Detecting and monitoring the botnet using honeypot

A “botnet” consists of a network of compromised computers controlled by an attacker. Here we present the design of peer-to-peer botnet with honeypot. Compared with current botnets, the proposed botnet is harder to be shut down, monitored, and hijacked. It provides robust connectivity, individualized encryption and control traffic dispersion, limited botnet exposure by each bot, and easy monitoring and recovery by its botmaster. The honeypot used here is designed in such a way that it doesn’t enable the attackers to track the data during the communication process.