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Awesome Honeypots

Awesome Honeypots

A curated list of awesome honeypots, tools, components and much more. The list is divided into categories such as web, services, and others, focusing on open source projects.

There is no pre-established order of items in each category, the order is for contribution. If you want to contribute, please read the guide.

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Sections

Honeypots

  • Database Honeypots

    • Delilah - An Elasticsearch Honeypot written in Python.
    • ESPot - An Elasticsearch honeypot written in NodeJS, to capture every attempts to exploit CVE-2014-3120.
    • Elastic honey - A Simple Elasticsearch Honeypot.
    • HoneyMysql - A simple Mysql honeypot project.
    • MongoDB-HoneyProxy - A MongoDB honeypot proxy.
    • NoSQLpot - The NoSQL Honeypot Framework.
    • mysql-honeypotd - Low interaction MySQL honeypot written in C.
    • MysqlPot - A mysql honeypot, still very very early stage.
    • pghoney - Low-interaction Postgres Honeypot.
    • sticky_elephant - medium interaction postgresql honeypot.
  • Web honeypots

    • Bukkit Honeypot Honeypot - A honeypot plugin for Bukkit.
    • EoHoneypotBundle - Honeypot type for Symfony2 forms.
    • Glastopf - Web Application Honeypot.
    • Google Hack Honeypot - designed to provide reconnaissance against attackers that use search engines as a hacking tool against your resources.
    • Laravel Application Honeypot - Honeypot - Simple spam prevention package for Laravel applications.
    • Nodepot - A nodejs web application honeypot.
    • Servletpot - Web application Honeypot.
    • Shadow Daemon - A modular Web Application Firewall / High-Interaction Honeypot for PHP, Perl & Python apps.
    • StrutsHoneypot - Struts Apache 2 based honeypot as well as a detection module for Apache 2 servers
    • WebTrap - Designed to create deceptive webpages to deceive and redirect attackers away from real websites.
    • basic-auth-pot bap - http Basic Authentication honeyPot.
    • django-admin-honeypot - A fake Django admin login screen to notify admins of attempted unauthorized access.
    • honeyhttpd - a Python-based web server honeypot builder.
    • phpmyadmin_honeypot - - A simple and effective phpMyAdmin honeypot.
    • shockpot - WebApp Honeypot for detecting Shell Shock exploit attempts.
    • smart-honeypot - PHP Script demonstrating a smart honey pot.
    • Snare/Tanner - successors to Glastopf
      • Snare - Super Next generation Advanced Reactive honEypot
      • Tanner - Evaluating SNARE events
    • stack-honeypot - Inserts a trap for spam bots into responses.
    • WordPress honeypots
      • HonnyPotter - A WordPress login honeypot for collection and analysis of failed login attempts.
      • HoneyPress - python based WordPress honeypot in a docker container.
      • wp-smart-honeypot - WordPress plugin to reduce comment spam with a smarter honeypot.
      • wordpot - A WordPress Honeypot.
  • Service Honeypots

    • AMTHoneypot - Honeypot for Intel's AMT Firmware Vulnerability CVE-2017-5689.
    • Ensnare - Easy to deploy Ruby honeypot.
    • HoneyPy - A low interaction honeypot.
    • Honeygrove - A multi-purpose modular honeypot based on Twisted.
    • Honeyport - A simple honeyport written in Bash and Python.
    • Honeyprint - Printer honeypot.
    • Lyrebird - A modern high-interaction honeypot framework.
    • MICROS honeypot - low interaction honeypot to detect CVE-2018-2636 in the Oracle Hospitality Simphony component of Oracle Hospitality Applications (MICROS).
    • RDPy - A Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) honeypot in python.
    • SMB Honeypot - High interaction SMB service Honeypot capable of capturing wannacry like Malware.
    • Tom's Honeypot - Low interaction Python honeypot.
    • WebLogic honeypot - low interaction honeypot to detect CVE-2017-10271 in the Oracle WebLogic Server component of Oracle Fusion Middleware.
    • WhiteFace Honeypot - Twisted based HoneyPot for WhiteFace whiteface.csirtgadgets.com
    • honeycomb_plugins - The plugin repository for Honeycomb, the honeypot framework by Cymmetria.
    • honeyntp - NTP logger/honeypot.
    • honeypot-camera - observation camera honeypot.
    • honeytrap - Advanced Honeypot framework written in Go. Can be connected up with other Honeypot software.
    • troje - a honeypot built around lxc containers. It will run each connection with the service within a seperate lxc container.
  • Distributed Honeypots

  • Anti-honeypot stuff

    • kippo_detect - This is not a honeypot, but it detects kippo. (This guy has lots of more interesting stuff)
  • ICS/SCADA honeypots

    • Conpot - ICS/SCADA honeypot.
    • GasPot - Veeder Root Gaurdian AST, common in the oil and gas industry.
    • SCADA honeynet - Building Honeypots for Industrial Networks.
    • gridpot - 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.
  • Other/random

    • DSHP - Damn Simple HoneyPot with pluggable handlers.
    • NOVA uses honeypots as detectors, looks like a complete system.
    • OFPot - OpenFlow Honeypot, redirects traffic for unused IPs to a honeypot. Built on POX.
    • Open Canary - A low interaction honeypot intended to be run on internal networks.
    • OpenCanary - Modular and decentralised honeypot.
  • Botnet C2 tools

    • Hale - Botnet command & control monitor.
    • dnsMole - analyse dns traffic, and to potentionaly detect botnet C&C server and infected hosts.
  • IPv6 attack detection tool

    • ipv6-attack-detector - Google Summer of Code 2012 project, supported by The Honeynet Project organization.
  • Dynamic code instrumentation toolkit

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

    • ADHD - Active Defense Harbinger Distribution (ADHD) is a Linux distro based on Ubuntu LTS. It comes with many tools aimed at active defense preinstalled and configured.
    • Modern Honey Network - Multi-snort and honeypot sensor management, uses a network of VMs, small footprint SNORT installations, stealthy dionaeas, and a centralized server for management.
    • Smarthoneypot - custom honeypot intelligence system that is simple to deploy and easy to manage.
  • Network Analysis Tool

  • Log anonymizer

    • LogAnon - log anonymization library that helps having anonymous logs consistent between logs and network captures.
  • Low interaction honeypot (router back door)

  • honeynet farm traffic redirector

    • Honeymole - eploy 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: capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze.
    • Fibratus - tool for exploration and tracing of the Windows kernel.
  • Honeypot for USB-spreading malware

    • Ghost-usb - honeypot for malware that propagates via USB storage devices.
    • Honeystick - low interaction honeypot on USB stick
  • Data Collection

    • Kippo2MySQL - extracts some very basic stats from Kippos text-based log files (a mess to analyze!) 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

    • pnaf - Passive Network Audit Framework.
  • VM monitoring and tools

    • Antivmdetect - Script to create templates to use with VirtualBox to make vm detection harder.
    • VMCloak - 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.
  • Binary debugger

  • Mobile Analysis Tool

    • Androguard - Reverse engineering, Malware and goodware analysis of Android applications ... and more.
    • APKinspector - APKinspector is a 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.
  • Honeynet data fusion

    • HFlow2 - data coalesing tool for honeynet/network analysis.
  • Server

    • Amun - vulnerability emulation honeypot.
    • Artillery - 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.
    • Bifrozt - Automatic deploy bifrozt with ansible.
    • Conpot - ow interactive server side Industrial Control Systems honeypot.
    • Heralding - A credentials catching honeypot.
    • HoneyWRT - low interaction Python honeypot designed to mimic services or ports that might get targeted by attackers.
    • Honeyd Also see more honeyd tools.
    • Honeysink - open source network sinkhole that provides a mechanism for detection and prevention of malicious traffic on a given network.
    • Hontel - 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.
    • MTPot - Open Source Telnet Honeypot, focused on Mirai malware.
    • SIREN - Semi-Intelligent HoneyPot Network - HoneyNet Intelligent Virtual Environment.
    • TelnetHoney - A simple telnet honeypot.
    • UDPot Honeypot - Simple UDP / DNS honeypot scripts.
    • YAFH - Yet Another Fake Honeypot written in Go
    • arctic-swallow - a low interaction honeypot.
    • glutton - All eating honeypot.
    • go-HoneyPot - A honeypot server written in Go
    • go-emulators - honeypot go lang emulators
    • honeymail - SMTP honeypot written in Golang
    • honeytrap - a low-interaction honeypot and network security tool written to catch attacks against TCP and UDP services.
    • imap-honey - IMAP honeypot written in Golang
    • mwcollectd - a versatile malware collection daemon, uniting the best features of nepenthes and honeytrap.
    • potd - A high scalable low to medium interactive SSH/TCP honeypot designed for OpenWrt/IoT devices using Linux Namespaces, Seccomp and Capabilities.
    • portlurker - Port listener / honeypot in Rust with protocol guessing and safe string display.
    • slipm-honeypot - A simple low-interaction port monitoring honeypot.
    • telnetlogger - A Telnet honeypot designed to track the Mirai botnet.
    • vnclowpot - A low interaction VNC honeypot.
  • IDS signature generation

    • Honeycomb - Automated signature creation using honeypots.
  • Lookup service for AS-numbers and prefixes

    • CC2ASN - A simple lookup service for AS-numbers and prefixes belonging to any given country in the world.
  • Data Collection / Data Sharing

  • central management tool

    • PHARM - Manage , Report, Analyze your distributed Nepenthes instances.
  • Network connection analyzer

    • Impost - a network security auditing tool designed to analyze the forensics behind compromised and/or vulnerable daemons.
  • Honeypot deployment

  • Honeypot extensions to Wireshark

  • Client

  • Honeypot

  • PDF document inspector

    • peepdf - Powerful Python tool to analyze PDF documents
  • Hybrid low/high interaction honeypot

  • SSH Honeypots

    • Blacknet - Multi-head SSH honeypot system.
    • Cowrie - Cowrie SSH Honeypot (based on kippo)
    • DShield docker - Docker container running cowrie with DShield output enabled.
    • HonSSH - HonSSH is designed to log all SSH communications between a client and server.
    • HUDINX - tiny interaction SSH honeypot engineered in Python to log brute force attacks and, most importantly, the entire shell interaction performed by the attacker.
    • Kippo - Medium interaction SSH honeypot
    • Kippo_JunOS - Kippo configured to be a backdoored netscreen.
    • Kojoney2 - low interaction SSH honeypot written in Python. Based on Kojoney by Jose Antonio Coret
    • Kojoney - Kojoney is a low level interaction honeypot that emulates an SSH server. The daemon is written in Python using the Twisted Conch libraries.
    • LongTail Log Analysis @ Marist College - analyzed SSH honeypot logs
    • MockSSH - Mock an SSH server and define all commands it supports (Python, Twisted)
    • cowrie2neo - Parse cowrie honeypot logs into a neo4j database.
    • go-sshoney - SSH Honeypot
    • go0r - A simple ssh honeypot in golang
    • gohoney - A SSH honeypot written in Go
    • hived - a honeypot
    • hnypots-agent) - A SSH Server in Go that logs username/password combos
    • honeypot.go - SSH Honeypot written in Go
    • honeyssh - A credential dumping SSH honeypot with statistics
    • hornet - Medium interaction SSH Honeypot that supports multiple virtual hosts
    • ssh-auth-logger - A low/zero interaction ssh authentication logging honeypot
    • ssh-honeypot - Fake sshd that logs ip addresses, usernames, and passwords.
    • ssh-honeypotd - A low-interaction SSH honeypot written in C.
    • sshForShits - framework for a high interaction SSH honeypot
    • sshesame - A fake SSH server that lets everyone in and logs their activity.
    • sshhipot - High-interaction MitM SSH honeypot
    • sshlowpot - Yet another no-frills low-interaction ssh honeypot in Go.
    • sshsyrup - A simple SSH Honeypot with features to capture terminal activity and upload to asciinema.org
  • Distributed sensor project

  • A pcap analyzer

  • Network traffic redirector

  • Honeypot Distribution with mixed content

  • Honeypot sensor

  • File carving

  • Sebek

    • Qebek - QEMU based Sebek. As Sebek, it is data capture tool for high interaction honeypot.
    • Sebek - Data capture.
    • xebek - Sebek on Xen.
  • Behavioral analysis tool for win32

  • Live CD

    • DAVIX - The DAVIX Live CD.
  • Spamtrap

  • 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

  • Network analysis

  • SIP Server

  • IOT Honeypot

    • HoneyThing - TR-069 Honeypot.
    • Kako - Honeypots for a number of well known and deployed embedded device vulnerabilities.
  • Honeytokens

    • CanaryTokens - Self-hostable honeytoken generator and reporting dashboard; demo version available at CanaryTokens.org.
    • Honeybits - 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) - Simple, serverless application designed to create and monitor URL honeytokens, on top of AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway.
    • dcept - Tool for deploying and detecting use of Active Directory honeytokens.

Honeyd Tools

Network and Artifact Analysis

  • Sandbox

    • Argos - Emulator for capturing zero-day attacks.
    • COMODO automated sandbox
    • Cuckoo - Leading open source automated malware analysis system.
    • Pylibemu - Libemu Cython wrapper.
    • RFISandbox - PHP 5.x script sandbox built on top of funcall.
    • dorothy2 - Malware/botnet analysis framework written in Ruby.
    • imalse - Integrated MALware Simulator and Emulator.
    • libemu - Shellcode emulation library, useful for shellcode detection.
  • Sandbox-as-a-Service

    • 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.
    • detux.org - Multiplatform Linux Sandbox.
    • malwr.com - Free malware analysis service and community.

Data Tools

  • Front Ends

    • DionaeaFR - Front Web to Dionaea low-interaction honeypot.
    • Django-kippo - Django App for kippo SSH Honeypot.
    • Shockpot-Frontend - Full featured script to visualize statistics from a Shockpot honeypot.
    • Tango - Honeypot Intelligence with Splunk.
    • Wordpot-Frontend - Full featured script to visualize statistics from a Wordpot honeypot.
    • honeyalarmg2 - Simplified UI for showing honeypot alarms.
    • honeypotDisplay - Flask website which displays data gathered from an SSH Honeypot.
  • Visualization

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