The Honeynet Project

We are proud and happy to announce that a new free malware analysis online service is born.

Malwr.com is based on Cuckoo Sandbox, a project mentored by the Honeynet Project, sponsored by GSoC and developped by Claudio "nex" Guarnieri (@botherder), Dario Fernandes and Alessandro "jekil" Tanasi (@jekil). Malwr.com hosting is provided by ShadowServer.

If you want to test Cuckoo's flavor before installing it or if you're too lazy to deploy your own sandbox, just go there ! :-)

http://malwr.com/
http://cuckoobox.org/

Cuckoo Sandbox 0.3.1 has been released.

The most interesting improvements include:

• Extensive book guiding from setup to customization.
• Improved analysis results processing engine.
• Modular reporting engine with default HTML, TXT and JSON reports being generated.
• Minimal web server/interface that allows you to browse, search and view HTML reports.
• Introduction of support to URL submission.
• UDP connections extraction.
• A cool new logo. :-)
• A lot of other things you can find listed in the CHANGELOG file.

Client honeypots are tools that actively search servers for malicious data like malware, exploits, malicious PDF files, etc.

The Polish Chapter just released a new version of Capture-HPC originally developed by Christian Seifert and Ramon Steenson of the New Zealand Chapter. Capture-HPC focuses primarily on attacks against, or involving the use of, Web browsers.

It is available for download as binary Debian package on Polish Chapter webpage:
http://pl.honeynet.org

Source code is made available via github:

Overview

Cuckoo Sandbox is an Open Source automated dynamic malware analysis system designed to analyze and report on suspicious files.
Cuckoo started as a Google Summer of Code project in 2010 within The Honeynet Project. It was designed and developed by Claudio Guarnieri who still maintains the project and lead its development efforts.

Cuckoo has been selected again this year for Google Summer of Code 2011 with The Honeynet Project and with Dario Fernandes who joined the team. The work being done in the last months lead to the release of the 0.2 version.

GSoC 2011 #8 project's goal was to add forensics features to the popular Wireshark network analyzer.

Overview

Wireshark is an open source network analyzer widely used for network debugging as well as security analysis. Wireshark provides network
analyzer with graphical interface as well as command line tools.
Wireshark also provides network protocol decoders and support filters that allow to search through packets with keywords.

GSoC plugins extend Wireshark capabilities when Wireshark is used to analyze network traffic with security and forensic in mind.

The Honeynet Project had mentored 12 projects this year for the Google Summer
of Code (GSoC). The 11th project was to extend the SIP module for
Dionaea to handle SIP udp, tcp and even tls. With the TLS part, the
Dionaea can even emulate a Microsoft Lync server. The TLS part was not
part of the original scope, but the hard work made that possible as
well!

[Dionaea] intention is to trap malware
exploiting vulnerabilities exposed by services offered to a network,
the ultimate goal is gaining a copy of the malware. With the SIP