Sinon – Modular Windows Burn-In Automation With Generative AI For Deception

Sinon is a modular tool for automatic burn-in of Windows-based deception hosts that aims to reduce the difficulty of orchestrating deception hosts at scale whilst enabling diversity and randomness through generative capabilities.

It has been created as a proof-of-concept and is not intended for production deception environments.

It would likely be better suited to having content pre-generated and built into a one-time script, as we wouldn’t want to be storing secrets like OpenAI API keys on a decoy or deception host.

Features

• Generative content including files, emails, and so on using OpenAI API (Configured for GPT-4o)
• Randomness factor – select from list in config, or follow config completely
• Temporal randomness – set delay to execution and delay between events including randomness factor

Sinon performs the following functions, as determined by a config file:

• Install Applications: Automatically install applications from a predefined list using Chocolatey.
• Browse Websites: Automatically open a list of websites to simulate user activity.
• Change Preferences: Modify system preferences such as default browser, background images, screen resolutions, and system languages.
• Add Start Menu Items: Add shortcuts to specified applications in the start menu.
• Create and Modify Files: Generate and modify text files with the option to use OpenAI GPT-4 for content generation.
• Send Emails: Send emails with the option to use OpenAI GPT-4 for content generation.
• Download Decoy Files: Download files from specified URLs to simulate decoy file activity.
• Manage Software: Install or uninstall software applications using predefined commands.
• Perform System Updates: Execute system update commands.
• Manage User Accounts: Create and manage user accounts with specified attributes.
• Manage Network Settings: Configure Wi-Fi network connections using SSID and password.
• Open Media Files: Open media files such as images, videos, and audio files.
• Print Documents: Print specified text documents.
• Create Scheduled Tasks: Schedule tasks to run specified commands at defined times.
• Simulate User Interaction: Control the duration and delay of interactions with randomness.
• Create Lures: Generate various types of lures to deceive intruders.
  • Credential pairs
  • SSH keys
  • Website URLs
  • Registry keys
  • CSV documents
  • API keys
  • LNK files (shortcuts)
• Monitor File System: Watch specified paths for file system events such as modifications and log these events.
• Redis Connectivity: Send generated lure data to Redis server for utilisation in additional deception steps and platforms.

Usage

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/sinon.git
cd sinon

1. Configure the application:
   • Modify the config.yaml file to suit your needs. See the Config Items section for details.
2. Build the application:

go build -o sinon
# building for windows on linux: GOOS=windows GOARCH=amd64 go build -o sinon.exe

3. Deploy the application to your target machine:

• This could be accomplished many ways, you may want to burn it in to an image, use SCCM/Intune etc.

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