Re: Honeypot detection and countermeasures

[Blake Matheny <bmatheny () mkfifo net>]

There are several techniques to detect honeypots. 4tphi had released this
(http://lists.insecure.org/lists/honeypots/2002/Oct-Dec/0029.html) in late
2002 for determining whether you are in a VMWare session. There are several
attacks against honeynet (looking for rate limiting, checking known exploits,
etc.). I'd suggest looking at the honeynet site. As Lance says, "... we are
not perfect", which I think can be used to an advantage.

-Blake

Whatchu talkin' 'bout, Willis?
> I'm doing some research on honeypot detection, and preventing
> honeypots from being detected. I'd greatly appreciate some feedback
> from pen-testers on the following issues:
>
> Do you worry about being detected by honeypots?
>
> When you do a pen-test, do you already know of the existence of
> honeypots, and their location, so that it is an easy matter to avoid
> them?
>
> If you are concerned about honeypots, how do you test to see if the
> system under attack is a honeypot or a production machine?
>
> Thanks,
>   Larry
>
>
>
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