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Awesome Honeypots
★73813A 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.
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Related Lists
- awesome-pcaptools ★1051, useful in network traffic analysis.
- awesome-malware-analysis ★3040, with some overlap here for artifact analysis.
Honeypots
- Database Honeypots
- MongoDB-HoneyProxy ★52 - A MongoDB honeypot proxy.
- Elastic honey ★101 ⏳2Y - A Simple Elasticsearch Honeypot.
- mysql ★13 ⏳5Y - A mysql honeypot, still very very early stage.
- NoSQLpot ★86 - The NoSQL Honeypot Framework.
- ESPot ★10 ⏳3Y - An Elasticsearch honeypot written in NodeJS, to capture every attempts to exploit CVE-2014-3120.
- Delilah ★28 ⏳2Y - An Elasticsearch Honeypot written in Python.
- mysql-honeypotd ★3 - Low interaction MySQL honeypot written in C.
- Web honeypots
- Glastopf ★313 ⏳1Y - Web Application Honeypot.
- Snare/Tanner - successors to Glastopf
- Snare ★70 - Super Next generation Advanced Reactive honEypot
- Tanner ★41 - Evaluating SNARE events
- phpmyadmin_honeypot ★37 ⏳2Y - - A simple and effective phpMyAdmin honeypot.
- Nodepot ★20 ⏳2Y - A nodejs web application honeypot.
- basic-auth-pot ★10 ⏳3Y bap - http Basic Authentication honeyPot.
- Shadow Daemon - A modular Web Application Firewall / High-Interaction Honeypot for PHP, Perl & Python apps.
- Servletpot ★7 ⏳4Y - Web application Honeypot.
- Google Hack Honeypot - designed to provide reconnaissance against attackers that use search engines as a hacking tool against your resources.
- smart-honeypot ★11 ⏳3Y - PHP Script demonstrating a smart honey pot.
- Bukkit Honeypot ★6 ⏳6Y Honeypot - A honeypot plugin for Bukkit.
- Laravel Application Honeypot ★298 - Honeypot - Simple spam prevention package for Laravel applications.
- stack-honeypot ★17 ⏳3Y - Inserts a trap for spam bots into responses.
- EoHoneypotBundle ★22 ⏳1Y - Honeypot type for Symfony2 forms.
- shockpot ★40 ⏳2Y - WebApp Honeypot for detecting Shell Shock exploit attempts.
- django-admin-honeypot ★407 - A fake Django admin login screen to notify admins of attempted unauthorized access.
- WebTrap ★2 - Designed to create deceptive webpages to deceive and redirect attackers away from real websites.
- WordPress honeypots
- HonnyPotter ★19 ⏳2Y - A WordPress login honeypot for collection and analysis of failed login attempts.
- HoneyPress ★52 ⏳1Y - python based WordPress honeypot in a docker container.
- wp-smart-honeypot ★16 - WordPress plugin to reduce comment spam with a smarter honeypot.
- wordpot ★111 ⏳2Y - A WordPress Honeypot.
- Service Honeypots
- honeyntp ★36 ⏳3Y - NTP logger/honeypot.
- honeypot-camera ★32 ⏳2Y - observation camera honeypot.
- troje ★34 ⏳3Y - a honeypot built around lxc containers. It will run each connection with the service within a seperate lxc container.
- HoneyPy ★266 - A low interaction honeypot.
- Ensnare ★67 - Easy to deploy Ruby honeypot.
- RDPy ★717 - A Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) honeypot in python.
- Honeyprint ★8 ⏳1Y - Printer honeypot.
- Tom’s Honeypot ★9 ⏳2Y - Low interaction Python honeypot.
- Honeyport ★19 - A simple honeyport written in Bash and Python.
- AMTHoneypot ★5 - Honeypot for Intel’s AMT Firmware Vulnerability CVE-2017-5689.
- Lyrebird - A modern high-interaction honeypot framework.
- Distributed Honeypots
- DemonHunter ★13 - Low interaction Honepot Server.
- Anti-honeypot stuff
- kippo_detect ★38 ⏳3Y - This is not a honeypot, but it detects kippo. (This guy has lots of more interesting stuff)
- ICS/SCADA honeypots
- Conpot ★388 - ICS/SCADA honeypot.
- gridpot ★28 ⏳2Y - 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.
- SCADA honeynet - Building Honeypots for Industrial Networks.
- GasPot ★52 ⏳1Y - Veeder Root Gaurdian AST, common in the oil and gas industry.
- Other/random
- NOVA ★42 ⏳2Y uses honeypots as detectors, looks like a complete system.
- Open Canary - A low interaction honeypot intended to be run on internal networks.
- OFPot ★6 ⏳5Y - OpenFlow Honeypot, redirects traffic for unused IPs to a honeypot. Built on POX.
- OpenCanary ★273 - Modular and decentralised honeypot.
- DSHP ★2 ⏳1Y - Damn Simple HoneyPot with pluggable handlers.
- Botnet C2 tools
- IPv6 attack detection tool
- ipv6-attack-detector ★19 - 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
- Smarthoneypot - custom honeypot intelligence system that is simple to deploy and easy to manage.
- Modern Honey Network ★1327 - Multi-snort and honeypot sensor management, uses a network of VMs, small footprint SNORT installations, stealthy dionaeas, and a centralized server for management.
- 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.
- 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-32764 ★8 ⏳3Y - Honeypot for router backdoor (TCP 32764).
- 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 ★399 - tool for exploration and tracing of the Windows kernel.
- Honeypot for USB-spreading malware
- Ghost-usb ★45 ⏳2Y - 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 Kippo’s 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 ★13 - Passive Network Audit Framework.
- VM monitoring and tools
- vmscope - Monitoring of VM-based.
- vmitools - C library with Python bindings that makes it easy to monitor the low-level details of a running virtual machine.
- Antivmdetect ★218 - Script to create templates to use with VirtualBox to make vm detection harder.
- VMCloak ★212 - Automated Virtual Machine Generation and Cloaking for Cuckoo Sandbox.
- Binary debugger
- Hexgolems - Schem Debugger Frontend ★139 ⏳2Y - A debugger frontend.
- Hexgolems - Pint Debugger Backend ★28 ⏳4Y - A debugger backend and LUA wrapper for PIN.
- Mobile Analysis Tool
- APKinspector ★547 ⏳4Y - APKinspector is a powerful GUI tool for analysts to analyze the Android applications.
- Androguard ★1815 - Reverse engineering, Malware and goodware analysis of Android applications … and more.
- 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
- LaBrea - takes over unused IP addresses, and creates virtual servers that are attractive to worms, hackers, and other denizens of the Internet.
- Honeysink - open source network sinkhole that provides a mechanism for detection and prevention of malicious traffic on a given network.
- KFSensor - Windows based honeypot Intrusion Detection System (IDS).
- Honeyd ★1 ⏳2Y Also see more honeyd tools.
- UDPot Honeypot ★25 ⏳3Y - Simple UDP / DNS honeypot scripts.
- Conpot - ow interactive server side Industrial Control Systems honeypot.
- Bifrozt ★3 ⏳1Y - Automatic deploy bifrozt with ansible.
- Beeswarm - Honeypot deployment made easy.
- Bait and Switch - redirects all hostile traffic to a honeypot that is partially mirroring your production system.
- Artillery ★279 - open-source blue team tool designed to protect Linux and Windows operating systems through multiple methods.
- slipm-honeypot ★6 ⏳4Y - A simple low-interaction port monitoring honeypot.
- HoneyWRT ★12 ⏳2Y - low interaction Python honeypot designed to mimic services or ports that might get targeted by attackers.
- Amun - vulnerability emulation honeypot.
- TelnetHoney ★4 ⏳2Y - A simple telnet honeypot.
- Hontel ★81 - Telnet Honeypot.
- MTPot ★82 - Open Source Telnet Honeypot, focused on Mirai malware.
- Heralding ★135 - A credentials catching honeypot.
- vnclowpot ★8 - A low interaction VNC honeypot.
- SIREN ★4 - Semi-Intelligent HoneyPot Network - HoneyNet Intelligent Virtual Environment.
- telnetlogger ★168 - A Telnet honeypot designed to track the Mirai botnet.
- honeytrap ★63 - a low-interaction honeypot and network security tool written to catch attacks against TCP and UDP services.
- mwcollectd - a versatile malware collection daemon, uniting the best features of nepenthes and honeytrap.
- portlurker ★2 - Port listener / honeypot in Rust with protocol guessing and safe string display.
- arctic-swallow ★0 - a low interaction honeypot.
- glutton ★67 - All eating 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.
- Web interface (for Thug)
- Rumal - Thug’s Rumāl: a Thug’s dress & weapon.
- Data Collection / Data Sharing
- HPfriends - Honeypot data-sharing platform.
- hpfriends - real-time social data-sharing - Presentation about HPFriends feed system
- HPFeeds ★144 ⏳1Y - lightweight authenticated publish-subscribe protocol.
- HPfriends - Honeypot data-sharing platform.
- 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
- Modern Honeynet Network - makes deploying and managing secure honeypots extremely simple.
- Honeypot extensions to Wireshark
- Whireshark Extensions - support applying Snort IDS rules and signatures against pcap files.
- Client
- Pwnypot ★28 ⏳4Y - High Interaction Client Honeypot
- MonkeySpider
- Capture-HPC-NG ★8 ⏳6Y
- URLQuery
- Trigona
- Thug
- Shelia
- PhoneyC ★19 ⏳2Y
- Jsunpack-n ★89 ⏳2Y
- HoneyC
- HoneyBOT
- CWSandbox / GFI Sandbox
- Capture-HPC-Linux
- Capture-HPC - a high interaction client honeypot (also called honeyclient).
- YALIH (Yet Another Low Interaction Honeyclient) ★42 ⏳1Y - a low Interaction Client honeypot designed to detect malicious websites through signature, anomaly and pattern matching techniques
- Binary Management and Analysis Framework
- Honeypot
- PDF document inspector
- Distribution system
- HoneyClient Management
- Hybrid low/high interaction honeypot
- SSH Honeypots
- Kojoney
- Kojoney2 ★30 ⏳3Y - low interaction SSH honeypot written in Python. Based on Kojoney by Jose Antonio Coret
- Kippo ★998 ⏳1Y - Medium interaction SSH honeypot
- LongTail Log Analysis @ Marist College - analyzed SSH honeypot logs
- Cowrie ★1379 - Cowrie SSH Honeypot (based on kippo)
- sshlowpot ★5 - Yet another no-frills low-interaction ssh honeypot in Go.
- sshhipot ★114 - High-interaction MitM SSH honeypot
- DShield docker ★3 ⏳1Y - Docker container running cowrie with DShield output enabled.
- hornet ★18 ⏳1Y - Medium interaction SSH Honeypot that supports multiple virtual hosts
- ssh-honeypot ★133 - Fake sshd that logs ip addresses, usernames, and passwords.
- Kippo_JunOS ★10 ⏳2Y - Kippo configured to be a backdoored netscreen.
- ssh-honeypotd ★4 - A low-interaction SSH honeypot written in C.
- sshesame ★818 ⏳1Y - A fake SSH server that lets everyone in and logs their activity.
- sshsyrup ★0 - A simple SSH Honeypot with features to capture terminal activity and upload to asciinema.org
- Distributed sensor project
- A pcap analyzer
- Client Web crawler
- Network traffic redirector
- Honeypot Distribution with mixed content
- Honeypot sensor
- [Honeeepi] (https://redmine.honeynet.org/projects/honeeepi/wiki) - Honeeepi is a honeypot sensor on Raspberry Pi which based on customized Raspbian OS.
- File carving
- Sebek
- SSH proxy
- Behavioral analysis tool for win32
- Live CD
- Spamtrap
- Mailoney ★120 - SMTP honeypot, Open Relay, Cred Harvester written in python.
- Spamhole
- spamd
- Mail::SMTP::Honeypot - perl module that appears to provide the functionality of a standard SMTP server
- honeypot ★1 ⏳1Y - The Project Honey Pot un-official PHP SDK
- SpamHAT ★14 ⏳1Y - Spam Honeypot Tool
- SendMeSpamIDS.py ★10 Simple SMTP fetch all IDS and analyzer
- Shiva ★98 ⏳1Y - Spam Honeypot with Intelligent Virtual Analyzer
- Distributed spam tracking
- Commercial honeynet
- HONEYPOINT SECURITY SERVER - distributed honeypot, includes IT and SCADA emulators.
- Cymmetria Mazerunner - 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
- Manuka ★11 ⏳2Y - Docker based honeypot (Dionaea & Kippo).
- Dockerized Thug - A dockerized Thug ★621 to analyze malicious web content.
- Dockerpot ★106 ⏳2Y - A docker based honeypot.
- Docker honeynet ★12 ⏳3Y - Several Honeynet tools set up for Docker containers.
- mhn-core-docker ★10 - Core elements of the Modern Honey Network implemented in Docker.
- Network analysis
- SIP Server
- IOT Honeypot
- HoneyThing ★53 ⏳1Y - TR-069 Honeypot
- Honeytokens
- Honeyλ ★349 - honeyLambda ‘serverless trap’ is a simple, serverless application designed to create and monitor URL honeytokens, on top of AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway.
- Honeybits ★90 - A simple tool designed to enhance the effectiveness of your traps by spreading breadcrumbs & honeytokens across your production servers and workstations to lure the attacker toward your honeypots.
- CanaryTokens ★189 -
- dcept ★381 ⏳1Y - A tool for deploying and detecting use of Active Directory honeytokens.
Honeyd Tools
- Honeyd plugin
- Honeyd viewer
- Honeyd to MySQL connector
- A script to visualize statistics from honeyd
- Honeyd UI
- Honeyd configuration GUI - application used to configure the honeyd daemon and generate configuration files
- Honeyd stats
Network and Artifact Analysis
- Sandbox
- RFISandbox - a PHP 5.x script sandbox built on top of funcall
- dorothy2 ★174 ⏳3Y - A malware/botnet analysis framework written in Ruby
- COMODO automated sandbox
- Argos - An emulator for capturing zero-day attacks
- libemu ★30 ⏳1Y - Shellcode emulation library, useful for shellcode detection.
- Pylibemu ★92 ⏳1Y - A Libemu Cython wrapper.
- imalse ★5 ⏳4Y - Integrated MALware Simulator and Emulator.
- Cuckoo - he leading open source automated malware analysis system.
- Sandbox-as-a-Service
- malwr.com - free malware analysis service and community.
- detux.org - Multiplatform Linux Sandbox.
- linux.huntingmalware.com - Multiplatform Linux Sandbox based on Cuckoo v2.
- 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
- Hybrid Analysis - a free malware analysis service powered by Payload Security that detects and analyzes unknown threats using a unique Hybrid Analysis technology.
Data Tools
- Front Ends
- Tango ★200 - Honeypot Intelligence with Splunk.
- Django-kippo ★10 ⏳5Y - Django App for kippo SSH Honeypot.
- Wordpot-Frontend ★0 ⏳2Y - a full featured script to visualize statistics from a Wordpot honeypot.
- Shockpot-Frontend ★0 ⏳2Y - a full featured script to visualize statistics from a Shockpot honeypot.
- honeypotDisplay ★2 ⏳1Y - A flask website which displays data I’ve gathered with my SSH Honeypot.
- honeyalarmg2 ★3 - Simplified UI for showing honeypot alarms.
- DionaeaFR ★36 - Front Web to Dionaea low-interaction honeypot.
- Visualization
- Kippo-Graph - a full featured script to visualize statistics from a Kippo SSH honeypot.
- Kippo stats ★17 ⏳6Y - Mojolicious app to display statistics for your kippo SSH honeypot.
- HoneyStats - A statistical view of the recorded activity on a Honeynet.
- HoneyMap ★186 ⏳1Y - Real-time websocket stream of GPS events on a fancy SVG world map.
- HoneyMalt ★10 ⏳3Y - Maltego tranforms for mapping Honeypot systems.
- Glastopf Analytics ★0 ⏳2Y - easy honeypot statistics
- Afterglow Cloud ★14 ⏳4Y
- Afterglow
- ovizart ★44 ⏳4Y - visual analysis for network traffic.
- HpfeedsHoneyGraph ★9 ⏳4Y - a visualization app to visualize hpfeeds logs.
- Acapulco ★8 ⏳2Y - Automated Attack Community Graph Construction.
- Sebek Dataviz - Sebek data visualization.
- The Intelligent HoneyNet ★35 ⏳2Y - The Intelligent Honey Net Project attempts to create actionable information from honeypots.
Guides
- T-Pot: A Multi-Honeypot Platform
- Deployment
- Dionaea and EC2 in 20 Minutes - a tutorial on setting up Dionaea on an EC2 instance
- honeypotpi ★14 ⏳3Y - Script for turning a Raspberry Pi into a HoneyPot Pi
- 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.
- Research Paper
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vEYE - behavioral footprinting for self-propagating worm detection and profiling.
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This list is a copy of paralax/awesome-honeypots with ranks