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lynis
Lynis - Security auditing tool for Linux, macOS, and UNIX-based systems. Assists with compliance testing (HIPAA/ISO27001/PCI DSS) and system hardening. Agentless, and installation optional. -
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Wazuh
Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform. Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads. -
CrowdSec
CrowdSec - the open-source and participative security solution offering crowdsourced protection against malicious IPs and access to the most advanced real-world CTI. -
Suricata
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine developed by the OISF and the Suricata community. -
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OSSEC
OSSEC is an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System that performs log analysis, file integrity checking, policy monitoring, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response. -
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Password Pusher
🔐 Securely share sensitive information with automatic expiration & deletion after a set number of views or duration. Track who, what and when with full audit logs. -
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SpamAssassin
Read-only mirror of Apache SpamAssassin. Submit patches to https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/. Do not send pull requests -
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NOTE: For more recent development, check out Michel Oosterhof's fork
Kippo
Kippo is a medium interaction SSH honeypot designed to log brute force attacks and, most importantly, the entire shell interaction performed by the attacker.
Kippo is inspired, but not based on Kojoney.
Demo
Some interesting logs from a live Kippo installation below (viewable within a web browser with the help of Ajaxterm). Note that some commands may have been improved since these logs were recorded.
Features
Some interesting features:
- Fake filesystem with the ability to add/remove files. A full fake filesystem resembling a Debian 5.0 installation is included
- Possibility of adding fake file contents so the attacker can 'cat' files such as /etc/passwd. Only minimal file contents are included
- Session logs stored in an UML Compatible format for easy replay with original timings
- Just like Kojoney, Kippo saves files downloaded with wget for later inspection
- Trickery; ssh pretends to connect somewhere, exit doesn't really exit, etc
Requirements
Software required:
- An operating system (tested on Debian, CentOS, FreeBSD and Windows 7)
- Python 2.5+
- Twisted 8.0 to 15.1.0
- PyCrypto
- Zope Interface
See Wiki for some installation instructions.
How to run it?
Edit kippo.cfg to your liking and start the honeypot by running:
./start.sh
start.sh is a simple shell script that runs Kippo in the background using twistd. Detailed startup options can be given by running twistd manually. For example, to run Kippo in foreground:
twistd -y kippo.tac -n
By default Kippo listens for ssh connections on port 2222. You can change this, but do not change it to 22 as it requires root privileges. Use port forwarding instead. (More info: MakingKippoReachable).
Files of interest:
- dl/ - files downloaded with wget are stored here
- log/kippo.log - log/debug output
- log/tty/ - session logs
- utils/playlog.py - utility to replay session logs
- utils/createfs.py - used to create fs.pickle
- fs.pickle - fake filesystem
- honeyfs/ - file contents for the fake filesystem - feel free to copy a real system here
Is it secure?
Maybe. See FAQ
I have some questions!
I am might be reachable via e-mail: desaster at gmail dot com, or as desaster on the #honeypots channel in the freenode IRC network.