Challenge 1 posted - Signed books as prizes!

Monday, January 18. 2010
The first challenge of the Honeynet Forensic Challenge 2010 has been posted at http://honeynet.org/node/504. The task is to analyze a packet capture that was collected by a honeypot. Analyze and answer the following questions:
  1. Which systems (i.e. IP addresses) are involved? (2pts)
  2. What can you find out about the attacking host (e.g., where is it located)? (2pts)
  3. How many TCP sessions are contained in the dump file? (2pts)
  4. How long did it take to perform the attack? (2pts)
  5. Which operating system was targeted by the attack? And which service? Which vulnerability? (6pts)
  6. Can you sketch an overview of the general actions performed by the attacker? (6pts)
  7. What specific vulnerability was attacked? (2pts)
  8. What actions does the shellcode perform? Pls list the shellcode. (8pts)
  9. Do you think a Honeypot was used to pose as a vulnerable victim? Why? (6pts)
  10. Was there malware involved? Whats the name of the malware? (We are not looking for a detailed malware analysis for this challenge) (2pts)
  11. Do you think this is a manual or an automated attack? Why? (2pts)

Get the pcap at http://honeynet.org/files/attack-trace.pcap_.gz, they were provided together with the questions by Tillmann Werner. Deadline for submissions is Monday, February 1st 2010 at 17:00 EST. There will be some small prizes, among them signed copies of our book "Virtual Honeypots: From Botnet Tracking to Intrusion Detection". Full information is available at http://honeynet.org/node/504.