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        Awesome Honeypots 
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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Honeypots
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Database Honeypots
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Delilah - Elasticsearch Honeypot written in Python (originally from Novetta).
 
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ESPot - Elasticsearch honeypot written in NodeJS, to capture every attempts to exploit CVE-2014-3120.
 
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ElasticPot - An Elasticsearch Honeypot.
 
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Elastic honey - Simple Elasticsearch Honeypot.
 
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MongoDB-HoneyProxy - MongoDB honeypot proxy.
 
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NoSQLpot - Honeypot framework built on a NoSQL-style database.
 
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mysql-honeypotd - Low interaction MySQL honeypot written in C.
 
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MysqlPot - MySQL honeypot, still very early stage.
 
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pghoney - Low-interaction Postgres Honeypot.
 
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sticky_elephant - Medium interaction postgresql honeypot.
 
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RedisHoneyPot - High Interaction Honeypot Solution for Redis protocol.
 
 
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Web honeypots
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Express honeypot - RFI & LFI honeypot using nodeJS and express.
 
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EoHoneypotBundle - Honeypot type for Symfony2 forms.
 
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Glastopf - Web Application Honeypot.
 
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Google Hack Honeypot - Designed to provide reconnaissance against attackers that use search engines as a hacking tool against your resources.
 
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HellPot - Honeypot that tries to crash the bots and clients that visit it's location.
 
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Laravel Application Honeypot - Simple spam prevention package for Laravel applications.
 
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Nodepot - NodeJS web application honeypot.
 
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PasitheaHoneypot - RestAPI honeypot.
 
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Servletpot - Web application Honeypot.
 
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Shadow Daemon - Modular Web Application Firewall / High-Interaction Honeypot for PHP, Perl, and Python apps.
 
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StrutsHoneypot - Struts Apache 2 based honeypot as well as a detection module for Apache 2 servers.
 
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WebTrap - Designed to create deceptive webpages to deceive and redirect attackers away from real websites.
 
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basic-auth-pot (bap) - HTTP Basic Authentication honeypot.
 
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bwpot - Breakable Web applications honeyPot.
 
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django-admin-honeypot - Fake Django admin login screen to notify admins of attempted unauthorized access.
 
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drupo - Drupal Honeypot.
 
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honeyhttpd - Python-based web server honeypot builder.
 
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honeyup - An uploader honeypot designed to look like poor website security.
 
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owa-honeypot - A basic flask based Outlook Web Honey pot.
 
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phpmyadmin_honeypot - Simple and effective phpMyAdmin honeypot.
 
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shockpot - WebApp Honeypot for detecting Shell Shock exploit attempts.
 
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smart-honeypot - PHP Script demonstrating a smart honey pot.
 
- Snare/Tanner - successors to Glastopf
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Snare - Super Next generation Advanced Reactive honeypot.
 
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Tanner - Evaluating SNARE events.
 
 
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stack-honeypot - Inserts a trap for spam bots into responses.
 
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tomcat-manager-honeypot - Honeypot that mimics Tomcat manager endpoints. Logs requests and saves attacker's WAR file for later study
 
- WordPress honeypots
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HonnyPotter - WordPress login honeypot for collection and analysis of failed login attempts.
 
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HoneyPress - Python based WordPress honeypot in a Docker container.
 
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wp-smart-honeypot - WordPress plugin to reduce comment spam with a smarter honeypot.
 
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wordpot - WordPress Honeypot.
 
 
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Python-Honeypot - OWASP Honeypot, Automated Deception Framework.
 
 
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Service Honeypots
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ADBHoney - Low interaction honeypot that simulates an Android device running Android Debug Bridge (ADB) server process.
 
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AMTHoneypot - Honeypot for Intel's AMT Firmware Vulnerability CVE-2017-5689.
 
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ddospot - NTP, DNS, SSDP, Chargen and generic UDP-based amplification DDoS honeypot.
 
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dionaea - Home of the dionaea honeypot.
 
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dhp - Simple Docker Honeypot server emulating small snippets of the Docker HTTP API.
 
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DolosHoneypot - SDN (software defined networking) honeypot.
 
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Ensnare - Easy to deploy Ruby honeypot.
 
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honeycomb_plugins - Plugin repository for Honeycomb, the honeypot framework by Cymmetria.
 
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honeyntp - NTP logger/honeypot.
 
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honeypot-camera - Observation camera honeypot.
 
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honeypot-ftp - FTP Honeypot.
 
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honeypots - 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).
 
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honeytrap - Advanced Honeypot framework written in Go that can be connected with other honeypot software.
 
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HoneyPy - Low interaction honeypot.
 
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Honeygrove - Multi-purpose modular honeypot based on Twisted.
 
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Honeyport - Simple honeyport written in Bash and Python.
 
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Honeyprint - Printer honeypot.
 
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Lyrebird - Modern high-interaction honeypot framework.
 
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MICROS honeypot - Low interaction honeypot to detect CVE-2018-2636 in the Oracle Hospitality Simphony component of Oracle Hospitality Applications (MICROS).
 
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node-ftp-honeypot - FTP server honeypot in JS.
 
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pyrdp - RDP man-in-the-middle and library for Python 3 with the ability to watch connections live or after the fact.
 
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rdppot - RDP honeypot
 
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RDPy - Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) honeypot implemented in Python.
 
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SMB Honeypot - High interaction SMB service honeypot capable of capturing wannacry-like Malware.
 
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Tom's Honeypot - Low interaction Python honeypot.
 
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troje - Honeypot that runs each connection with the service within a separate LXC container.
 
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WebLogic honeypot - Low interaction honeypot to detect CVE-2017-10271 in the Oracle WebLogic Server component of Oracle Fusion Middleware.
 
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WhiteFace Honeypot - Twisted based honeypot for WhiteFace.
 
 
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Distributed Honeypots
 
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Anti-honeypot stuff
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kippo_detect - Offensive component that detects the presence of the kippo honeypot.
 
 
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ICS/SCADA honeypots
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Conpot - ICS/SCADA honeypot.
 
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GasPot - Veeder Root Gaurdian AST, common in the oil and gas industry.
 
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SCADA honeynet - Building Honeypots for Industrial Networks.
 
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gridpot - Open source tools for realistic-behaving electric grid honeynets.
 
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scada-honeynet - Mimics many of the services from a popular PLC and better helps SCADA researchers understand potential risks of exposed control system devices.
 
 
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Other/random
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CitrixHoneypot - Detect and log CVE-2019-19781 scan and exploitation attempts.
 
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Damn Simple Honeypot (DSHP) - Honeypot framework with pluggable handlers.
 
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dicompot - DICOM Honeypot.
 
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IPP Honey - A honeypot for the Internet Printing Protocol.
 
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Log4Pot - A honeypot for the Log4Shell vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228).
 
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Masscanned - 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.
 
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medpot -  HL7 / FHIR honeypot.
 
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NOVA - Uses honeypots as detectors, looks like a complete system.
 
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OpenFlow Honeypot (OFPot) - Redirects traffic for unused IPs to a honeypot, built on POX.
 
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OpenCanary - Modular and decentralised honeypot daemon that runs several canary versions of services that alerts when a service is (ab)used.
 
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ciscoasa_honeypot A low interaction honeypot for the Cisco ASA component capable of detecting CVE-2018-0101, a DoS and remote code execution vulnerability.
 
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miniprint - A medium interaction printer honeypot.
 
 
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Botnet C2 tools
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Hale - Botnet command and control monitor.
 
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dnsMole - Analyses DNS traffic and potentionaly detect botnet command and control server activity, along with infected hosts.
 
 
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IPv6 attack detection tool
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ipv6-attack-detector - Google Summer of Code 2012 project, supported by The Honeynet Project organization.
 
 
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Dynamic code instrumentation toolkit
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Frida - Inject JavaScript to explore native apps on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android.
 
 
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Tool to convert website to server honeypots
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HIHAT - Transform arbitrary PHP applications into web-based high-interaction Honeypots.
 
 
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Malware collector
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Kippo-Malware - Python script that will download all malicious files stored as URLs in a Kippo SSH honeypot database.
 
 
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Distributed sensor deployment
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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.
 
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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.
 
 
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Network Analysis Tool
 
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Log anonymizer
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LogAnon - Log anonymization library that helps having anonymous logs consistent between logs and network captures.
 
 
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Low interaction honeypot (router back door)
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Honeypot-32764 - Honeypot for router backdoor (TCP 32764).
 
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WAPot - Honeypot that can be used to observe traffic directed at home routers.
 
 
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honeynet farm traffic redirector
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Honeymole - Deploy multiple sensors that redirect traffic to a centralized collection of honeypots.
 
 
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HTTPS Proxy
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mitmproxy - Allows traffic flows to be intercepted, inspected, modified, and replayed.
 
 
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System instrumentation
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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.
 
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Fibratus - Tool for exploration and tracing of the Windows kernel.
 
 
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Honeypot for USB-spreading malware
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Ghost-usb - Honeypot for malware that propagates via USB storage devices.
 
 
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Data Collection
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Kippo2MySQL - Extracts some very basic stats from Kippo’s text-based log files and inserts them in a MySQL database.
 
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Kippo2ElasticSearch - Python script to transfer data from a Kippo SSH honeypot MySQL database to an ElasticSearch instance (server or cluster).
 
 
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Passive network audit framework parser
 
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VM monitoring and tools
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Antivmdetect - Script to create templates to use with VirtualBox to make VM detection harder.
 
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VMCloak - Automated Virtual Machine Generation and Cloaking for Cuckoo Sandbox.
 
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vmitools - C library with Python bindings that makes it easy to monitor the low-level details of a running virtual machine.
 
 
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Binary debugger
 
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Mobile Analysis Tool
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Androguard - Reverse engineering, Malware and goodware analysis of Android applications and more.
 
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APKinspector - Powerful GUI tool for analysts to analyze the Android applications.
 
 
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Low interaction honeypot
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Honeyperl - Honeypot software based in Perl with plugins developed for many functions like : wingates, telnet, squid, smtp, etc.
 
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T-Pot - All in one honeypot appliance from telecom provider T-Mobile
 
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beelzebub - A secure honeypot framework, extremely easy to configure by yaml 🚀
 
 
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Honeynet data fusion
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HFlow2 - Data coalesing tool for honeynet/network analysis.
 
 
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Server
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Amun - Vulnerability emulation honeypot.
 
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Artillery - Open-source blue team tool designed to protect Linux and Windows operating systems through multiple methods.
 
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Bait and Switch - Redirects all hostile traffic to a honeypot that is partially mirroring your production system.
 
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Bifrozt - Automatic deploy bifrozt with ansible.
 
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Conpot - Low interactive server side Industrial Control Systems honeypot.
 
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Heralding - Credentials catching honeypot.
 
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HoneyWRT - Low interaction Python honeypot designed to mimic services or ports that might get targeted by attackers.
 
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Honeyd - See honeyd tools.
 
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Honeysink - Open source network sinkhole that provides a mechanism for detection and prevention of malicious traffic on a given network.
 
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Hontel - Telnet Honeypot.
 
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KFSensor - Windows based honeypot Intrusion Detection System (IDS).
 
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LaBrea - Takes over unused IP addresses, and creates virtual servers that are attractive to worms, hackers, and other denizens of the Internet.
 
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MTPot - Open Source Telnet Honeypot, focused on Mirai malware.
 
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SIREN - Semi-Intelligent HoneyPot Network - HoneyNet Intelligent Virtual Environment.
 
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TelnetHoney - Simple telnet honeypot.
 
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UDPot Honeypot - Simple UDP/DNS honeypot scripts.
 
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Yet Another Fake Honeypot (YAFH) - Simple honeypot written in Go.
 
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arctic-swallow - Low interaction honeypot.
 
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fapro - Fake Protocol Server.
 
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glutton - All eating honeypot.
 
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go-HoneyPot - Honeypot server written in Go.
 
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go-emulators - Honeypot Golang emulators.
 
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honeymail - SMTP honeypot written in Golang.
 
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honeytrap - Low-interaction honeypot and network security tool written to catch attacks against TCP and UDP services.
 
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imap-honey - IMAP honeypot written in Golang.
 
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mwcollectd - Versatile malware collection daemon, uniting the best features of nepenthes and honeytrap.
 
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potd - 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.
 
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portlurker - Port listener in Rust with protocol guessing and safe string display.
 
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slipm-honeypot - Simple low-interaction port monitoring honeypot.
 
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telnet-iot-honeypot - Python telnet honeypot for catching botnet binaries.
 
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telnetlogger - Telnet honeypot designed to track the Mirai botnet.
 
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vnclowpot - Low interaction VNC honeypot.
 
 
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IDS signature generation
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Honeycomb - Automated signature creation using honeypots.
 
 
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Lookup service for AS-numbers and prefixes
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CC2ASN - Simple lookup service for AS-numbers and prefixes belonging to any given country in the world.
 
 
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Data Collection / Data Sharing
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HPfriends - Honeypot data-sharing platform.
 
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HPFeeds - Lightweight authenticated publish-subscribe protocol.
 
 
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Central management tool
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PHARM - Manage, report, and analyze your distributed Nepenthes instances.
 
 
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Network connection analyzer
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Impost - Network security auditing tool designed to analyze the forensics behind compromised and/or vulnerable daemons.
 
 
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Honeypot deployment
 
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Honeypot extensions to Wireshark
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Wireshark Extensions - Apply Snort IDS rules and signatures against packet capture files using Wireshark.
 
 
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Client
 
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Honeypot
 
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PDF document inspector
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peepdf - Powerful Python tool to analyze PDF documents.
 
 
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Hybrid low/high interaction honeypot
 
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SSH Honeypots
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Blacknet - Multi-head SSH honeypot system.
 
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Cowrie - Cowrie SSH Honeypot (based on kippo).
 
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DShield docker - Docker container running cowrie with DShield output enabled.
 
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endlessh - SSH tarpit that slowly sends an endless banner. (docker image)
 
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HonSSH - Logs all SSH communications between a client and server.
 
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HUDINX - Tiny interaction SSH honeypot engineered in Python to log brute force attacks and, most importantly, the entire shell interaction performed by the attacker.
 
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Kippo - Medium interaction SSH honeypot.
 
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Kippo_JunOS - Kippo configured to be a backdoored netscreen.
 
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Kojoney2 - Low interaction SSH honeypot written in Python and based on Kojoney by Jose Antonio Coret.
 
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Kojoney - Python-based Low interaction honeypot that emulates an SSH server implemented with Twisted Conch.
 
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Longitudinal Analysis of SSH Cowrie Honeypot Logs - Python based command line tool to analyze cowrie logs over time.
 
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LongTail Log Analysis @ Marist College - Analyzed SSH honeypot logs.
 
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Malbait - Simple TCP/UDP honeypot implemented in Perl.
 
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MockSSH - Mock an SSH server and define all commands it supports (Python, Twisted).
 
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cowrie2neo - Parse cowrie honeypot logs into a neo4j database.
 
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go-sshoney - SSH Honeypot.
 
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go0r - Simple ssh honeypot in Golang.
 
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gohoney - SSH honeypot written in Go.
 
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hived - Golang-based honeypot.
 
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hnypots-agent) - SSH Server in Go that logs username and password combinations.
 
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honeypot.go - SSH Honeypot written in Go.
 
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honeyssh - Credential dumping SSH honeypot with statistics.
 
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hornet - Medium interaction SSH honeypot that supports multiple virtual hosts.
 
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ssh-auth-logger - Low/zero interaction SSH authentication logging honeypot.
 
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ssh-honeypot - Fake sshd that logs IP addresses, usernames, and passwords.
 
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ssh-honeypot - Modified version of the OpenSSH deamon that forwards commands to Cowrie where all commands are interpreted and returned.
 
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ssh-honeypotd - Low-interaction SSH honeypot written in C.
 
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sshForShits - Framework for a high interaction SSH honeypot.
 
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sshesame - Fake SSH server that lets everyone in and logs their activity.
 
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sshhipot - High-interaction MitM SSH honeypot.
 
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sshlowpot - Yet another no-frills low-interaction SSH honeypot in Go.
 
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sshsyrup - Simple SSH Honeypot with features to capture terminal activity and upload to asciinema.org.
 
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twisted-honeypots - SSH, FTP and Telnet honeypots based on Twisted.
 
 
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Distributed sensor project
 
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A pcap analyzer
 
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Network traffic redirector
 
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Honeypot Distribution with mixed content
 
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Honeypot sensor
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Honeeepi - Honeypot sensor on a Raspberry Pi based on a customized Raspbian OS.
 
 
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File carving
 
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Behavioral analysis tool for win32
 
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Live CD
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DAVIX - The DAVIX Live CD.
 
 
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Spamtrap
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Mail::SMTP::Honeypot - Perl module that appears to provide the functionality of a standard SMTP server.
 
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Mailoney - SMTP honeypot, Open Relay, Cred Harvester written in python.
 
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SendMeSpamIDS.py - Simple SMTP fetch all IDS and analyzer.
 
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Shiva - Spam Honeypot with Intelligent Virtual Analyzer.
 
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SpamHAT - Spam Honeypot Tool.
 
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Spamhole
 
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honeypot - The Project Honey Pot un-official PHP SDK.
 
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spamd
 
 
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Commercial honeynet
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Cymmetria Mazerunner - Leads attackers away from real targets and creates a footprint of the attack.
 
 
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Server (Bluetooth)
 
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Dynamic analysis of Android apps
 
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Dockerized Low Interaction packaging
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Docker honeynet - Several Honeynet tools set up for Docker containers.
 
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Dockerized Thug - Dockerized Thug to analyze malicious web content.
 
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Dockerpot - Docker based honeypot.
 
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Manuka - Docker based honeypot (Dionaea and Kippo).
 
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honey_ports - Very simple but effective docker deployed honeypot to detect port scanning in your environment.
 
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mhn-core-docker - Core elements of the Modern Honey Network implemented in Docker.
 
 
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Network analysis
 
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SIP Server
 
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SIP
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SentryPeer - Protect your SIP Servers from bad actors.
 
 
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IOT Honeypot
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HoneyThing - TR-069 Honeypot.
 
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Kako - Honeypots for a number of well known and deployed embedded device vulnerabilities.
 
 
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Honeytokens
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CanaryTokens - Self-hostable honeytoken generator and reporting dashboard; demo version available at CanaryTokens.org.
 
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Honeybits - 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.
 
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Honeyλ (HoneyLambda) - Simple, serverless application designed to create and monitor URL honeytokens, on top of AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway.
 
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dcept - Tool for deploying and detecting use of Active Directory honeytokens.
 
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honeyku - Heroku-based web honeypot that can be used to create and monitor fake HTTP endpoints (i.e. honeytokens).
 
 
Network and Artifact Analysis
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Sandbox
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Argos - Emulator for capturing zero-day attacks.
 
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COMODO automated sandbox
 
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Cuckoo - Leading open source automated malware analysis system.
 
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Pylibemu - Libemu Cython wrapper.
 
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RFISandbox - PHP 5.x script sandbox built on top of funcall.
 
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dorothy2 - Malware/botnet analysis framework written in Ruby.
 
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imalse - Integrated MALware Simulator and Emulator.
 
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libemu - Shellcode emulation library, useful for shellcode detection.
 
 
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Sandbox-as-a-Service
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Hybrid Analysis - Free malware analysis service powered by Payload Security that detects and analyzes unknown threats using a unique Hybrid Analysis technology.
 
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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.
 
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VirusTotal - Analyze suspicious files and URLs to detect types of malware, and automatically share them with the security community.
 
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malwr.com - Free malware analysis service and community.
 
 
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Front Ends
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DionaeaFR - Front Web to Dionaea low-interaction honeypot.
 
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Django-kippo - Django App for kippo SSH Honeypot.
 
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Shockpot-Frontend - Full featured script to visualize statistics from a Shockpot honeypot.
 
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Tango - Honeypot Intelligence with Splunk.
 
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Wordpot-Frontend - Full featured script to visualize statistics from a Wordpot honeypot.
 
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honeyalarmg2 - Simplified UI for showing honeypot alarms.
 
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honeypotDisplay - Flask website which displays data gathered from an SSH Honeypot.
 
 
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Visualization
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Acapulco - Automated Attack Community Graph Construction.
 
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Afterglow Cloud
 
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Afterglow
 
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Glastopf Analytics - Easy honeypot statistics.
 
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HoneyMalt - Maltego tranforms for mapping Honeypot systems.
 
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HoneyMap - Real-time websocket stream of GPS events on a fancy SVG world map.
 
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HoneyStats - Statistical view of the recorded activity on a Honeynet.
 
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HpfeedsHoneyGraph - Visualization app to visualize hpfeeds logs.
 
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IVRE - 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!
 
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Kippo stats - Mojolicious app to display statistics for your kippo SSH honeypot.
 
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Kippo-Graph - Full featured script to visualize statistics from a Kippo SSH honeypot.
 
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The Intelligent HoneyNet - Create actionable information from honeypots.
 
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ovizart - Visual analysis for network traffic.
 
 
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