One of the most common vectors for distributing malware nowadays is spamming blogs with comments pointing to malicious sites that host exploits, malware, rogue antiviruses or other types of scams.
In order to analyze the huge volume of spam comments that come in through our various Panda Blogs (PandaLabs, Panda Research, Panda Cloud Antivirus Blog, etc.) Iker from PandaLabs has developed a “blog comment spam honeypot†which is basically a modified Akismet plugin for WordPress. The honeypot basically posts everything that Akismet detects as spam into an XML which is then processed and all links are followed to detect malware, exploits, drive-by downloads, etc.
If you have a wordpress blog and would like to install the honeypot to send your trapped spam to PandaLabs for analysis, simply download and install the blog comment spam honeypot.
Thanks to Iker for all his work on spam research.
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[...] both in the English and the Spanish version. A good thing is that some time ago we installed the Blog Comment Spam Honeypot, so I don’t have to deal with all the spam. Anyway I use to check it, sometimes you never [...]
[...] both in the English and the Spanish version. A good thing is that some time ago we installed the Blog Comment Spam Honeypot, so I don’t have to deal with all the spam. Anyway I use to check it, sometimes you never [...]