Open AccessPerformance Analysis of Malware Attack
Author(s) -
Nur Khairani Kamarudin,
Nur Nazifa Md Hasani,
Rafiza Ruslan,
Rashidah Ramle,
Nurul Hidayah Ahmad Zukri,
Iman Hazwam Abd Halim
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of computing research and innovation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2600-8793
DOI - 10.24191/jcrinn.v3i4.72
Subject(s) - malware , honeypot , computer security , rootkit , computer science , botnet , cryptovirology , sandbox (software development) , exploit , the internet , hacker , phishing , cybercrime , internet privacy , world wide web , operating system
People in this new era of modernization nowadays take Internet as one of the vital thing for daily activities.Internet is not only for adults, it is also a needs for people of all ages. However, network vulnerabilitiesexist in all network that are connected to the Internet. The network mostly are exposed to the malicioussoftware or mostly known as malware. In fact, this malware is growing rapidly and giving a bad impact tothe human intervention. The number of attack are increasing rapidly and it comes in various way just toexploit the victims. There are various type of malware attack. For instance, viruses, worms, spyware,rootkits, Trojan horse and botnet are considered as noteworthy threat for the computer network. Somepeople giving full confidence on the security of data transmission to the network. However, other can accessthe personal information without them realizing it. The objective of this paper is to detect malware attackusing honeypot Dionaea. Malicious file launched was detected by the honeypot and the file was analyzedby using the sandbox tool, Virus Total. This paper found that honeypot Dionaea is helpful in detectingvarious types of malware attack.