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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Contents

• Awesome Honeypots
• Contents
  • Related Lists
  • Honeypots
  • Honeyd Tools
  • Network and Artifact Analysis
  • Data Tools
  • Guides

Related Lists

• awesome-pcaptools - Useful in network traffic analysis.
• awesome-malware-analysis - Some overlap here for artifact analysis.

Honeypots

• Database Honeypots

  • Delilah - Elasticsearch Honeypot written in Python (originally from Novetta).
  • ESPot - Elasticsearch honeypot written in NodeJS, to capture every attempts to exploit CVE-2014-3120.
  • ElasticPot - An Elasticsearch Honeypot.
  • Elastic honey - Simple Elasticsearch Honeypot.
  • MongoDB-HoneyProxy - MongoDB honeypot proxy.
  • NoSQLpot - Honeypot framework built on a NoSQL-style database.
  • mysql-honeypotd - Low interaction MySQL honeypot written in C.
  • MysqlPot - MySQL honeypot, still very early stage.
  • pghoney - Low-interaction Postgres Honeypot.
  • sticky_elephant - Medium interaction postgresql honeypot.
  • RedisHoneyPot - High Interaction Honeypot Solution for Redis protocol.

• Web honeypots

  • Express honeypot - RFI & LFI honeypot using nodeJS and express.
  • 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.
  • HellPot - Honeypot that tries to crash the bots and clients that visit it's location.
  • Laravel Application Honeypot - Simple spam prevention package for Laravel applications.
  • Nodepot - NodeJS web application honeypot.
  • PasitheaHoneypot - RestAPI honeypot.
  • Servletpot - Web application Honeypot.
  • Shadow Daemon - Modular Web Application Firewall / High-Interaction Honeypot for PHP, Perl, and 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.
  • bwpot - Breakable Web applications honeyPot.
  • django-admin-honeypot - Fake Django admin login screen to notify admins of attempted unauthorized access.
  • drupo - Drupal Honeypot.
  • galah - an LLM-powered web honeypot using the OpenAI API.
  • honeyhttpd - Python-based web server honeypot builder.
  • honeyup - An uploader honeypot designed to look like poor website security.
  • modpot - Modpot is a modular web application honeypot framework and management application written in Golang and making use of gin framework.
  • owa-honeypot - A basic flask based Outlook Web Honey pot.
  • phpmyadmin_honeypot - 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.
  • tomcat-manager-honeypot - Honeypot that mimics Tomcat manager endpoints. Logs requests and saves attacker's WAR file for later study.
  • WordPress honeypots
    • HonnyPotter - 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 - WordPress Honeypot.
  • Python-Honeypot - OWASP Honeypot, Automated Deception Framework.

• Service Honeypots

  • ADBHoney - Low interaction honeypot that simulates an Android device running Android Debug Bridge (ADB) server process.
  • AMTHoneypot - Honeypot for Intel's AMT Firmware Vulnerability CVE-2017-5689.
  • ddospot - NTP, DNS, SSDP, Chargen and generic UDP-based amplification DDoS honeypot.
  • dionaea - Home of the dionaea honeypot.
  • dhp - Simple Docker Honeypot server emulating small snippets of the Docker HTTP API.
  • DolosHoneypot - SDN (software defined networking) honeypot.
  • Ensnare - Easy to deploy Ruby honeypot.
  • Helix - K8s API Honeypot with Active Defense Capabilities.
  • 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.
  • honeyntp - NTP logger/honeypot.
  • honeypot-camera - Observation camera honeypot.
  • honeypot-ftp - FTP Honeypot.
  • 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).
  • honeytrap - Advanced Honeypot framework written in Go that can be connected with other honeypot software.
  • HoneyPy - Low interaction honeypot.
  • Honeygrove - Multi-purpose modular honeypot based on Twisted.
  • Honeyport - Simple honeyport written in Bash and Python.
  • Honeyprint - Printer honeypot.
  • Lyrebird - 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).
  • node-ftp-honeypot - FTP server honeypot in JS.
  • pyrdp - RDP man-in-the-middle and library for Python 3 with the ability to watch connections live or after the fact.
  • rdppot - RDP honeypot
  • RDPy - Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) honeypot implemented in Python.
  • SMB Honeypot - High interaction SMB service honeypot capable of capturing wannacry-like Malware.
  • Tom's Honeypot - Low interaction Python honeypot.
  • Trapster Commmunity - Modural and easy to install Python Honeypot, with comprehensive alerting
  • troje - Honeypot that runs each connection with the service within a separate LXC container.
  • 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.

• Distributed Honeypots

  • DemonHunter - Low interaction honeypot server.

• Anti-honeypot stuff

  • canarytokendetector - Tool for detection and nullification of Thinkst CanaryTokens
  • honeydet - Signature based honeypot detector tool written in Golang
  • kippo_detect - Offensive component that detects the presence of the kippo honeypot.

• 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

  • CitrixHoneypot - Detect and log CVE-2019-19781 scan and exploitation attempts.
  • Damn Simple Honeypot (DSHP) - Honeypot framework with pluggable handlers.
  • dicompot - DICOM Honeypot.
  • IPP Honey - A honeypot for the Internet Printing Protocol.
  • Log4Pot - A honeypot for the Log4Shell vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228).
  • 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.
  • medpot - HL7 / FHIR honeypot.
  • NOVA - Uses honeypots as detectors, looks like a complete system.
  • OpenFlow Honeypot (OFPot) - Redirects traffic for unused IPs to a honeypot, built on POX.
  • OpenCanary - Modular and decentralised honeypot daemon that runs several canary versions of services that alerts when a service is (ab)used.
  • ciscoasa_honeypot A low interaction honeypot for the Cisco ASA component capable of detecting CVE-2018-0101, a DoS and remote code execution vulnerability.
  • miniprint - A medium interaction printer honeypot.

• Botnet C2 tools

  • Hale - Botnet command and control monitor.
  • dnsMole - Analyses DNS traffic and potentionaly detect botnet command and control server activity, along with infected hosts.

• IPv6 attack detection tool

  • ipv6-attack-detector - Google Summer of Code