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Detecting Client-side Exploits with Honeyclients Kathy Wang The Honeyclient Project knwang1@yahoo.com 9/17/2008RAID 2008
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9/17/2008RAID 2008 Problem n Client-side exploits are a growing threat –Lots of client-side vulnerabilities n Microsoft Internet Explorer has more than 50 serious vulnerabilities in last 6 months (SecurityFocus database) –Lots of client-side exploits n 90% of all PCs harbor spyware (Webroot, 2006) n We need to be able to proactively detect and characterize client-side attacks before we get hit We lack a proactive detection technology for client-side attacks
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9/17/2008RAID 2008 A ‘Business’ Model
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9/17/2008RAID 2008 Another Business Model
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9/17/2008RAID 2008 Honeyclient Case Examples Please DO NOT go to any of the sites on the following slides unless you REALLY know what you’re doing!!!)
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9/17/2008RAID 2008 www.world0fwarcraft.net (Changes) Suspicious file
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9/17/2008RAID 2008 www.world0fwarcraft.net (Changes) Where’s /etc/hosts file??? Definitely suspicious
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9/17/2008RAID 2008 www.world0fwarcraft.net (Changes)
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9/17/2008RAID 2008 www.world0fwarcraft.net (Scans )
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9/17/2008RAID 2008 www.sharky.in (Changes) This definitely doesn’t look good…
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9/17/2008RAID 2008 www.sharky.in (Scan) Poor results on scans…
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9/17/2008RAID 2008 Background - Honeyclients n Honeyclients provide capability to proactively detect client-side exploits –A honeyclient is a system that drives a client application to potentially malicious servers –Any changes made on honeyclient system are unauthorized – no false positives! –We detect exploits even without prior signatures
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9/17/2008RAID 2008 Basic Honeyclient Package Client- side Exploit Database Malicious Server RequestResponse Linux Host Traffic logs Windows VM Honeyclient Prototype Capabilities Integrity checks Drive IE Extract URLs Recurse (Internal) Recurse (External) Virtual host Protective firewall Exploit DB Image rotation Modular clients Traffic history Secure logging Memory checks Honeyclient Network Internet
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9/17/2008RAID 2008 Additional Project Information n Project website http://honeyclient.mitre.org n Mailing list honeyclient@mitre.org n We need beta testers! http://www.honeyclient.org/trac/wiki/download n Developers are welcome too! SVN repository is available
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