DESS SSIC 2011/2012 - univ-Metz - MIM

Discovering and Learning Security Threats and Attackers
Using Honeynet/pot Technologies

Course Description

The subject of this course is to use the Honeynet/pot technologies as a tool to discover and learn existing and new threats to networked/distributed information system and better understand attackers behaviour. The course includes a project to build a custom honeypot or related tools to turn the theory into a practical session. The course requires a high involvement from the participants. The student will have access to an operational system during the sessions to operate a real world honeypot.

Project Details

During the period of the course, there will be a specific project to realize. The project is fully integrated into the course sessions that means some topics covered will help to enhance or complete your work.

Project definition and group composition (2 max) should be sent before end of January 2012. Project will be released under a free software license and using one of the following programming language: Python, Perl, Ruby, Go, Lua, Bash or Zsh. As the development of the project will be done on an operational system, the project along with its tools might evolve following the feedback received from the attackers themselves.

Caveats

You may find that the subject is too experimental and not yet mature for real-life application. If you have any issue with the course (including the way I teach it), don't hesitate to talk about as early as possible.

Sessions

Date/Where	Topics and support
Saturday Jan 14, 09:00-13:00 @computer room	The Attackers’ Principles The shortest, fastest and cheapest path : a common method for compromising information system Introduction to Honeypot Technologies A Tool For Improving Network Forensic Analysis cap 1 (MD5:65ca24413de7ab0ad6423ed2b6329056) cap 2 (MD5:db066fcd23e505349978236de5fb8977)
Saturday Jan 21, 09:00-13:00 @computer room	Packet Capture, Filtering and Analysis Today’s Challenges with 20 Years Old Issues Rootkit and Malware Analysis - a Quick Introduction
Saturday Jan 28, 09:00-12:30 @computer room	Packet Capture, Filtering and Analysis Today’s Challenges with 20 Years Old Issues The tools of the day flowtag, GNU Screen and socat.
Saturday Feb 11, 09:00-12:45 @computer room	Rootkit and Malware Analysis - a Quick Introduction
Saturday Feb 18, 09:00-12:45 @computer room	Learning from the attackers? Redis Introduction Passive DNS in 5 minutes?
Saturday March 2nd, 09:00-12:45 @computer room	Project review and coding. It's your time!

IP, TCP, UDP headers + TCP state transition diagram from TCP/IP illustrated, Volume 1

Bibliography

Know Your Enemy : Learning about Security Threats (2nd Edition) by Honeynet Project The (2004), Addison Wesley,ISBN:0321166469
The Internet Motion Sensor: A Distributed Blackhole Monitoring System by M Bailey, E Cooke, F Jahanian, J Nazario, D Watson
A Virtual Honeypot Framework by Niels Provos, USENIX Security '04 Paper
Towards an estimation of the accuracy of TCP reassembly in network forensics by Gerard Wagener, Alexandre Dulaunoy and Thomas Engel. Published in FGCN (2) 2008: 273-278.

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