Awesome Honeypots : Guardians Of The Digital Frontier – A Comprehensive Guide To Cybersecurity Tools

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.