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All, SRI and Georgia Tech have been working on a pretty cool new tool that will quickly locate bot traffic inside a network. A government/military version of this software has been in use successfully for about a month, and a public version was made available this week. BotHunter introduces a new kind of passive network perimeter monitoring scheme, designed to recognize the intrusion and coordination dialog that occurs during a successful malware infection. It employs a novel dialog-based correlation engine (patent pending), which recognizes the communication patterns of malware-infected computers within your network perimeter. BotHunter is available for download at http://www.cyber-ta.org/BotHunter/ and runs under Linux Fedora, SuSE, and Debian distributions. There is also a highly interactive honeynet using BotHunter run by SRI you should look at. The URL is http://www.cyber-ta.org/releases/malware-analysis/public/. We are detecting dozens of new infections each day and this site is very helpful in understanding the behavior of the received malware. Also, it generates a nice list of potentially evil IP addresses and DNS queries. For both the BotHunter software and the honeynet we'd appreciate any feedback on ways to improve them. Contact details are in the download package and on the website. Marc -- Marcus H. Sachs, P.E. <[email protected]> SRI International 1100 Wilson Blvd Suite 2800, Arlington VA 22209 USA tel +1 703 247 8717 fax +1 703 247 8569 mob +1 703 932 3984 |