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Jun 01, 2026

Honeypots

• Honeypot Distribution with mixed content

  • HoneyDrive

May 27, 2026

Commercial Honepots

• honerix - Honerix is a distributed system for capturing web-based attacks. Honerix works by simulating vulnerable applications, with the goal of pushing attackers into deploying their malicious payload.

Honeypots

• CyberBriefing IOC Feeds API - REST API with 63K+ active IOCs from 20+ feeds. Useful for cross-referencing honeypot-captured IPs and domains against known malicious indicators. Free tier available.

• Database Honeypots

  • Acra (⭐1.5k) - Effective SQL database protection suite: strong selective encryption, SQL injections prevention, intrusion detection system based on using honeypots/poison records in the database.

  • Delilah - An Elasticsearch Honeypot written in Python.

  • ESPot (⭐28) - An Elasticsearch honeypot written in NodeJS, to capture every attempts to exploit CVE-2014-3120.

  • Elastic honey (⭐191) - A Simple Elasticsearch Honeypot.

  • HoneyMysql - A simple Mysql honeypot project.

  • MongoDB-HoneyProxy (⭐93) - A MongoDB honeypot proxy.

  • NoSQLpot (⭐103) - The NoSQL Honeypot Framework.

  • mysql-honeypotd (⭐37) - Low interaction MySQL honeypot written in C.

  • MysqlPot (⭐22) - A mysql honeypot, still very very early stage.

  • pghoney (⭐20) - Low-interaction Postgres Honeypot.

  • sticky_elephant (⭐13) - medium interaction postgresql honeypot.

  • Delilah (⭐25) - Elasticsearch Honeypot written in Python (originally from Novetta).

  • ESPot (⭐28) - Elasticsearch honeypot written in NodeJS, to capture every attempts to exploit CVE-2014-3120.

  • ElasticPot - An Elasticsearch Honeypot.

  • Elastic honey (⭐191) - Simple Elasticsearch Honeypot.

  • MongoDB-HoneyProxy (⭐93) - MongoDB honeypot proxy.

  • NoSQLpot (⭐103) - Honeypot framework built on a NoSQL-style database.

  • mysql-honeypotd (⭐37) - Low interaction MySQL honeypot written in C.

  • MysqlPot (⭐22) - MySQL honeypot, still very early stage.

  • pghoney (⭐20) - Low-interaction Postgres Honeypot.

  • sticky_elephant (⭐13) - Medium interaction postgresql honeypot.

  • RedisHoneyPot (⭐25) - High Interaction Honeypot Solution for Redis protocol.

• Blockchain honeypots
  • Ethereum-honey-pot (⭐12) - Tool hacking-back hackers who tried to steal tokens.

• Web honeypots

  • Krawl (⭐533) - Lightweight deception server and anti‑crawler that deploys realistic fake web applications with low‑hanging vulnerabilities and randomly generated decoy data.
  • Cloud Active Defense (⭐106) - Cloud active defense lets you deploy decoys right into your cloud applications, putting adversaries into a dilemma: to hack or not to hack?
  • Express honeypot (⭐21) - RFI & LFI honeypot using nodeJS and express.
  • EoHoneypotBundle (⭐38) - Honeypot type for Symfony2 forms.
  • FCaptcha (⭐152) - Self-hosted CAPTCHA that acts as an inline honeypot, detecting bots and vision AI agents through 40+ behavioral signals, headless browser fingerprinting, and SHA-256 proof of work.
  • Glastopf (⭐597) - Web Application Honeypot.
  • Google Hack Honeypot - Designed to provide reconnaissance against attackers that use search engines as a hacking tool against your resources.
  • HellPot (⭐1.1k) - Honeypot that tries to crash the bots and clients that visit it's location.
  • Laravel Application Honeypot (⭐437) - Simple spam prevention package for Laravel applications.
  • Lophiid (⭐27) - Distributed web application honeypot to interact with large scale exploitation attempts.
  • Nodepot (⭐48) - NodeJS web application honeypot.
  • PasitheaHoneypot (⭐4) - RestAPI honeypot.
  • Servletpot (⭐16) - Web application Honeypot.
  • Shadow Daemon - Modular Web Application Firewall / High-Interaction Honeypot for PHP, Perl, and Python apps.
  • StrutsHoneypot (⭐72) - Struts Apache 2 based honeypot as well as a detection module for Apache 2 servers.
  • WebTrap (⭐69) - Designed to create deceptive webpages to deceive and redirect attackers away from real websites.
  • basic-auth-pot (bap) (⭐54) - HTTP Basic Authentication honeypot.
  • bwpot (⭐28) - Breakable Web applications honeyPot.
  • django-admin-honeypot (⭐1.1k) - Fake Django admin login screen to notify admins of attempted unauthorized access.
  • drupo (⭐58) - Drupal Honeypot.
  • flux (⭐4) - Dynamic Web Honeypot with Canary Token Integration that is being actively maintained by LLMs.
  • galah (⭐648) - an LLM-powered web honeypot using the OpenAI API.
  • honeyhttpd (⭐54) - Python-based web server honeypot builder.
  • honeyup (⭐29) - An uploader honeypot designed to look like poor website security.
  • modpot (⭐63) - Modpot is a modular web application honeypot framework and management application written in Golang and making use of gin framework.
  • nginx-honeypot - A simple honeypot based on NGINX configuration that logs and blocks bots scanning for vulnerabilities.
  • owa-honeypot (⭐70) - A basic flask based Outlook Web Honey pot.
  • phpmyadmin_honeypot (⭐68) - Simple and effective phpMyAdmin honeypot.
  • shockpot - WebApp Honeypot for detecting Shell Shock exploit attempts.
  • smart-honeypot (⭐18) - PHP Script demonstrating a smart honey pot.
  • Snare/Tanner - successors to Glastopf
    • Snare (⭐479) - Super Next generation Advanced Reactive honeypot.
    • Tanner (⭐230) - Evaluating SNARE events.
  • stack-honeypot (⭐24) - Inserts a trap for spam bots into responses.
  • tomcat-manager-honeypot (⭐12) - Honeypot that mimics Tomcat manager endpoints. Logs requests and saves attacker's WAR file for later study.
  • WordPress honeypots
    • HonnyPotter (⭐35) - WordPress login honeypot for collection and analysis of failed login attempts.
    • HoneyPress (⭐8) - Python based WordPress honeypot in a Docker container.
    • wp-smart-honeypot (⭐29) - WordPress plugin to reduce comment spam with a smarter honeypot.
    • WebDecoy (⭐1) - Zero-configuration WordPress plugin with invisible honeypot fields, behavioral analysis, and SHA-256 proof-of-work challenges to detect bots, headless browsers, and automation frameworks.
    • wordpot (⭐185) - WordPress Honeypot.
  • Python-Honeypot (⭐479) - OWASP Honeypot, Automated Deception Framework.

• Space/Satellite honeypots

  • HoneySat (⭐0) - Mimics multiple satellite missions

• Dynamic Deception Tool

  • Mimicry (⭐60) - Mimicry is a dynamic deception tool that actively deceives an attacker during exploitation and post-exploitation.

Guides

• The Security Canary Maturity Model

Jul 14, 2023

Honeypots

• Service Honeypots
  • ADBHoney (⭐178) - 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 (⭐65) - NTP, DNS, SSDP, Chargen and generic UDP-based amplification DDoS honeypot.
  • dionaea (⭐800) - Home of the dionaea honeypot.
  • dhp (⭐33) - Simple Docker Honeypot server emulating small snippets of the Docker HTTP API.
  • DolosHoneypot (⭐4) - SDN (software defined networking) honeypot.
  • Ensnare (⭐68) - Easy to deploy Ruby honeypot.
  • GenAIPot - The first A.I based open source honeypot. supports POP3 and SMTP protocols and generates content using A.I based on user description.
  • Helix (⭐44) - K8s API Honeypot with Active Defense Capabilities.
  • honeycomb_plugins (⭐27) - 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 (⭐56) - NTP logger/honeypot.
  • honeypot-camera (⭐53) - Observation camera honeypot.
  • honeypot-ftp (⭐34) - FTP Honeypot.
  • honeypots (⭐971) - 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 (⭐1.3k) - Advanced Honeypot framework written in Go that can be connected with other honeypot software.
  • HoneyPy (⭐475) - Low interaction honeypot.
  • Honeygrove (⭐20) - Multi-purpose modular honeypot based on Twisted.
  • Honeyport (⭐47) - Simple honeyport written in Bash and Python.
  • Honeyprint (⭐21) - Printer honeypot.
  • Lyrebird - Modern high-interaction honeypot framework.
  • MICROS honeypot (⭐18) - Low interaction honeypot to detect CVE-2018-2636 in the Oracle Hospitality Simphony component of Oracle Hospitality Applications (MICROS).
  • node-ftp-honeypot (⭐6) - FTP server honeypot in JS.
  • pyrdp (⭐1.8k) - RDP man-in-the-middle and library for Python 3 with the ability to watch connections live or after the fact.
  • rdppot (⭐72) - RDP honeypot
  • RDPy (⭐1.7k) - Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) honeypot implemented in Python.
  • SMB Honeypot (⭐50) - High interaction SMB service honeypot capable of capturing wannacry-like Malware.
  • Tom's Honeypot (⭐26) - Low interaction Python honeypot.
  • Trapster Commmunity (⭐160) - Modural and easy to install Python Honeypot, with comprehensive alerting
  • troje (⭐45) - Honeypot that runs each connection with the service within a separate LXC container.
  • WebLogic honeypot (⭐33) - Low interaction honeypot to detect CVE-2017-10271 in the Oracle WebLogic Server component of Oracle Fusion Middleware.
  • WhiteFace Honeypot (⭐6) - Twisted based honeypot for WhiteFace.

Aug 27, 2022

Honeypots

• SIP

  • SentryPeer (⭐210) - Protect your SIP Servers from bad actors.

Aug 10, 2022

Honeypots

• Low interaction honeypot

  • Honeyperl - Honeypot software based in Perl with plugins developed for many functions like : wingates, telnet, squid, smtp, etc.
  • T-Pot (⭐9.2k) - All in one honeypot appliance from telecom provider T-Mobile
  • beelzebub (⭐2k) - A secure honeypot framework, extremely easy to configure by yaml 🚀

Jan 11, 2022

Honeypots

• Distributed Honeypots

  • DemonHunter (⭐63) - Low interaction honeypot server.

• Anti-honeypot stuff

  • canarytokendetector (⭐26) - Tool for detection and nullification of Thinkst CanaryTokens
  • honeydet (⭐111) - Signature based honeypot detector tool written in Golang
  • kippo_detect (⭐60) - Offensive component that detects the presence of the kippo honeypot.
  • potsnitch (⭐12) - Honeypot detection toolkit with protocol fingerprinting for 25+ honeypot types.

• ICS/SCADA honeypots

  • Conpot (⭐1.5k) - ICS/SCADA honeypot.
  • GasPot (⭐149) - Veeder Root Gaurdian AST, common in the oil and gas industry.
  • SCADA honeynet - Building Honeypots for Industrial Networks.
  • gridpot (⭐61) - 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.
  • HoneyPLC (⭐98) - Mimics multiple PLC devices, including Siemenens and Rockewell

• Other/random

  • CitrixHoneypot (⭐120) - Detect and log CVE-2019-19781 scan and exploitation attempts.
  • Damn Simple Honeypot (DSHP) (⭐18) - Honeypot framework with pluggable handlers.
  • dicompot (⭐28) - DICOM Honeypot.
  • IPP Honey - A honeypot for the Internet Printing Protocol.
  • Log4Pot (⭐94) - A honeypot for the Log4Shell vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228).
  • Masscanned (⭐138) - 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 (⭐27) - HL7 / FHIR honeypot.
  • NOVA (⭐81) - Uses honeypots as detectors, looks like a complete system.
  • OpenFlow Honeypot (OFPot) (⭐25) - Redirects traffic for unused IPs to a honeypot, built on POX.
  • OpenCanary (⭐2.9k) - Modular and decentralised honeypot daemon that runs several canary versions of services that alerts when a service is (ab)used.
  • ciscoasa_honeypot (⭐57) A low interaction honeypot for the Cisco ASA component capable of detecting CVE-2018-0101, a DoS and remote code execution vulnerability.
  • miniprint (⭐204) - A medium interaction printer honeypot.
  • FortiGate SSL-VPN Honeypot (⭐10) - Mimics FortiGate SSL-VPN devices to capture brute-force attempts, symlink exploit probes, and malicious IP telemetry.

• Botnet C2 tools

  • Hale (⭐202) - 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 (⭐44) - 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

  • 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.
  • 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.

• 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 (⭐19) - Honeypot for router backdoor (TCP 32764).
  • WAPot (⭐21) - Honeypot that can be used to observe traffic directed at home routers.

• honeynet farm traffic redirector

  • Honeymole - Deploy 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 allows one to capture system state and activity from a running GNU/Linux instance, then save, filter, and analyze the results.
  • Fibratus (⭐2.5k) - Tool for exploration and tracing of the Windows kernel.

• Honeypot for USB-spreading malware

  • Ghost-usb (⭐103) - Honeypot for malware that propagates via USB storage devices.

• Data Collection

  • Kippo2MySQL - Extracts some very basic stats from Kippo’s text-based log files 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

  • Passive Network Audit Framework (pnaf) (⭐32) - Framework that combines multiple passive and automated analysis techniques in order to provide a security assessment of network platforms.

• VM monitoring and tools

  • Antivmdetect (⭐770) - Script to create templates to use with VirtualBox to make VM detection harder.
  • VMCloak (⭐515) - 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

  • Hexgolems - Pint Debugger Backend (⭐33) - Debugger backend and LUA wrapper for PIN.
  • Hexgolems - Schem Debugger Frontend (⭐141) - Debugger frontend.

• Mobile Analysis Tool

  • Androguard (⭐6.1k) - Reverse engineering, Malware and goodware analysis of Android applications and more.
  • APKinspector (⭐853) - Powerful GUI tool for analysts to analyze the Android applications.

• Honeynet data fusion

  • HFlow2 - Data coalesing tool for honeynet/network analysis.

• Server

  • Amun - Vulnerability emulation honeypot.
  • Artillery (⭐1k) - 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 (⭐6) - Automatic deploy bifrozt with ansible.
  • Conpot - Low interactive server side Industrial Control Systems honeypot.
  • Heralding (⭐393) - Credentials catching honeypot.
  • HoneyWRT (⭐25) - Low interaction Python honeypot designed to mimic services or ports that might get targeted by attackers.
  • Honeyd (⭐13) - See honeyd tools.
  • Honeysink - Open source network sinkhole that provides a mechanism for detection and prevention of malicious traffic on a given network.
  • Hontel (⭐163) - 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 (⭐108) - Open Source Telnet Honeypot, focused on Mirai malware.
  • SIREN (⭐15) - Semi-Intelligent HoneyPot Network - HoneyNet Intelligent Virtual Environment.
  • TelnetHoney (⭐2) - Simple telnet honeypot.
  • UDPot Honeypot (⭐50) - Simple UDP/DNS honeypot scripts.
  • Yet Another Fake Honeypot (YAFH) (⭐10) - Simple honeypot written in Go.
  • arctic-swallow (⭐3) - Low interaction honeypot.
  • fapro (⭐1.6k) - Fake Protocol Server.
  • glutton (⭐303) - All eating honeypot.
  • go-HoneyPot (⭐48) - Honeypot server written in Go.
  • go-emulators (⭐11) - Honeypot Golang emulators.
  • honeymail (⭐34) - SMTP honeypot written in Golang.
  • honeytrap (⭐96) - Low-interaction honeypot and network security tool written to catch attacks against TCP and UDP services.
  • imap-honey (⭐26) - IMAP honeypot written in Golang.
  • mwcollectd - Versatile malware collection daemon, uniting the best features of nepenthes and honeytrap.
  • potd (⭐31) - 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.
  • portlurker (⭐36) - Port listener in Rust with protocol guessing and safe string display.
  • slipm-honeypot (⭐19) - Simple low-interaction port monitoring honeypot.
  • telnet-iot-honeypot (⭐314) - Python telnet honeypot for catching botnet binaries.
  • telnetlogger (⭐245) - Telnet honeypot designed to track the Mirai botnet.
  • vnclowpot (⭐23) - Low interaction VNC honeypot.

• IDS signature generation

  • Honeycomb - Automated signature creation using honeypots.

• Lookup service for AS-numbers and prefixes

  • CC2ASN - Simple lookup service for AS-numbers and prefixes belonging to any given country in the world.

• Data Collection / Data Sharing

  • HPfriends - Honeypot data-sharing platform.
    • hpfriends - real-time social data-sharing - Presentation about HPFriends feed system
  • HPFeeds (⭐218) - Lightweight authenticated publish-subscribe protocol.

• Central management tool

  • PHARM - Manage, report, and analyze your distributed Nepenthes instances.

• Network connection analyzer

  • Impost - Network security auditing tool designed to analyze the forensics behind compromised and/or vulnerable daemons.

• Honeypot deployment

  • honeyfs (⭐9) - Tool to create artificial file systems for medium/high interaction honeypots.
  • Modern Honeynet Network - Streamlines deployment and management of secure honeypots.

• Honeypot extensions to Wireshark

  • Wireshark Extensions - Apply Snort IDS rules and signatures against packet capture files using Wireshark.

• Client

  • CWSandbox / GFI Sandbox
  • Capture-HPC-Linux
  • Capture-HPC-NG (⭐11)
  • Capture-HPC - High interaction client honeypot (also called honeyclient).
  • HoneyBOT
  • HoneyC
  • HoneySpider Network (⭐29) - Highly-scalable system integrating multiple client honeypots to detect malicious websites.
  • HoneyWeb - Web interface created to manage and remotely share Honeyclients resources.
  • Jsunpack-n (⭐168)
  • MonkeySpider
  • PhoneyC (⭐26) - Python honeyclient (later replaced by Thug).
  • Pwnypot - High Interaction Client Honeypot.
  • Rumal - Thug's Rumāl: a Thug's dress and weapon.
  • Shelia - Client-side honeypot for attack detection.
  • Thug - Python-based low-interaction honeyclient.
  • Thug Distributed Task Queuing
  • Trigona
  • URLQuery
  • YALIH (Yet Another Low Interaction Honeyclient) (⭐68) - Low-interaction client honeypot designed to detect malicious websites through signature, anomaly, and pattern matching techniques.

• Honeypot

  • Deception Toolkit
  • IMHoneypot (⭐16)

• PDF document inspector

  • peepdf (⭐1.5k) - Powerful Python tool to analyze PDF documents.

• Hybrid low/high interaction honeypot

  • HoneyBrid

• SSH Honeypots

  • Blacknet (⭐25) - Multi-head SSH honeypot system.
  • Cowrie (⭐6.4k) - Cowrie SSH Honeypot (based on kippo).
  • DShield docker (⭐17) - Docker container running cowrie with DShield output enabled.
  • endlessh (⭐8.5k) - SSH tarpit that slowly sends an endless banner. (docker image)
  • HonSSH (⭐375) - Logs all SSH communications between a client and server.
  • HUDINX (⭐8) - Tiny interaction SSH honeypot engineered in Python to log brute force attacks and, most importantly, the entire shell interaction performed by the attacker.
  • InnerWarden (⭐149) - Security agent with built-in SSH and HTTP honeypots featuring an LLM-powered interactive fake shell that captures credentials and attacker commands.
  • Kippo (⭐1.7k) - Medium interaction SSH honeypot.
  • Kippo_JunOS (⭐11) - Kippo configured to be a backdoored netscreen.
  • Kojoney2 (⭐39) - Low interaction SSH honeypot written in Python and based on Kojoney by Jose Antonio Coret.
  • Kojoney - Python-based Low interaction honeypot that emulates an SSH server implemented with Twisted Conch.
  • Longitudinal Analysis of SSH Cowrie Honeypot Logs (⭐20) - Python based command line tool to analyze cowrie logs over time.
  • LongTail Log Analysis @ Marist College - Analyzed SSH honeypot logs.
  • Malbait (⭐9) - Simple TCP/UDP honeypot implemented in Perl.
  • MockSSH (⭐130) - Mock an SSH server and define all commands it supports (Python, Twisted).
  • cowrie2neo (⭐8) - Parse cowrie honeypot logs into a neo4j database.
  • go-sshoney (⭐34) - SSH Honeypot.
  • go0r (⭐37) - Simple ssh honeypot in Golang.
  • gohoney (⭐13) - SSH honeypot written in Go.
  • hived (⭐4) - Golang-based honeypot.
  • hnypots-agent) (⭐40) - SSH Server in Go that logs username and password combinations.
  • honeypot.go (⭐30) - SSH Honeypot written in Go.
  • honeyssh (⭐14) - Credential dumping SSH honeypot with statistics.
  • hornet (⭐24) - Medium interaction SSH honeypot that supports multiple virtual hosts.
  • ssh-auth-logger (⭐27) - Low/zero interaction SSH authentication logging honeypot.
  • ssh-honeypot (⭐675) - Fake sshd that logs IP addresses, usernames, and passwords.
  • ssh-honeypot (⭐28) - Modified version of the OpenSSH deamon that forwards commands to Cowrie where all commands are interpreted and returned.
  • ssh-honeypotd (⭐20) - Low-interaction SSH honeypot written in C.
  • sshForShits (⭐39) - Framework for a high interaction SSH honeypot.
  • sshesame (⭐1.7k) - Fake SSH server that lets everyone in and logs their activity.
  • sshhipot (⭐173) - High-interaction MitM SSH honeypot.
  • sshlowpot (⭐16) - Yet another no-frills low-interaction SSH honeypot in Go.
  • sshsyrup (⭐99) - Simple SSH Honeypot with features to capture terminal activity and upload to asciinema.org.
  • twisted-honeypots (⭐87) - SSH, FTP and Telnet honeypots based on Twisted.

• Distributed sensor project

  • DShield Web Honeypot Project

• A pcap analyzer

  • Honeysnap

• Network traffic redirector

  • Honeywall

• Honeypot sensor

  • Honeeepi - Honeypot sensor on a Raspberry Pi based on a customized Raspbian OS.

• File carving

  • TestDisk & PhotoRec

• Behavioral analysis tool for win32

  • Capture BAT

• Live CD

  • DAVIX - The DAVIX Live CD.

• Spamtrap

  • Mail::SMTP::Honeypot - Perl module that appears to provide the functionality of a standard SMTP server.
  • Mailoney (⭐282) - SMTP honeypot written in python.
  • SendMeSpamIDS.py (⭐12) - Simple SMTP fetch all IDS and analyzer.
  • Shiva (⭐140) - Spam Honeypot with Intelligent Virtual Analyzer.
    • Shiva The Spam Honeypot Tips And Tricks For Getting It Up And Running
  • SMTPLLMPot (⭐7) - A super simple SMTP Honeypot built using GPT3.5
  • SpamHAT (⭐27) - Spam Honeypot Tool.
  • Spamhole
  • honeypot (⭐2) - The Project Honey Pot un-official PHP SDK.
  • spamd

• Commercial honeynet

  • Cymmetria Mazerunner - Leads attackers away from real targets and creates a footprint of the attack.

• Server (Bluetooth)

  • Bluepot (⭐272)

• Dynamic analysis of Android apps

  • Droidbox

• Dockerized Low Interaction packaging

  • Docker honeynet (⭐22) - Several Honeynet tools set up for Docker containers.
  • Dockerized Thug - Dockerized Thug (⭐1k) to analyze malicious web content.
  • Dockerpot (⭐152) - Docker based honeypot.
  • Manuka (⭐26) - Docker based honeypot (Dionaea and Kippo).
  • honey_ports (⭐9) - Very simple but effective docker deployed honeypot to detect port scanning in your environment.
  • mhn-core-docker (⭐35) - Core elements of the Modern Honey Network implemented in Docker.

• Network analysis

  • Quechua

• SIP Server

  • Artemnesia VoIP

• IOT Honeypot

  • HoneyThing (⭐130) - TR-069 Honeypot.
  • Kako (⭐29) - Honeypots for a number of well known and deployed embedded device vulnerabilities.

• Honeytokens
  • CanaryTokens (⭐2.1k) - Self-hostable honeytoken generator and reporting dashboard; demo version available at CanaryTokens.org.
  • Honeybits (⭐277) - 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) (⭐525) - Simple, serverless application designed to create and monitor URL honeytokens, on top of AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway.
  • dcept (⭐506) - Tool for deploying and detecting use of Active Directory honeytokens.
  • honeyku (⭐65) - Heroku-based web honeypot that can be used to create and monitor fake HTTP endpoints (i.e. honeytokens).
  • Tracebit Community Edition - online free canary tokens (AWS, SSH, Email, Web)

Honeyd Tools

• Honeyd plugin

  • Honeycomb

• Honeyd viewer

  • Honeyview

• Honeyd to MySQL connector

  • Honeyd2MySQL

• A script to visualize statistics from honeyd

  • Honeyd-Viz

• Honeyd stats
  • Honeydsum.pl (⭐391)

Network and Artifact Analysis

• Sandbox

  • Argos - Emulator for capturing zero-day attacks.
  • COMODO automated sandbox
  • Cuckoo - Leading open source automated malware analysis system.
  • Pylibemu (⭐129) - Libemu Cython wrapper.
  • RFISandbox - PHP 5.x script sandbox built on top of funcall.
  • dorothy2 (⭐195) - Malware/botnet analysis framework written in Ruby.
  • imalse (⭐13) - Integrated MALware Simulator and Emulator.
  • libemu (⭐154) - 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.
  • malwr.com - Free malware analysis service and community.

Data Tools

• Front Ends

  • DionaeaFR (⭐68) - Front Web to Dionaea low-interaction honeypot.
  • Django-kippo (⭐13) - Django App for kippo SSH Honeypot.
  • Shockpot-Frontend (⭐4) - Full featured script to visualize statistics from a Shockpot honeypot.
  • Tango (⭐255) - Honeypot Intelligence with Splunk.
  • Wordpot-Frontend (⭐6) - Full featured script to visualize statistics from a Wordpot honeypot.
  • honeyalarmg2 - Simplified UI for showing honeypot alarms.
  • honeypotDisplay (⭐4) - Flask website which displays data gathered from an SSH Honeypot.

• Visualization

  • Acapulco (⭐11) - Automated Attack Community Graph Construction.
  • Afterglow Cloud (⭐16)
  • Afterglow
  • Glastopf Analytics (⭐4) - Easy honeypot statistics.
  • HoneyMalt (⭐15) - Maltego tranforms for mapping Honeypot systems.
  • HoneyMap (⭐226) - Real-time websocket stream of GPS events on a fancy SVG world map.
  • HoneyStats - Statistical view of the recorded activity on a Honeynet.
  • HpfeedsHoneyGraph (⭐16) - Visualization app to visualize hpfeeds logs.
  • IVRE (⭐4k) - Network recon framework, published by @cea-sec & @ANSSI-FR. Build your own, self-hosted and fully-controlled alternatives to Criminalip / Shodan / ZoomEye / Censys and GreyNoise, run your Passive DNS service, collect and analyse network intelligence from your sensors, and much more!
  • Kippo stats (⭐19) - Mojolicious app to display statistics for your kippo SSH honeypot.
  • Kippo-Graph - Full featured script to visualize statistics from a Kippo SSH honeypot.
  • The Intelligent HoneyNet (⭐65) - Create actionable information from honeypots.
  • ovizart (⭐49) - Visual analysis for network traffic.
  • SSH-Radar (⭐2) - Real-time monitoring and visualization of failed SSH login attempts with geolocation and Grafana dashboards.

Guides

• Deployment

  • Dionaea and EC2 in 20 Minutes - Tutorial on setting up Dionaea on an EC2 instance.
  • 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.
  • honeypotpi (⭐35) - Script for turning a Raspberry Pi into a HoneyPot Pi.

• Research Papers

  • Honeypot research papers (⭐35) - PDFs of research papers on honeypots.
  • vEYE - Behavioral footprinting for self-propagating worm detection and profiling.
  • The Tularosa Study: An Experimental Design and Implementation to Quantify the Effectiveness of Cyber Deception
  • 'It's Not Paranoia If They're Really After You': When Announcing Deception Technology Can Change Attacker Decisions
  • When to Deceive: A Cross-Layer Stackelberg Game Framework for Strategic Timing of Cyber Deception

Jul 31, 2018

Honeypots

• awesome-pcaptools (⭐3.4k) - Useful in network traffic analysis.

• awesome-malware-analysis (⭐14k) - Some overlap here for artifact analysis.

Aug 05, 2015

Guides

• Honeypot (Dionaea and kippo) setup script (⭐83)

Jul 03, 2015

Guides

• T-Pot: A Multi-Honeypot Platform