Re: Building an Honeypot using VMWare

[Bill McCarty <bmccarty () apu edu>]

Hi Bruno and all,

--On Monday, November 04, 2002 3:58 PM +0000 Bruno MAC Castro 
<bcastro () dei uc pt> wrote:

> 4. It would be important to hide the VMWare process on the Guest. I need
> a tool (or a solution) to cover or hide the VMWare process in both
> systems. Ideas?

There are several other ways for an attacker to determine that the 
compromised host is a virtual host. For example, a virtual machine's 
virtual network adapters have distinctive MAC addresses. Similarly, the 
BIOS string and information from emulated PCI probes can give away the game.

On the other hand, worms and script kiddies won't care much -- or possibly 
even notice -- that they've compromised a virtual machine. Yes, askilled 
blackhat might notice and care. But, concealing the virtual nature of a 
honeypot from that species is probably beyond the state of the art -- 
possibly a good topic for a master's thesis in itself <grin>.

Cheers,

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Bill McCarty