Technology
A single HoneyMonkey is an automated program, that tries to mimic the action of a user surfing the net. A series of HoneyMonkeys are run on virtual machines running Windows XP, at various levels of patching — some are fully patched, some fully vulnerable, and others in between these two extremes. The HoneyMonkey program records every read or write of the file system and registry, thus keeping a log of what data was collected by the web-site and what software was installed by it. Once the program leaves a site, this log is analyzed to determine if any malware has been loaded. In such cases, the log of actions is sent for further manual analysis to an external controller program, which logs the exploit data and restarts the virtual machine to allow it to crawl other sites starting in a known uninfected state.
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