Honeynet.org: Tracking Botnets
- Paper on the use of honeynets to learn more about botnets. Covers uses of botnets, how they work and how to track them.
- http://www.honeynet.org/papers/bots/
Chinese Honeynet Project
- The Artemis Project (Chinese Honeynet Project).
- http://www.honeynet.org.cn
Honeycomb
- A system for automated generation of signatures for network intrusion detection systems (NIDSs).
- http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~cpk25/honeycomb/index.html
Deploying and Using Sinkholes
- Configuring and deploying Sink Hole Routers, which are the network equivalent of a honey pot.
- http://www.arbornetworks.com/dmdocuments/Sinkhole_Tutorial_June03.pdf
Open Proxy Honeypot
- Web Application Security Consortium Distributed Open Proxy Honeypot Project.
- http://www.webappsec.org/projects/honeypots/
SecurityFocus: Microsoft looks to "monkeys" to find Web threats
- Article discussing how Microsoft have developed a series of Windows XP clients, dubbed "honeymonkeys", that crawl the Web finding sites that use unreported vulnerabilities to compromise unsuspecting users.
- http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11173
French Honeynet Project
- The French Honeynet Project is a non-profit, all volunteer group dedicated to honeynet research.
- http://honeynet.rstack.org/
Honeyblog
- A weblog about with IT-security, honeypots, and honeynets.
- http://honeyblog.org/
HoneyC Low-Interaction Client Honeypot
- A platform independent low interaction client honeypot that allows identify rogue servers on the web.
- http://honeyc.sourceforge.net
The Bait and Switch Honeypot System
- A system that redirects all hostile traffic from your production systems to a honeypot that is a partial mirror of your production system. Once switched, the would-be hacker is unknowingly attacking your honeypot instead of the real data.
- http://baitnswitch.sourceforge.net/
UK Honeynet Project
- Provides information surrounding security threats and vulnerabilities active in the wild on UK networks. Home of Honeysnap, tool to analyse Honeywall pcap files and extract summary information.
- http://www.ukhoneynet.org/
New Zealand Honeynet project
- Papers and information on honeypots, especially application layer, e.g. PHP applications, from the New Zealand branch of the Honeynet project (http://www.honeynet.org/).
- http://www.nz-honeynet.org
Medium Interaction Honeypots
- Document outlines the weaknesses of different existing approaches to catch malware – especially bots – and shows how Medium Interaction Honeypots solves these problems.
- http://www.pixel-house.net/midinthp.pdf
Nepenthes
- A low interaction honeypot designed to emulate vulnerabilties worms use to spread, and to capture these worms.
- http://nepenthes.mwcollect.org/
SécurIT
- LogIDS, LogAgent, SécurIT Intrusion Detection Toolkit, and ComLog (a cmd.exe wrapper)
- http://securit.iquebec.com/
Anton Chuvakin Honeynet Reseach and Live Stats
- Live honeynet data, papers produced as a result of the honeynet research and other honeypot and honeynet related resources.
- http://www.chuvakin.com/honeynet/
Philippine Honeynet Project, Philippines
- Philippine Honeynet Project. Includes transcript of a VMWare Honeynet using Windows XP / Windows 2000 as the base OS.
- http://www.philippinehoneynet.org
Honeypots: Tracking Hackers
- White papers, mailing list and other resources related to honeypots.
- http://www.tracking-hackers.com/
The Strider HoneyMonkey Project
- Microsoft Research project to detect and analyze Web sites hosting malicious code using client-side honeypots.
- http://research.microsoft.com/HoneyMonkey/
KeyFocus - KF Sensor - Honey pot IDS
- A Windows honeypot designed to attract and detect hackers by simulating vulnerable system services and trojans.
- http://www.keyfocus.net/kfsensor/
Honeybee
- A tool for semi-automatically creating emulators of network server applications.
- http://www.thomas-apel.de/honeybee/
mwcollect
- A solution to collect worms and other autonomous spreading malware in a non-native environment like FreeBSD or Linux. Some people consider it a next generation honeypot, however computers running mwcollect cannot actually be infected with the malware.
- http://www.mwcollect.org
Know your Enemy: Phishing
- This white paper aims to provide practical information on the practice of phishing and draws on data collected by the German Honeynet Project and UK Honeynet Project.
- http://www.honeynet.org/papers/phishing/
thp - Tiny Honeypot
- A simple honey pot program based on iptables redirects and an xinetd listener.
- http://www.alpinista.org/thp/
SecurityFocus: Defeating Honeypots: System Issues, Part 1
- This two-part paper discusses how hackers discover, interact with, and sometimes disable honeypots at the system level and the application layer.
- http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1826
GHH - The "Google Hack" Honeypot
- GHH emulates a vulnerable web application by allowing itself to be indexed by search engines. It is hidden from casual page viewers, but is found through the use of a crawler or search engine.
- http://ghh.sourceforge.net/
Sombria Honeypot System
- A honeypot system and "Honeypot Exchange Program."
- http://www.lac.co.jp/business/sns/intelligence/sombria_e.html
Honeyd Control Center
- Honeyd configuration wizard, a SQL Interface, and reports.
- http://zope.org/Members/Ioan/HoneydCenter
Project Honey Pot: Distributed Spam Harvester Tracking Network
- A free, distributed, open-source project to help website administrators track, stop, and prosecute spam harvesters stealing email addresses from their sites.
- http://www.projecthoneypot.org/
Building a GenII Honeynet Gateway
- This is a short guide to build a GenII Honeynet Gateway, also called a Honeywall, under Linux, broaching the most common problems and providing several solutions and tips.
- http://www.honeynet.org.es/papers/honeywall/
Installing a Virtual Honeywall using VMware
- This paper explains how to go about configuring VMware to deploy a Honeywall, combining the advantages offered by the Honeywall CDROM and the virtual environments.
- http://www.honeynet.org.es/papers/vhwall/
Spampoison
- Website set up to deliver almost infinite numbers of bogus email addresses to email harvesting bots.
- http://www.spampoison.com/
The Team Cymru Darknet Project
- A Darknet is a portion of routed, allocated IP space in which no active services or servers seemingly reside. However, there is in fact include at least one server for real-time analysis or post-event network forensics.
- http://www.cymru.com/Darknet/
Spanish Honeynet Project
- Independent non-profit research organization of security professionals dedicated to information security focused on honeynet technologies.
- http://www.honeynet.org.es
spank
- A collection of programs to deploy, run and analyse network and host simulations in IP networks.
- http://spank.sourceforge.net/
WebMaven (Buggy Bank)
- WebMaven is an intentionally broken web application. It is intended to be used in a safe legal environment (your own host) as a training tool, as a basic benchmark platform to test web application security scanners and as a Honeypot.
- http://www.mavensecurity.com/webmaven
Impost
- Impost can either act as a honey pot and take orders from a Perl script controlling how it responds and communicates with connecting clients; or it can operate as a packet sniffer and monitor incoming data to specified destination port supplied by the com
- http://impost.sourceforge.net/
Basted
- A program that acts as a honeypot for spammers who use spambots to harvest email addresses from Web sites.
- http://basted.sourceforge.net/