Analysis of Malware Attacks

by Jago Maniscalchi // June 16, 2009 // Exploits and Malware // No comments

I’ve been running a Nepenthes low interaction honey pot over the last few months and have collected almost 900 binaries, 80 of which are unique. Upcoming posts will focus on static and dynamic analysis of some of this malware.

Geographic Source of Attacks

I used the new Fusion Tables service from Google to visualise the geographical sources of some of the attacks. The intensity map below shows that the majority come from the UK, Eastern Europe, Russia and China.

About the Author

Jago Maniscalchi is a Cyber security consultant, though he tries to avoid the word "Cyber" at all costs. He has spent 15 years working with Information Systems and has experience in website hosting, software engineering, infrastructure management, data analysis and security assessment. Jago lives in London with his family, enough pets to start a small zooalogical society, and a Samsung NaviBot Robotic Vacuum Cleaner. Despite an aptitude for learning computer languages, his repeated attempts to learn Italian have resulted in spectacular failure.