Malware Capturing and Analysis using Dionaea Honeypot

The growth of internet and users has increased exponentially and drastically in this decade. It provides services inheriting various benefits to the users such as online banking, marketing, buying/selling and various facility management services etc. It attracts some people to develop programs that perform various malicious activities intentionally or unintentionally such as stealing sensitive information from computer, displaying advertisement, causing harmful, unwanted activities. The malicious software is referred as malware, viruses, worms, spyware, trojans, adware and botnets are also malwares. Therefore, in this paper, we run a honeypot and capture various zero-day attacks and malwares. The harmful and malicious activities of these malwares are studied by analyzing the network logs of the honeypot. Based on their properties and activities, the malwares are classified. These classifications of malware and their behavior help researchers to develop a security mechanism to prevent an organization from these kinds of harmful and malicious activities triggered by the malwares.