Active versus Passive Malware Collection
Ying–Dar Lin, Chia‐Yin Lee, Yu‐Sung Wu, Pei-Hsiu Ho, Fuyu Wang, Yi-Lang Tsai · Computer · 2013
An exploration of active and passive malware honeypots reveals that the two systems yield vastly different malware collections and that peer-to-peer file sharing is an important, but often overlooked, malware source.