Honeypots: Tracking Hackers

Overview of ManTrap

ManTrap is a high-interaction commercial honeypot created, maintained, and sold by Recourse Technologies.[1] ManTrap is unique in that it is designed to be not only attacked but also compromised.

Like the homemade jailed environment discussed in the previous chapter, ManTrap creates a highly controlled operating environment that an attacker can interact with. However, ManTrap goes a significant step further and creates a fully functional operating system containing virtual cages rather than a limited operating system. The cages are logically controlled environments from which the attacker is unable to exit and attack the host system. However, instead of creating an empty cage and filling it with certain functionality, as ...