Virtual Machine Introspection Based SSH Honeypot
Stewart Sentanoe, Benjamin Taubmann, Hans P. Reiser · 2017
A honeypot provides information about the new attack and exploitation methods and allows analyzing the adversary's activities during or after exploitation. One way of an adversary to communicate with a server is via secure shell (SSH). SSH provides secure login, file transfer, X11 forwarding, and TCP/IP connections over untrusted networks. SSH is a preferred target for attacks, as it is frequently used with password-based authentication, and weak passwords are easily exploited using brute-force attacks.