Summary

		Chapter 3 - Windows Honeypot Modeling Honeypots for Windows by Roger A. Grimes Apress 2005

So, what have you learned from this chapter? Most important, there are very common ports and services that should be advertised on any emulated Windows honeypot, like RPC (port 135) and NetBIOS (ports 137 through 139 and 445). If you don’t advertise them, the intruder might detect your honeypot as a decoy. On the other hand, you shouldn’t open ports that aren’t common on most Windows PCs. Doing so will only confuse the hacker. You also must be sure that your advertised ports and services match the Windows OS platform. Advertising IIS 6.0 on a Windows NT Server 4.0 machine is a mismatch.

We also took a look at some of the banner text messages that your honeypot will need to respond with in order to make the honeypot seem real. If you’re going to put up a server in a particular role, there are sets of ports that should be opened together to provide a realistic honeypot. Chapter 4 will discuss the details of installing a honeypot using a Microsoft Windows OS.