Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20070208822
Filing Date: March 01, 2006
Inventors: Yi-Min Wang, Douglas Beck
Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
Current U.S. Classification: 709, 709/217000
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The system as recited in Claim 2, wherein the tracer module produces a trace file that includes at least a list of writes that occur outside a browser sandbox.
Submitted by: Kathy WangLast updated: 6 months ago
Title Using Honeyclients to Detect New Attacks
Description
Honeyclients are systems that drive a piece of vulnerable client software to potentially malicious sites, and monitor system behavior for indicators of compromise. Each honeyclient is a virtual host, and drives applications such as web browsers to user-specified URLs, looking for signs of malicious behavior when accessing that URL. The malicious behavior is flagged via an integrity check capability, which monitors for changes in files, registry key values, and processes. Upon detection of suspicious behavior, the honeyclient virtual machine is suspended, a new clone is created, and the spidering process continues.
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