Awesome Honeypots
A curated list of awesome honeypots, plus related components and much more, divided into categories such as Web, services, and others, with a focus on free and 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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Honeypots
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Database Honeypots
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Delilah
- Elasticsearch Honeypot written in Python (originally from Novetta).
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ESPot
- Elasticsearch honeypot written in NodeJS, to capture every attempts to exploit CVE-2014-3120.
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ElasticPot - An Elasticsearch Honeypot.
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Elastic honey
- Simple Elasticsearch Honeypot.
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MongoDB-HoneyProxy
- MongoDB honeypot proxy.
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NoSQLpot
- Honeypot framework built on a NoSQL-style database.
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mysql-honeypotd
- Low interaction MySQL honeypot written in C.
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MysqlPot
- MySQL honeypot, still very early stage.
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pghoney
- Low-interaction Postgres Honeypot.
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sticky_elephant
- Medium interaction postgresql honeypot.
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RedisHoneyPot
- High Interaction Honeypot Solution for Redis protocol.
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Web honeypots
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Express honeypot
- RFI & LFI honeypot using nodeJS and express.
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EoHoneypotBundle
- Honeypot type for Symfony2 forms.
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Glastopf
- Web Application Honeypot.
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Google Hack Honeypot - Designed to provide reconnaissance against attackers that use search engines as a hacking tool against your resources.
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HellPot
- Honeypot that tries to crash the bots and clients that visit it’s location.
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Laravel Application Honeypot
- Simple spam prevention package for Laravel applications.
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Nodepot
- NodeJS web application honeypot.
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PasitheaHoneypot
- RestAPI honeypot.
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Servletpot
- Web application Honeypot.
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Shadow Daemon - Modular Web Application Firewall / High-Interaction Honeypot for PHP, Perl, and Python apps.
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StrutsHoneypot
- Struts Apache 2 based honeypot as well as a detection module for Apache 2 servers.
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WebTrap
- Designed to create deceptive webpages to deceive and redirect attackers away from real websites.
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basic-auth-pot (bap)
- HTTP Basic Authentication honeypot.
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bwpot
- Breakable Web applications honeyPot.
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django-admin-honeypot
- Fake Django admin login screen to notify admins of attempted unauthorized access.
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drupo
- Drupal Honeypot.
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galah
- an LLM-powered web honeypot using the OpenAI API.
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honeyhttpd
- Python-based web server honeypot builder.
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honeyup
- An uploader honeypot designed to look like poor website security.
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modpot
- Modpot is a modular web application honeypot framework and management application written in Golang and making use of gin framework.
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owa-honeypot
- A basic flask based Outlook Web Honey pot.
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phpmyadmin_honeypot
- Simple and effective phpMyAdmin honeypot.
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shockpot
- WebApp Honeypot for detecting Shell Shock exploit attempts.
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smart-honeypot
- PHP Script demonstrating a smart honey pot.
- Snare/Tanner - successors to Glastopf
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Snare
- Super Next generation Advanced Reactive honeypot.
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Tanner
- Evaluating SNARE events.
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stack-honeypot
- Inserts a trap for spam bots into responses.
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tomcat-manager-honeypot
- Honeypot that mimics Tomcat manager endpoints. Logs requests and saves attacker’s WAR file for later study.
- WordPress honeypots
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HonnyPotter
- WordPress login honeypot for collection and analysis of failed login attempts.
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HoneyPress
- Python based WordPress honeypot in a Docker container.
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wp-smart-honeypot
- WordPress plugin to reduce comment spam with a smarter honeypot.
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wordpot
- WordPress Honeypot.
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Python-Honeypot
- OWASP Honeypot, Automated Deception Framework.
- Service Honeypots
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ADBHoney
- Low interaction honeypot that simulates an Android device running Android Debug Bridge (ADB) server process.
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AMTHoneypot
- Honeypot for Intel’s AMT Firmware Vulnerability CVE-2017-5689.
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ddospot
- NTP, DNS, SSDP, Chargen and generic UDP-based amplification DDoS honeypot.
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dionaea
- Home of the dionaea honeypot.
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dhp
- Simple Docker Honeypot server emulating small snippets of the Docker HTTP API.
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DolosHoneypot
- SDN (software defined networking) honeypot.
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Ensnare
- Easy to deploy Ruby honeypot.
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Helix
- K8s API Honeypot with Active Defense Capabilities.
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honeycomb_plugins
- Plugin repository for Honeycomb, the honeypot framework by Cymmetria.
- [honeydb] (https://honeydb.io/downloads) - Multi-service honeypot that is easy to deploy and configure. Can be configured to send interaction data to to HoneyDB’s centralized collectors for access via REST API.
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honeyntp
- NTP logger/honeypot.
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honeypot-camera
- Observation camera honeypot.
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honeypot-ftp
- FTP Honeypot.
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honeypots
- 25 different honeypots in a single pypi package! (dns, ftp, httpproxy, http, https, imap, mysql, pop3, postgres, redis, smb, smtp, socks5, ssh, telnet, vnc, mssql, elastic, ldap, ntp, memcache, snmp, oracle, sip and irc).
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honeytrap
- Advanced Honeypot framework written in Go that can be connected with other honeypot software.
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HoneyPy
- Low interaction honeypot.
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Honeygrove
- Multi-purpose modular honeypot based on Twisted.
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Honeyport
- Simple honeyport written in Bash and Python.
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Honeyprint
- Printer honeypot.
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Lyrebird - Modern high-interaction honeypot framework.
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MICROS honeypot
- Low interaction honeypot to detect CVE-2018-2636 in the Oracle Hospitality Simphony component of Oracle Hospitality Applications (MICROS).
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node-ftp-honeypot
- FTP server honeypot in JS.
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pyrdp
- RDP man-in-the-middle and library for Python 3 with the ability to watch connections live or after the fact.
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rdppot
- RDP honeypot
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RDPy
- Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) honeypot implemented in Python.
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SMB Honeypot
- High interaction SMB service honeypot capable of capturing wannacry-like Malware.
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Tom’s Honeypot
- Low interaction Python honeypot.
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troje
- Honeypot that runs each connection with the service within a separate LXC container.
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WebLogic honeypot
- Low interaction honeypot to detect CVE-2017-10271 in the Oracle WebLogic Server component of Oracle Fusion Middleware.
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WhiteFace Honeypot
- Twisted based honeypot for WhiteFace.
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Distributed Honeypots
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Anti-honeypot stuff
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canarytokendetector
- Tool for detection and nullification of Thinkst CanaryTokens
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honeydet
- Signature based honeypot detector tool written in Golang
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kippo_detect
- Offensive component that detects the presence of the kippo honeypot.
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ICS/SCADA honeypots
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Conpot
- ICS/SCADA honeypot.
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GasPot
- Veeder Root Gaurdian AST, common in the oil and gas industry.
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SCADA honeynet - Building Honeypots for Industrial Networks.
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gridpot
- Open source tools for realistic-behaving electric grid honeynets.
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scada-honeynet - Mimics many of the services from a popular PLC and better helps SCADA researchers understand potential risks of exposed control system devices.
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Other/random
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CitrixHoneypot
- Detect and log CVE-2019-19781 scan and exploitation attempts.
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Damn Simple Honeypot (DSHP)
- Honeypot framework with pluggable handlers.
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dicompot
- DICOM Honeypot.
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IPP Honey - A honeypot for the Internet Printing Protocol.
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Log4Pot
- A honeypot for the Log4Shell vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228).
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Masscanned
- 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.
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medpot
- HL7 / FHIR honeypot.
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NOVA
- Uses honeypots as detectors, looks like a complete system.
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OpenFlow Honeypot (OFPot)
- Redirects traffic for unused IPs to a honeypot, built on POX.
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OpenCanary
- Modular and decentralised honeypot daemon that runs several canary versions of services that alerts when a service is (ab)used.
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ciscoasa_honeypot
A low interaction honeypot for the Cisco ASA component capable of detecting CVE-2018-0101, a DoS and remote code execution vulnerability.
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miniprint
- A medium interaction printer honeypot.
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Botnet C2 tools
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Hale
- Botnet command and control monitor.
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dnsMole - Analyses DNS traffic and potentionaly detect botnet command and control server activity, along with infected hosts.
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IPv6 attack detection tool
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ipv6-attack-detector
- Google Summer of Code 2012 project, supported by The Honeynet Project organization.
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Dynamic code instrumentation toolkit
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Frida - Inject JavaScript to explore native apps on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android.
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Tool to convert website to server honeypots
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HIHAT - Transform arbitrary PHP applications into web-based high-interaction Honeypots.
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Malware collector
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Kippo-Malware - Python script that will download all malicious files stored as URLs in a Kippo SSH honeypot database.
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Distributed sensor deployment
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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.
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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.
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Network Analysis Tool
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Log anonymizer
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LogAnon - Log anonymization library that helps having anonymous logs consistent between logs and network captures.
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Low interaction honeypot (router back door)
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Honeypot-32764
- Honeypot for router backdoor (TCP 32764).
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WAPot
- Honeypot that can be used to observe traffic directed at home routers.
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honeynet farm traffic redirector
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Honeymole - Deploy multiple sensors that redirect traffic to a centralized collection of honeypots.
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HTTPS Proxy
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mitmproxy - Allows traffic flows to be intercepted, inspected, modified, and replayed.
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System instrumentation
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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.
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Fibratus
- Tool for exploration and tracing of the Windows kernel.
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Honeypot for USB-spreading malware
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Ghost-usb
- Honeypot for malware that propagates via USB storage devices.
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Data Collection
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Kippo2MySQL - Extracts some very basic stats from Kippo’s text-based log files and inserts them in a MySQL database.
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Kippo2ElasticSearch - Python script to transfer data from a Kippo SSH honeypot MySQL database to an ElasticSearch instance (server or cluster).
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Passive network audit framework parser
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VM monitoring and tools
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Antivmdetect
- Script to create templates to use with VirtualBox to make VM detection harder.
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VMCloak
- Automated Virtual Machine Generation and Cloaking for Cuckoo Sandbox.
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vmitools - C library with Python bindings that makes it easy to monitor the low-level details of a running virtual machine.
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Binary debugger
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Mobile Analysis Tool
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Androguard
- Reverse engineering, Malware and goodware analysis of Android applications and more.
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APKinspector
- Powerful GUI tool for analysts to analyze the Android applications.
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Low interaction honeypot
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Honeyperl - Honeypot software based in Perl with plugins developed for many functions like : wingates, telnet, squid, smtp, etc.
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T-Pot
- All in one honeypot appliance from telecom provider T-Mobile
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beelzebub
- A secure honeypot framework, extremely easy to configure by yaml 🚀
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Honeynet data fusion
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HFlow2 - Data coalesing tool for honeynet/network analysis.
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Server
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Amun - Vulnerability emulation honeypot.
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Artillery
- Open-source blue team tool designed to protect Linux and Windows operating systems through multiple methods.
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Bait and Switch - Redirects all hostile traffic to a honeypot that is partially mirroring your production system.
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Bifrozt
- Automatic deploy bifrozt with ansible.
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Conpot - Low interactive server side Industrial Control Systems honeypot.
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Heralding
- Credentials catching honeypot.
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HoneyWRT
- Low interaction Python honeypot designed to mimic services or ports that might get targeted by attackers.
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Honeyd
- See honeyd tools.
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Honeysink - Open source network sinkhole that provides a mechanism for detection and prevention of malicious traffic on a given network.
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Hontel
- Telnet Honeypot.
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KFSensor - Windows based honeypot Intrusion Detection System (IDS).
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LaBrea - Takes over unused IP addresses, and creates virtual servers that are attractive to worms, hackers, and other denizens of the Internet.
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MTPot
- Open Source Telnet Honeypot, focused on Mirai malware.
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SIREN
- Semi-Intelligent HoneyPot Network - HoneyNet Intelligent Virtual Environment.
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TelnetHoney
- Simple telnet honeypot.
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UDPot Honeypot
- Simple UDP/DNS honeypot scripts.
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Yet Another Fake Honeypot (YAFH)
- Simple honeypot written in Go.
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arctic-swallow
- Low interaction honeypot.
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fapro
- Fake Protocol Server.
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glutton
- All eating honeypot.
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go-HoneyPot
- Honeypot server written in Go.
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go-emulators
- Honeypot Golang emulators.
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honeymail
- SMTP honeypot written in Golang.
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honeytrap
- Low-interaction honeypot and network security tool written to catch attacks against TCP and UDP services.
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imap-honey
- IMAP honeypot written in Golang.
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mwcollectd - Versatile malware collection daemon, uniting the best features of nepenthes and honeytrap.
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potd
- 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.
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portlurker
- Port listener in Rust with protocol guessing and safe string display.
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slipm-honeypot
- Simple low-interaction port monitoring honeypot.
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telnet-iot-honeypot
- Python telnet honeypot for catching botnet binaries.
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telnetlogger
- Telnet honeypot designed to track the Mirai botnet.
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vnclowpot
- Low interaction VNC honeypot.
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IDS signature generation
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Honeycomb - Automated signature creation using honeypots.
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Lookup service for AS-numbers and prefixes
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CC2ASN - Simple lookup service for AS-numbers and prefixes belonging to any given country in the world.
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Data Collection / Data Sharing
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HPfriends - Honeypot data-sharing platform.
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HPFeeds
- Lightweight authenticated publish-subscribe protocol.
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Central management tool
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PHARM - Manage, report, and analyze your distributed Nepenthes instances.
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Network connection analyzer
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Impost - Network security auditing tool designed to analyze the forensics behind compromised and/or vulnerable daemons.
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Honeypot deployment
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honeyfs
- Tool to create artificial file systems for medium/high interaction honeypots.
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Modern Honeynet Network - Streamlines deployment and management of secure honeypots.
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Honeypot extensions to Wireshark
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Wireshark Extensions - Apply Snort IDS rules and signatures against packet capture files using Wireshark.
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Client
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Honeypot
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PDF document inspector
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peepdf
- Powerful Python tool to analyze PDF documents.
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Hybrid low/high interaction honeypot
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SSH Honeypots
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Blacknet
- Multi-head SSH honeypot system.
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Cowrie
- Cowrie SSH Honeypot (based on kippo).
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DShield docker
- Docker container running cowrie with DShield output enabled.
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endlessh
- SSH tarpit that slowly sends an endless banner. (docker image)
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HonSSH
- Logs all SSH communications between a client and server.
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HUDINX
- Tiny interaction SSH honeypot engineered in Python to log brute force attacks and, most importantly, the entire shell interaction performed by the attacker.
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Kippo
- Medium interaction SSH honeypot.
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Kippo_JunOS
- Kippo configured to be a backdoored netscreen.
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Kojoney2
- Low interaction SSH honeypot written in Python and based on Kojoney by Jose Antonio Coret.
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Kojoney - Python-based Low interaction honeypot that emulates an SSH server implemented with Twisted Conch.
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Longitudinal Analysis of SSH Cowrie Honeypot Logs
- Python based command line tool to analyze cowrie logs over time.
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LongTail Log Analysis @ Marist College - Analyzed SSH honeypot logs.
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Malbait
- Simple TCP/UDP honeypot implemented in Perl.
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MockSSH
- Mock an SSH server and define all commands it supports (Python, Twisted).
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cowrie2neo
- Parse cowrie honeypot logs into a neo4j database.
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go-sshoney
- SSH Honeypot.
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go0r
- Simple ssh honeypot in Golang.
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gohoney
- SSH honeypot written in Go.
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hived
- Golang-based honeypot.
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hnypots-agent)
- SSH Server in Go that logs username and password combinations.
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honeypot.go
- SSH Honeypot written in Go.
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honeyssh
- Credential dumping SSH honeypot with statistics.
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hornet
- Medium interaction SSH honeypot that supports multiple virtual hosts.
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ssh-auth-logger
- Low/zero interaction SSH authentication logging honeypot.
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ssh-honeypot
- Fake sshd that logs IP addresses, usernames, and passwords.
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ssh-honeypot
- Modified version of the OpenSSH deamon that forwards commands to Cowrie where all commands are interpreted and returned.
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ssh-honeypotd
- Low-interaction SSH honeypot written in C.
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sshForShits
- Framework for a high interaction SSH honeypot.
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sshesame
- Fake SSH server that lets everyone in and logs their activity.
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sshhipot
- High-interaction MitM SSH honeypot.
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sshlowpot
- Yet another no-frills low-interaction SSH honeypot in Go.
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sshsyrup
- Simple SSH Honeypot with features to capture terminal activity and upload to asciinema.org.
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twisted-honeypots
- SSH, FTP and Telnet honeypots based on Twisted.
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Distributed sensor project
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A pcap analyzer
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Network traffic redirector
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Honeypot Distribution with mixed content
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Honeypot sensor
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Honeeepi - Honeypot sensor on a Raspberry Pi based on a customized Raspbian OS.
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File carving
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Behavioral analysis tool for win32
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Live CD
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DAVIX - The DAVIX Live CD.
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Spamtrap
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Mail::SMTP::Honeypot - Perl module that appears to provide the functionality of a standard SMTP server.
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Mailoney
- SMTP honeypot, Open Relay, Cred Harvester written in python.
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SendMeSpamIDS.py
- Simple SMTP fetch all IDS and analyzer.
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Shiva
- Spam Honeypot with Intelligent Virtual Analyzer.
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SMTPLLMPot
- A super simple SMTP Honeypot built using GPT3.5
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SpamHAT
- Spam Honeypot Tool.
- Spamhole
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honeypot
- The Project Honey Pot un-official PHP SDK.
- spamd
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Commercial honeynet
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Cymmetria Mazerunner - Leads attackers away from real targets and creates a footprint of the attack.
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Server (Bluetooth)
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Dynamic analysis of Android apps
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Dockerized Low Interaction packaging
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Docker honeynet
- Several Honeynet tools set up for Docker containers.
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Dockerized Thug - Dockerized Thug
to analyze malicious web content.
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Dockerpot
- Docker based honeypot.
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Manuka
- Docker based honeypot (Dionaea and Kippo).
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honey_ports
- Very simple but effective docker deployed honeypot to detect port scanning in your environment.
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mhn-core-docker
- Core elements of the Modern Honey Network implemented in Docker.
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Network analysis
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SIP Server
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SIP
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SentryPeer
- Protect your SIP Servers from bad actors.
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IOT Honeypot
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HoneyThing
- TR-069 Honeypot.
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Kako
- Honeypots for a number of well known and deployed embedded device vulnerabilities.
- Honeytokens
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CanaryTokens
- Self-hostable honeytoken generator and reporting dashboard; demo version available at CanaryTokens.org.
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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.
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Honeyλ (HoneyLambda)
- Simple, serverless application designed to create and monitor URL honeytokens, on top of AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway.
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dcept
- Tool for deploying and detecting use of Active Directory honeytokens.
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honeyku
- Heroku-based web honeypot that can be used to create and monitor fake HTTP endpoints (i.e. honeytokens).
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