often produce interesting logs of intrusion attempts and malware downloads, this kind of monotonous activity is less interesting from an analysis-point-of-view. However, the activity is still interesting […]

Threat intelligence: OTX, Bro, SiLK, BIND RPZ, OSSEC

Building a toolbox around threat intelligence can be done with freely available tools. Shared information about malicious behaviour allows you to detect and sometimes prevent activity from – and to – Internet resources that could compromise your systems’ security. I’ve already described how to use lists of malicious domain names in a BIND RPZ (Response […]

ClamAV client/server setup

Note: This may very well be well-known information, but I found it difficult to get exact answers from the official ClamAV documentation, available man pages, and other kinds of documentation. The most useful hint originated from a mailing list thread considering ClamAV version 0.70, which is getting rather outdated. My original issue was getting antivirus […]