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Honeynets/pots

Honeypots are a highly flexible security tool with differing applications for security. They don't fix a single problem,  instead they have multiple uses, such as prevention, detection, or information gathering.  Honeypots all share the same concept, a security resource that should not have any production or authorized activity.  This makes them very simple to use.  There are two general types of honeypots, production and research.   Production honeypots are easy to use, capture only limited information, and used primarily by companies or corporations.  Research honeypots are complex to deploy and maintain, capture extensive information, and used primarily by research, military, or government organizations. [Lance Spitzner]

If you are intending to play with honeypots I would strongly suggest visiting the HoneyNet Project site at http://www.honeynet.org furthermore, I don't want to replicate their tools page which contains some additional cool products for handling HoneyNet data.  Finally read their book Know Your Enemy 2 or Lance Spitzner's book Honeypots: Tracking Hackers
This page contains some tools that do not meet with The HoneyNet description.



 

Honeystick

Debian/USB

UK Honeynet

http://www.ukhoneynet.org/honeystick.htm

A HoneyStick is a portable honeynet demonstration and incident response tool - an complete OS platform, GenIII honeywall and one or more honeypots on a single bootable USB stick.

Some licenses required

Information Updated: 07 Nov 2005


mwcollect

  credits  Paul Baecher, Thorsten Holz, Markus Kötter, Georg Wicherski http://www.mwcollect.org/
mwcollect is an easy solution to collect worms and other autonomous spreading malware in a non-native environment like Linux. The first versions were used to collect binaries for botnet monitoring and bots are still what we mostly see. Some people consider it a next generation honeypot, however that comparison often leads to the misunderstanding that computers running mwcollect can actually be infected with the malware -- that is not the case!

GPL

Information Updated: 07 Nov 2005


BackOfficer Friendly

Win32
Unix (reduced function)

NFR Security

http://www.nfr.com/resource/backOfficer.php

Known as a "honey pot" for its ability to attract and trap hackers, Back Officer Friendly (BOF) is a popular free download available exclusively from NFR Security, Inc.   Back Officer Friendly was originally created to detect when anyone attempts a Back Orifice scan against your computer. It has since evolved to detect attempted connections to other services, such Telnet, FTP, SMTP, POP3 and IMAP2. When BOF receives a connection to one of these services, it will fake replies to the hopeful hacker, wasting the attacker's time, and giving you time to stop them from other mischief.

COMMERCIAL - But Free

Information Updated: 15 Jan 2004


Bait n Switch

 

 

http://baitnswitch.sourceforge.net/

The Bait and Switch Honeypot is a multifaceted attempt to take honeypots out of the shadows of the network security model and to make them an active participant in system defense. To do this, we are creating a system that reacts to hostile intrusion attempts by redirecting all hostile traffic to a honeypot that is partially mirroring your production system.  Once switched, the would-be hacker is unknowingly attacking your honeypot instead of the real data and your clients and/or users still safely accessing the real system. Life goes on, your data is safe, and you are learning about the bad guy as an added benefit. The system is based on snort, linux's iproute2, netfilter, and custom code for now. We plan on adding additional support in the future if possible.
 

FREEWARE

Information Updated:17 May 2003 


Bubblegum

 

 

http://world.std.com/~pacman/proxypot.html

An open proxy is a server that forwards Internet connections from anywhere to anywhere, no questions asked. If you want to do something bad, and don't want to get caught, all you have to do is find an open proxy and tell it to do it. Nobody will know who did it, except the open proxy, and even there the records are usually short-lived or nonexistent.
An open proxy honeypot (proxypot) is a server that pretends to be an open proxy, taking requests from bad people to do bad things, and responding with a simulation instead of doing the evil deed. The goal is to fool the bad people into thinking they've done their bad thing and got away with it, while actually they didn't do it, and they got caught anyway!

FREEWARE

Information Updated:15 Jan 2004 

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Deception Toolkit

 

 

http://www.all.net/dtk/dtk.html

DTK, the deception is intended to make it appear to attackers as if the system running DTK has a large number of widely known vulnerabilities. DTK's deception is programmable, but it is typically limited to producing output in response to attacker input in such a way as to simulate the behavior of a system which is vulnerable to the attackers method.
DTK simply listens for inputs and provides responses that seem normal (i.e., full of bugs). In the process, it logs what is being done, provides sensible (if not quite perfect) answers, and lulls the attacker into a false sense of (your) insecurity

FREEWARE

Information Updated:18 Aug 2002 


Decoy Server Formerly known as ManTrap from Recourse

Windows® 95/98/NT®/2000 Solaris 2.5.1 (Intel only) Solaris 2.6 or Solaris 7 on Intel or SPARC

Symantec Corporation.

http://enterprisesecurity.symantec.com
/products/products.cfm?ProductID=157

By creating a realistic mock network environment, the solution serves as an attack target in order to protect critical areas of the network. As a supplement to security solutions such as firewalls, it employs advanced decoy technology to enable early warning and detection to divert and confine attacks.
Symantec Decoy Server sensors deliver holistic detection and response and provide detailed information through its system of data collection modules. Every action is recorded for analysis, allowing administrators to understand the threat and implement an appropriate, policy-based response. Advanced filters enable the solution to automatically discard insignificant events, leaving only the data required to respond effectively to any incident.

COMMERCIAL

Information Updated:14 Jan 2004 


HOACD

 

Honeynet.BR Project

http://www.honeynet.org.br/tools/

HOACD means Honeyd+OpenBSD+Arpd in a CD.  It is the implementation of a low-interaction honeypot that runs directly from a CD and stores its logs and configuration files on a hard disk. The CD is bootable and uses the OpenBSD operating system, the low-interaction honeypot daemon honeyd and the user-space arp daemon.

FREE

Information Updated:27 Jun 2004 


Honeynet Security Console

 

Activeworx Inc,

http://www.activeworx.org/programs/hsc/index.htm

Honeynet Security Console is an analysis tool to view events on your personal honeynet. It gives you the power to view events from Snort, TCPDump, Firewall, Syslog and Sebek logs. It also allows you to correlate events from each of these data types to have a full grasp of the attackers' actions.

FREE

Information Updated:27 Jun 2004 

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HoneyD

 

Niels Provos

http://niels.xtdnet.nl/honeyd/

Honeyd is a small daemon that creates virtual hosts on a network. The hosts can be configured to run arbitrary services, and their personality can be adapted so that they appear to be running certain operating systems. Honeyd enables a single host to claim multiple addresses - I have tested up to 65536 - on a LAN for network simulation. Honeyd improves cyber security by providing mechanisms for threat detection and assessment. It also deters adversaries by hiding real systems in the middle of virtual systems.

FREE

Information Updated:14 Jan 2004 


HoneyComb

Linux

Christian Kreibich

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~cpk25/honeycomb/

Honeycomb is good at spotting worms. For example, Honeycomb creates detailed signatures for Slammer and Code Red (far more detailed than the typical web server request line) on a typical end-user DSL connection. But the system has lots of other potential uses -- it can be applied to any kind of traffic to actively search for signatures when those are currently not available. Examples are all those "Does anyone have a signature for program X"-type of questions on IDS mailing lists -- just run this traffic through Honeycomb and see what you get. Spam detection is another potential application that comes to mind.

The system is an extension of the open-source honeypot honeyd and inspects traffic inside the honeypot; currently it examines protocol headers as well as payload data. Integrating Honeycomb with honeyd has several advantages over a bump-in-the-wire approach:

GPL

Information Updated:19 Jul 2004 

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HoneyWall

 

Rob McMillen

http://www.honeynet.org/tools/cdrom/

The Honeywall CDROM combines all the tools and requirements of a GenII honeynet gateway on a (hopefully) easy to use, secure, bootable CDROM. The intent is to make honeynets easier to deploy and customize. You simply boot off the CDROM, configure it based on your environment, and you should have a Honeywall gateway ready to go. The CDROM supports several configuration methods, including an interactive menu and .iso customization scripts. The CDROM is an appliance, based on a minimized and secured Linux OS.

FREE

Information Updated:27 Jun 2004 


Jackpot

 

Jack Cleaver

http://jackpot.uk.net/

Jackpot is a ready-to-run SMTP relay honeypot, written in pure Java.
By running a relay honeypot on your computer, you can make a contribution to the battle against spam email. Jackpot enables you to submit accurately-aimed complaints, with detailed documentation accessible via a built-in web-server.  Jackpot is very entertaining to run - you can watch spam getting logged and then blackholed in real-time. You can examine the envelope (HELO) commands used to submit the spam to Jackpot, which is not possible using a simple spamtrap address. The details of spam-runs are saved in comma-delimited files, which you can analyse using simple tools.

FREE

Information Updated:30 Jun 2004 


KFSensor

 W32

KeyFocus Ltd

http://www.keyfocus.net/kfsensor/index.php

It acts as a honey pot to attract and detect hackers by simulating vulnerable system services and trojans. The system is highly configurable and features detailed logging, analysis of attack and security alerts. This approach complements other forms of security and adds another defense against the growing security threat faced by all organizations.

Commercial

Information Updated:25 Apr 2003 


LaBrea Tarpit

Linux / W32

 

http://labrea.sourceforge.net/labrea-info.html

LaBrea is a program that creates a tarpit or, as some have called it a "sticky honeypot". LaBrea takes over unused IP addresses on a network and creates "virtual machines" that answer to connection attempts. LaBrea answers those connection attempts in a way that causes the machine at the other end to get "stuck", sometimes for a very long time.

FREEWARE

Information Updated:20 Dec 2004 

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NetFacade

Sun Ultra Sparc 5 workstation running Solaris 7

Verizon

http://www22.verizon.com/fns/solutions/netsec/netsec_netfacade.html

The Verizon NetFacade Intrusion Detection service creates a Honeynet that exists to alert network security or management personnel of an intrusion. In addition, it has a secondary effect of distracting intruders from probing and attacking the real targets on a network. NetFacade simulates a network of hosts running seemingly vulnerable services. A scan of the range of IP addresses the NetFacade is simulating will return information on the simulated services as if they were real network services running on actual hosts. Since there are no actual users of this virtual network of simulated hosts, all traffic to it is considered to be suspicious. All traffic to the NetFacade Intrusion Detection service on the virtual network is logged and brought to the attention of the Security Administrator(s).

COMMERCIAL

Information Updated:20 Dec 2004


NetScreen IDP

Appliance

Juniper Networks, Inc


http://www.juniper.net/products/intrusion/detection.html#

The Network Honeypot impersonates services, sending fake information in response to scans to try and entice attackers to access the non-existent services. An attack is identified when the attacker returns and tries to access the impersonated resources. There is no reason for legitimate traffic to access these resources because they don't exist, so any attempt to connect constitutes an attack. This is a good way to stop the "noise' created by "script kiddies" and unsophisticated attackers.

COMMERCIAL

Information Updated:19 Jul 2004 

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PatriotBox

 

Alkasis Corporation

http://www.alkasis.com/?fuseaction=products.main

Use PatriotBox to help reduce spam on the Internet. PatriotBox simulates an Open Relay Mail server. Spammers think they are relaying mail, but no mail ever leaves PatriotBox and PatriotBox logs every move they make.

COMMERCIAL

Information Updated:19 Jul 2004 


Sebek

 

 

http://project.honeynet.org/tools/sebek/

Sebek is a data capture tool designed to capture the attackers activities on a honeypot, without the attacker (hopefully) knowing it. It has two components. The first is a client that runs on the honeypots, its purpose is to capture all of the attackers activities (keystrokes, file uploads, passwords) then covertly send the data to the server. The second component is the server which collects the data from the honeypots. The server normally runs on the Honeywall gateway.

Free

Information Updated:20 Dec 2004 


Smoke Detector

Win 2000

Palisade Systems, Inc

http://palisadesys.com/products/smokedetector/index.shtml

SmokeDetector can add another valuable layer of protection. Able to mimic up to 19 of the most common server operating systems on one physical box, SmokeDetector will confuse and delay a hacker trying to reach critical information. When SmokeDetector is accessed, that information is logged and an immediate notification is sent to the administrator.
Emulates:
Linux  - Solaris8  -  HP-UX  -  AIX4  -  FreeBSD4  -  AS/400  -  WindowsNT4  -  Windows2000  -  Cisco
 

COMMERCIAL

Information Updated:15 Jan 2004 


Sombria

 

Little eArth Corporation

http://www.lac.co.jp/business/sns/intelligence/sombria_e.html

Sombria is a honeypot system comprised of a web server, a firewall and an intrusion detection system that is intended for the sole purpose of network surveillance and research. This combination of surveillance technologies makes it possible to control and watch intruders' movements closely and in real time as they go about their mission without them even realizing it. New trends in attacks detected through Sombria and all prominent intrusions and worm attacks to which the honeypot system was exposed are released in the form of reports.

COMMERCIAL

Information Updated:20 Dec 2004

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Specter

Agent: Windows 2000, Windows XP
Console: Windows 2000, Windows XP

NETSEC

http://www.specter.com/default50.htm

SPECTER is a smart honeypot or deception system. It simulates a complete machine, providing an interesting target to lure hackers away from the production machines. SPECTER offers common Internet services such as SMTP, FTP, POP3, HTTP and TELNET which appear perfectly normal to the attackers but in fact are traps for them to mess around and leave traces without even knowing that they are connected to a decoy system, which does none of the things it appears to do, but instead logs everything and notifies the appropriate people. Furthermore, SPECTER automatically investigates the
attackers while they are still trying to break in. SPECTER provides massive amounts of decoy content and it generates decoy programs that will leave hidden marks on the attacker's computer. Automated weekly online updates of the honeypot's content and vulnerability databases allow the honeypot to change constantly without user interaction.
 

COMMERCIAL

Information Updated: 15 Jan 2004


Tiny Honeypot

Linux

George Bakos

http://freshmeat.net/projects/thp/

Tiny Honeypot (thp) is a simple honey pot program based on iptables redirects and an xinetd listener. It listens on every TCP port not currently in use, logging all activity and providing some feedback to the attacker. The responders are entirely written in Perl, and provide just enough interaction to fool most automated attack tools, as well as quite a few humans, at least for a little while. With appropriate limits (default), thp can reside on production hosts with negligible impact on performance.

GPL

Information Updated: 19 Jul 2004


WormRadar

Windows

Roger Thompson

http://wormradar.com/

Welcome to the home of WormRadar. The chart below is a summary of all worm and probe activity detected by WormRadar nodes around the world, and is refreshed about every 30 minutes. "Summarised" means that multiple hits from a single source IP to a single target IP on a single port, is only counted as one hit.

Free

Information Updated: 19 Jul 2004

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