paralax/awesome-honeypots
Jul 31st, 2018
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Central management tool
- PHARM - Manage, report, and analyze your distributed Nepenthes instances.
Jun 4th, 2018
Guides
- Honeypot research papersstars15 - PDFs of research papers on honeypots.
- vEYE - Behavioral footprinting for self-propagating worm detection and profiling.
Apr 6th, 2017
Honeypots
- 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).
Mar 30th, 2017
Honeypots
Botnet C2 tools
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.
Jan 16th, 2017
Honeypots
Lookup service for AS-numbers and prefixes
- CC2ASN - Simple lookup service for AS-numbers and prefixes belonging to any given country in the world.
Dec 1st, 2016
Guides
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.
Honeypots
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.
Nov 22nd, 2016
Honeypots
Distributed Honeypots
- DemonHunterstars48 - Low interaction honeypot server.
Sep 17th, 2015
Honeypots
Dynamic code instrumentation toolkit
- Frida - Inject JavaScript to explore native apps on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android.
Jun 19th, 2015
Data Tools
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 Tools
Honeyd plugin
Honeyd viewer
Honeyd to MySQL connector
Network and Artifact Analysis
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.
Jun 18th, 2015
Honeypots
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
Honeypot for USB-spreading malware
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
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
PDF document inspector
Hybrid low/high interaction honeypot
Distributed sensor project
Honeypot Distribution with mixed content
Honeypot sensor
- Honeeepi - Honeypot sensor on a Raspberry Pi based on a customized Raspbian OS.
File carving
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.
- 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)
Dynamic analysis of Android apps
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
SIP Server
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
- 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.