paralax/awesome-honeypots

A script to visualize statistics from honeyd

• Honeyd-Viz

• Honeydsum.pl

Central management tool

• PHARM - Manage, report, and analyze your distributed Nepenthes instances.

• Honeypot research papersstars15 - PDFs of research papers on honeypots.
• vEYE - Behavioral footprinting for self-propagating worm detection and profiling.

Behavioral analysis tool for win32

• Capture BAT

• CanaryTokensstars1k - Self-hostable honeytoken generator and reporting dashboard; demo version available at CanaryTokens.org.
• Honeybitsstars239 - Simple tool designed to enhance the effectiveness of your traps by spreading breadcrumbs and honeytokens across your production servers and workstations to lure the attacker toward your honeypots.
• Honeyλ (HoneyLambda)stars481 - Simple, serverless application designed to create and monitor URL honeytokens, on top of AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway.
• dceptstars479 - Tool for deploying and detecting use of Active Directory honeytokens.
• honeykustars55 - Heroku-based web honeypot that can be used to create and monitor fake HTTP endpoints (i.e. honeytokens).

Botnet C2 tools

• Halestars166 - Botnet command and control monitor.
• dnsMole - Analyses DNS traffic and potentionaly detect botnet command and control server activity, along with infected hosts.

VM monitoring and tools

• Antivmdetectstars622 - Script to create templates to use with VirtualBox to make VM detection harder.
• VMCloakstars399 - Automated Virtual Machine Generation and Cloaking for Cuckoo Sandbox.
• vmitools - C library with Python bindings that makes it easy to monitor the low-level details of a running virtual machine.

Lookup service for AS-numbers and prefixes

• CC2ASN - Simple lookup service for AS-numbers and prefixes belonging to any given country in the world.

Deployment

• Dionaea and EC2 in 20 Minutes - Tutorial on setting up Dionaea on an EC2 instance.
• Using a Raspberry Pi honeypot to contribute data to DShield/ISC - The Raspberry Pi based system will allow us to maintain one code base that will make it easier to collect rich logs beyond firewall logs.
• honeypotpistars30 - Script for turning a Raspberry Pi into a HoneyPot Pi.

SSH Honeypots

• Blacknetstars9 - Multi-head SSH honeypot system.
• Cowriestars4k - Cowrie SSH Honeypot (based on kippo).
• DShield dockerstars11 - Docker container running cowrie with DShield output enabled.
• HonSSHstars350 - Logs all SSH communications between a client and server.
• HUDINXstars2 - Tiny interaction SSH honeypot engineered in Python to log brute force attacks and, most importantly, the entire shell interaction performed by the attacker.
• Kippostars1.4k - Medium interaction SSH honeypot.
• Kippo_JunOSstars9 - Kippo configured to be a backdoored netscreen.
• Kojoney2stars35 - Low interaction SSH honeypot written in Python and based on Kojoney by Jose Antonio Coret.
• Kojoney - Python-based Low interaction honeypot that emulates an SSH server implemented with Twisted Conch.
• Longitudinal Analysis of SSH Cowrie Honeypot Logsstars9 - Python based command line tool to analyze cowrie logs over time.
• LongTail Log Analysis @ Marist College - Analyzed SSH honeypot logs.
• Malbaitstars4 - Simple TCP/UDP honeypot implemented in Perl.
• MockSSHstars116 - Mock an SSH server and define all commands it supports (Python, Twisted).
• cowrie2neostars3 - Parse cowrie honeypot logs into a neo4j database.
• go-sshoneystars27 - SSH Honeypot.
• go0rstars35 - Simple ssh honeypot in Golang.
• gohoneystars9 - SSH honeypot written in Go.
• hivedstars2 - Golang-based honeypot.
• hnypots-agent)stars36 - SSH Server in Go that logs username and password combinations.
• honeypot.gostars25 - SSH Honeypot written in Go.
• honeysshstars11 - Credential dumping SSH honeypot with statistics.
• hornetstars21 - Medium interaction SSH honeypot that supports multiple virtual hosts.
• ssh-auth-loggerstars18 - Low/zero interaction SSH authentication logging honeypot.
• ssh-honeypotstars487 - Fake sshd that logs IP addresses, usernames, and passwords.
• ssh-honeypotstars22 - Modified version of the OpenSSH deamon that forwards commands to Cowrie where all commands are interpreted and returned.
• ssh-honeypotdstars8 - Low-interaction SSH honeypot written in C.
• sshForShitsstars39 - Framework for a high interaction SSH honeypot.
• sshesamestars1.2k - Fake SSH server that lets everyone in and logs their activity.
• sshhipotstars165 - High-interaction MitM SSH honeypot.
• sshlowpotstars11 - Yet another no-frills low-interaction SSH honeypot in Go.
• sshsyrupstars84 - Simple SSH Honeypot with features to capture terminal activity and upload to asciinema.org.
• twisted-honeypotsstars79 - SSH, FTP and Telnet honeypots based on Twisted.

Distributed Honeypots

• DemonHunterstars48 - Low interaction honeypot server.

A pcap analyzer

• Honeysnap

Network traffic redirector

• Honeywall

IOT Honeypot

• HoneyThingstars100 - TR-069 Honeypot.
• Kakostars21 - Honeypots for a number of well known and deployed embedded device vulnerabilities.

Dynamic code instrumentation toolkit

• Frida - Inject JavaScript to explore native apps on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android.

Front Ends

• DionaeaFRstars64 - Front Web to Dionaea low-interaction honeypot.
• Django-kippostars12 - Django App for kippo SSH Honeypot.
• Shockpot-Frontendstars2 - Full featured script to visualize statistics from a Shockpot honeypot.
• Tangostars249 - Honeypot Intelligence with Splunk.
• Wordpot-Frontendstars3 - Full featured script to visualize statistics from a Wordpot honeypot.
• honeyalarmg2stars3 - Simplified UI for showing honeypot alarms.
• honeypotDisplaystars2 - Flask website which displays data gathered from an SSH Honeypot.

• Acapulcostars11 - Automated Attack Community Graph Construction.
• Afterglow Cloudstars16
• Afterglow
• Glastopf Analyticsstars1 - Easy honeypot statistics.
• HoneyMaltstars15 - Maltego tranforms for mapping Honeypot systems.
• HoneyMapstars212 - Real-time websocket stream of GPS events on a fancy SVG world map.
• HoneyStats - Statistical view of the recorded activity on a Honeynet.
• HpfeedsHoneyGraphstars14 - Visualization app to visualize hpfeeds logs.
• IVREstars2.6k - Network recon framework, published by @cea-sec & @ANSSI-FR. Build your own, self-hosted and fully-controlled alternatives to Shodan / ZoomEye / Censys and GreyNoise, run your Passive DNS service, collect and analyse network intelligence from your sensors, and much more!
• Kippo statsstars20 - Mojolicious app to display statistics for your kippo SSH honeypot.
• Kippo-Graph - Full featured script to visualize statistics from a Kippo SSH honeypot.
• The Intelligent HoneyNetstars55 - Create actionable information from honeypots.
• ovizartstars47 - Visual analysis for network traffic.

Honeyd plugin

• Honeycomb

Honeyd viewer

• Honeyview

Honeyd to MySQL connector

• Honeyd2MySQL

Sandbox

• Argos - Emulator for capturing zero-day attacks.
• COMODO automated sandbox
• Cuckoo - Leading open source automated malware analysis system.
• Pylibemustars115 - Libemu Cython wrapper.
• RFISandbox - PHP 5.x script sandbox built on top of funcall.
• dorothy2stars199 - Malware/botnet analysis framework written in Ruby.
• imalsestars13 - Integrated MALware Simulator and Emulator.
• libemustars103 - Shellcode emulation library, useful for shellcode detection.

• Hybrid Analysis - Free malware analysis service powered by Payload Security that detects and analyzes unknown threats using a unique Hybrid Analysis technology.
• Joebox Cloud - Analyzes the behavior of malicious files including PEs, PDFs, DOCs, PPTs, XLSs, APKs, URLs and MachOs on Windows, Android and Mac OS X for suspicious activities.
• VirusTotal - Analyze suspicious files and URLs to detect types of malware, and automatically share them with the security community.
• malwr.com - Free malware analysis service and community.

Other/random

• Damn Simple Honeypot (DSHP)stars12 - Honeypot framework with pluggable handlers.
• Masscannedstars41 - Let's be scanned. A low-interaction honeypot focused on network scanners and bots. It integrates very well with IVRE to build a self-hosted alternative to GreyNoise.
• NOVAstars72 - Uses honeypots as detectors, looks like a complete system.
• OpenFlow Honeypot (OFPot)stars21 - Redirects traffic for unused IPs to a honeypot, built on POX.
• OpenCanarystars1.5k - Modular and decentralised honeypot daemon that runs several canary versions of services that alerts when a service is (ab)used.
• ciscoasa_honeypotstars49 A low interaction honeypot for the Cisco ASA component capable of detecting CVE-2018-0101, a DoS and remote code execution vulnerability.
• miniprintstars187 - A medium interaction printer honeypot.

IPv6 attack detection tool

• ipv6-attack-detectorstars36 - Google Summer of Code 2012 project, supported by The Honeynet Project organization.

Tool to convert website to server honeypots

• HIHAT - Transform arbitrary PHP applications into web-based high-interaction Honeypots.

Malware collector

• Kippo-Malware - Python script that will download all malicious files stored as URLs in a Kippo SSH honeypot database.

Distributed sensor deployment

• Community Honey Network - CHN aims to make deployments honeypots and honeypot management tools easy and flexible. The default deployment method uses Docker Compose and Docker to deploy with a few simple commands.
• Modern Honey Networkstars2.3k - Multi-snort and honeypot sensor management, uses a network of VMs, small footprint SNORT installations, stealthy dionaeas, and a centralized server for management.

Network Analysis Tool

• Tracexploit - Replay network packets.

Log anonymizer

• LogAnon - Log anonymization library that helps having anonymous logs consistent between logs and network captures.

Low interaction honeypot (router back door)

• Honeypot-32764stars15 - Honeypot for router backdoor (TCP 32764).
• WAPotstars10 - Honeypot that can be used to observe traffic directed at home routers.

honeynet farm traffic redirector

• Honeymole - Deploy multiple sensors that redirect traffic to a centralized collection of honeypots.

HTTPS Proxy

• mitmproxy - Allows traffic flows to be intercepted, inspected, modified, and replayed.

System instrumentation

• Sysdig - Open source, system-level exploration allows one to capture system state and activity from a running GNU/Linux instance, then save, filter, and analyze the results.
• Fibratusstars1.6k - Tool for exploration and tracing of the Windows kernel.

Honeypot for USB-spreading malware

• Ghost-usbstars82 - Honeypot for malware that propagates via USB storage devices.

Data Collection

• Kippo2MySQL - Extracts some very basic stats from Kippo’s text-based log files and inserts them in a MySQL database.
• Kippo2ElasticSearch - Python script to transfer data from a Kippo SSH honeypot MySQL database to an ElasticSearch instance (server or cluster).

Passive network audit framework parser

• Passive Network Audit Framework (pnaf)stars31 - Framework that combines multiple passive and automated analysis techniques in order to provide a security assessment of network platforms.

Binary debugger

• Hexgolems - Pint Debugger Backendstars30 - Debugger backend and LUA wrapper for PIN.
• Hexgolems - Schem Debugger Frontendstars141 - Debugger frontend.

Mobile Analysis Tool

• Androguardstars4k - Reverse engineering, Malware and goodware analysis of Android applications and more.
• APKinspectorstars766 - Powerful GUI tool for analysts to analyze the Android applications.

Low interaction honeypot

• Honeyperl - Honeypot software based in Perl with plugins developed for many functions like : wingates, telnet, squid, smtp, etc.
• T-Potstars3.9k - All in one honeypot appliance from telecom provider T-Mobile

Honeynet data fusion

• HFlow2 - Data coalesing tool for honeynet/network analysis.

Server

• Amun - Vulnerability emulation honeypot.
• Artillerystars315 - Open-source blue team tool designed to protect Linux and Windows operating systems through multiple methods.
• Bait and Switch - Redirects all hostile traffic to a honeypot that is partially mirroring your production system.
• Bifroztstars4 - Automatic deploy bifrozt with ansible.
• Conpot - Low interactive server side Industrial Control Systems honeypot.
• Heraldingstars330 - Credentials catching honeypot.
• HoneyWRTstars18 - Low interaction Python honeypot designed to mimic services or ports that might get targeted by attackers.
• Honeydstars8 - See honeyd tools.
• Honeysink - Open source network sinkhole that provides a mechanism for detection and prevention of malicious traffic on a given network.
• Hontelstars153 - Telnet Honeypot.
• KFSensor - Windows based honeypot Intrusion Detection System (IDS).
• LaBrea - Takes over unused IP addresses, and creates virtual servers that are attractive to worms, hackers, and other denizens of the Internet.
• MTPotstars99 - Open Source Telnet Honeypot, focused on Mirai malware.
• SIRENstars10 - Semi-Intelligent HoneyPot Network - HoneyNet Intelligent Virtual Environment.
• TelnetHoneystars0 - Simple telnet honeypot.
• UDPot Honeypotstars41 - Simple UDP/DNS honeypot scripts.
• Yet Another Fake Honeypot (YAFH)stars7 - Simple honeypot written in Go.
• arctic-swallowstars1 - Low interaction honeypot.
• faprostars1.3k - Fake Protocol Server.
• gluttonstars189 - All eating honeypot.
• go-HoneyPotstars40 - Honeypot server written in Go.
• go-emulatorsstars8 - Honeypot Golang emulators.
• honeymailstars17 - SMTP honeypot written in Golang.
• honeytrapstars88 - Low-interaction honeypot and network security tool written to catch attacks against TCP and UDP services.
• imap-honeystars18 - IMAP honeypot written in Golang.
• mwcollectd - Versatile malware collection daemon, uniting the best features of nepenthes and honeytrap.
• potdstars28 - Highly scalable low- to medium-interaction SSH/TCP honeypot designed for OpenWrt/IoT devices leveraging several Linux kernel features, such as namespaces, seccomp and thread capabilities.
• portlurkerstars16 - Port listener in Rust with protocol guessing and safe string display.
• slipm-honeypotstars15 - Simple low-interaction port monitoring honeypot.
• telnet-iot-honeypotstars279 - Python telnet honeypot for catching botnet binaries.
• telnetloggerstars233 - Telnet honeypot designed to track the Mirai botnet.
• vnclowpotstars19 - Low interaction VNC honeypot.

IDS signature generation

• Honeycomb - Automated signature creation using honeypots.

Data Collection / Data Sharing

• HPfriends - Honeypot data-sharing platform.
  • hpfriends - real-time social data-sharing - Presentation about HPFriends feed system
• HPFeedsstars200 - Lightweight authenticated publish-subscribe protocol.

Network connection analyzer

• Impost - Network security auditing tool designed to analyze the forensics behind compromised and/or vulnerable daemons.

Honeypot deployment

• Modern Honeynet Network - Streamlines deployment and management of secure honeypots.

Honeypot extensions to Wireshark

• Wireshark Extensions - Apply Snort IDS rules and signatures against packet capture files using Wireshark.

Client

• CWSandbox / GFI Sandbox
• Capture-HPC-Linux
• Capture-HPC-NGstars12
• Capture-HPC - High interaction client honeypot (also called honeyclient).
• HoneyBOT
• HoneyC
• HoneySpider Networkstars28 - Highly-scalable system integrating multiple client honeypots to detect malicious websites.
• HoneyWeb - Web interface created to manage and remotely share Honeyclients resources.
• Jsunpack-nstars147
• MonkeySpider
• PhoneyCstars26 - Python honeyclient (later replaced by Thug).
• Pwnypot - High Interaction Client Honeypot.
• Rumal - Thug's Rumāl: a Thug's dress and weapon.
• Shelia - Client-side honeypot for attack detection.
• Thug - Python-based low-interaction honeyclient.
• Thug Distributed Task Queuing
• Trigona
• URLQuery
• YALIH (Yet Another Low Interaction Honeyclient)stars66 - Low-interaction client honeypot designed to detect malicious websites through signature, anomaly, and pattern matching techniques.

Honeypot

• Deception Toolkit
• IMHoneypotstars12

PDF document inspector

• peepdfstars834 - Powerful Python tool to analyze PDF documents.

Hybrid low/high interaction honeypot

• HoneyBrid

Distributed sensor project

• DShield Web Honeypot Project

Honeypot Distribution with mixed content

• HoneyDrive

Honeypot sensor

• Honeeepi - Honeypot sensor on a Raspberry Pi based on a customized Raspbian OS.

File carving

• TestDisk & PhotoRec

Live CD

• DAVIX - The DAVIX Live CD.

Spamtrap

• Mail::SMTP::Honeypot - Perl module that appears to provide the functionality of a standard SMTP server.
• Mailoneystars233 - SMTP honeypot, Open Relay, Cred Harvester written in python.
• SendMeSpamIDS.pystars14 - Simple SMTP fetch all IDS and analyzer.
• Shivastars127 - Spam Honeypot with Intelligent Virtual Analyzer.
  • Shiva The Spam Honeypot Tips And Tricks For Getting It Up And Running
• SpamHATstars24 - Spam Honeypot Tool.
• Spamhole
• honeypotstars2 - The Project Honey Pot un-official PHP SDK.
• spamd

Commercial honeynet

• Cymmetria Mazerunner - Leads attackers away from real targets and creates a footprint of the attack.

Server (Bluetooth)

• Bluepotstars174

Dynamic analysis of Android apps

• Droidbox

Dockerized Low Interaction packaging

• Docker honeynetstars23 - Several Honeynet tools set up for Docker containers.
• Dockerized Thug - Dockerized Thugstars876 to analyze malicious web content.
• Dockerpotstars147 - Docker based honeypot.
• Manukastars23 - Docker based honeypot (Dionaea and Kippo).
• honey_portsstars3 - Very simple but effective docker deployed honeypot to detect port scanning in your environment.
• mhn-core-dockerstars30 - Core elements of the Modern Honey Network implemented in Docker.

Network analysis

• Quechua

SIP Server

• Artemnesia VoIP

ICS/SCADA honeypots

• Conpotstars1k - ICS/SCADA honeypot.
• GasPotstars107 - Veeder Root Gaurdian AST, common in the oil and gas industry.
• SCADA honeynet - Building Honeypots for Industrial Networks.
• gridpotstars43 - Open source tools for realistic-behaving electric grid honeynets.
• scada-honeynet - Mimics many of the services from a popular PLC and better helps SCADA researchers understand potential risks of exposed control system devices.

Database Honeypots

• Delilahstars14 - Elasticsearch Honeypot written in Python (originally from Novetta).
• ESPotstars23 - Elasticsearch honeypot written in NodeJS, to capture every attempts to exploit CVE-2014-3120.
• Elastic honeystars171 - Simple Elasticsearch Honeypot.
• MongoDB-HoneyProxystars80 - MongoDB honeypot proxy.
• NoSQLpotstars102 - Honeypot framework built on a NoSQL-style database.
• mysql-honeypotdstars21 - Low interaction MySQL honeypot written in C.
• MysqlPotstars23 - MySQL honeypot, still very early stage.
• pghoneystars13 - Low-interaction Postgres Honeypot.
• sticky_elephantstars6 - Medium interaction postgresql honeypot.

Web honeypots

• Express honeypotstars1 - RFI & LFI honeypot using nodeJS and express.
• EoHoneypotBundlestars32 - Honeypot type for Symfony2 forms.
• Glastopfstars474 - Web Application Honeypot.
• Google Hack Honeypot - Designed to provide reconnaissance against attackers that use search engines as a hacking tool against your resources.
• HellPotstars146 - Honeypot that tries to crash the bots and clients that visit it's location.
• Laravel Application Honeypotstars420 - Simple spam prevention package for Laravel applications.
• Nodepotstars39 - NodeJS web application honeypot.
• PasitheaHoneypotstars0 - RestAPI honeypot.
• Servletpotstars12 - Web application Honeypot.
• Shadow Daemon - Modular Web Application Firewall / High-Interaction Honeypot for PHP, Perl, and Python apps.
• StrutsHoneypotstars70 - Struts Apache 2 based honeypot as well as a detection module for Apache 2 servers.
• WebTrapstars45 - Designed to create deceptive webpages to deceive and redirect attackers away from real websites.
• basic-auth-pot (bap)stars35 - HTTP Basic Authentication honeypot.
• bwpotstars24 - Breakable Web applications honeyPot.
• django-admin-honeypotstars891 - Fake Django admin login screen to notify admins of attempted unauthorized access.
• drupostars55 - Drupal Honeypot.
• honeyhttpdstars23 - Python-based web server honeypot builder.
• honeyupstars18 - An uploader honeypot designed to look like poor website security.
• owa-honeypotstars11 - A basic flask based Outlook Web Honey pot.
• phpmyadmin_honeypotstars64 - Simple and effective phpMyAdmin honeypot.
• shockpotstars56 - WebApp Honeypot for detecting Shell Shock exploit attempts.
• smart-honeypotstars17 - PHP Script demonstrating a smart honey pot.
• Snare/Tanner - successors to Glastopf
  • Snarestars375 - Super Next generation Advanced Reactive honeypot.
  • Tannerstars172 - Evaluating SNARE events.
• stack-honeypotstars23 - Inserts a trap for spam bots into responses.
• tomcat-manager-honeypotstars7 - Honeypot that mimics Tomcat manager endpoints. Logs requests and saves attacker's WAR file for later study
• WordPress honeypots
  • HonnyPotterstars27 - WordPress login honeypot for collection and analysis of failed login attempts.
  • HoneyPressstars1 - Python based WordPress honeypot in a Docker container.
  • wp-smart-honeypotstars26 - WordPress plugin to reduce comment spam with a smarter honeypot.
  • wordpotstars168 - WordPress Honeypot.

Service Honeypots

• ADBHoneystars140 - Low interaction honeypot that simulates an Android device running Android Debug Bridge (ADB) server process.
• AMTHoneypotstars14 - Honeypot for Intel's AMT Firmware Vulnerability CVE-2017-5689.
• DolosHoneypotstars0 - SDN (software defined networking) honeypot.
• Ensnarestars67 - Easy to deploy Ruby honeypot.
• HoneyPystars426 - Low interaction honeypot.
• Honeygrovestars17 - Multi-purpose modular honeypot based on Twisted.
• Honeyportstars37 - Simple honeyport written in Bash and Python.
• Honeyprintstars16 - Printer honeypot.
• Lyrebird - Modern high-interaction honeypot framework.
• MICROS honeypotstars12 - Low interaction honeypot to detect CVE-2018-2636 in the Oracle Hospitality Simphony component of Oracle Hospitality Applications (MICROS).
• RDPystars1.5k - Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) honeypot implemented in Python.
• SMB Honeypotstars42 - High interaction SMB service honeypot capable of capturing wannacry-like Malware.
• Tom's Honeypotstars19 - Low interaction Python honeypot.
• WebLogic honeypotstars28 - Low interaction honeypot to detect CVE-2017-10271 in the Oracle WebLogic Server component of Oracle Fusion Middleware.
• WhiteFace Honeypotstars3 - Twisted based honeypot for WhiteFace.
• dhpstars20 - Simple Docker Honeypot server emulating small snippets of the Docker HTTP API.
• honeycomb_pluginsstars25 - Plugin repository for Honeycomb, the honeypot framework by Cymmetria.
• honeyntpstars51 - NTP logger/honeypot.
• honeypot-camerastars50 - Observation camera honeypot.
• honeypot-ftpstars23 - FTP Honeypot.
• honeytrapstars1.1k - Advanced Honeypot framework written in Go that can be connected with other honeypot software.
• pyrdpstars783 - RDP man-in-the-middle and library for Python 3 with the ability to watch connections live or after the fact.
• trojestars46 - Honeypot that runs each connection with the service within a separate LXC container.

Anti-honeypot stuff

• kippo_detectstars53 - Offensive component that detects the presence of the kippo honeypot.