Help needed with analysing traffic generating malware

[corvex]

Hi,

I am working on a University project that requires some network traffic analysis on traffic generating malware. I would like to know if someone could:

 1. Recommend some source of information or some guidelines that could help me to set up a safe environment for installing and testing the malware. I am thinking Vmware or VBox with a Linux host.
 2. Recommend chatty/noisy malware that generates a high enough volume of traffic, which could be used for malware traffic analysis. I would like to use Windows XP virtual machines as the infected clients.

Thanks,

Corvex

[binary]

may be this would give you a start - http://zeltser.com/malware-analysis-toolkit/ unless you have not come across this earlier 

[corvex]

may be this would give you a start - http://zeltser.com/malware-analysis-toolkit/ unless you have not come across this earlier 

This is exactly the type of stuff I need to get started, thanks.