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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Contents
Commercial Honepots
- honerix - Honerix is a distributed system for capturing web-based attacks. Honerix works by simulating vulnerable applications, with the goal of pushing attackers into deploying their malicious payload.
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Database Honeypots
Acra - Effective SQL database protection suite: strong selective encryption, SQL injections prevention, intrusion detection system based on using honeypots/poison records in the database.
Delilah - An Elasticsearch Honeypot written in Python.
ESPot - An Elasticsearch honeypot written in NodeJS, to capture every attempts to exploit CVE-2014-3120.
Elastic honey - A Simple Elasticsearch Honeypot.
HoneyMysql - A simple Mysql honeypot project.
MongoDB-HoneyProxy - A MongoDB honeypot proxy.
NoSQLpot - The NoSQL Honeypot Framework.
mysql-honeypotd - Low interaction MySQL honeypot written in C.
MysqlPot - A mysql honeypot, still very very early stage.
pghoney - Low-interaction Postgres Honeypot.
sticky_elephant - medium interaction postgresql honeypot.
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.
Blockchain honeypots
Web honeypots
- Krawl - Lightweight deception server and anti‑crawler that deploys realistic fake web applications with low‑hanging vulnerabilities and randomly generated decoy data.
- Cloud Active Defense - Cloud active defense lets you deploy decoys right into your cloud applications, putting adversaries into a dilemma: to hack or not to hack?
- Express honeypot - RFI & LFI honeypot using nodeJS and express.
- EoHoneypotBundle - Honeypot type for Symfony2 forms.
- FCaptcha - Self-hosted CAPTCHA that acts as an inline honeypot, detecting bots and vision AI agents through 40+ behavioral signals, headless browser fingerprinting, and SHA-256 proof of work.
- 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.
- Lophiid - Distributed web application honeypot to interact with large scale exploitation attempts.
- 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.
- flux - Dynamic Web Honeypot with Canary Token Integration that is being actively maintained by LLMs.
- 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.
- nginx-honeypot - A simple honeypot based on NGINX configuration that logs and blocks bots scanning for vulnerabilities.
- 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.
- WebDecoy - Zero-configuration WordPress plugin with invisible honeypot fields, behavioral analysis, and SHA-256 proof-of-work challenges to detect bots, headless browsers, and automation frameworks.
- wordpot - WordPress Honeypot.
- Python-Honeypot - OWASP Honeypot, Automated Deception Framework.
Service Honeypots
- ADBHoney - Low interaction honeypot that simulates an Android device running Android Debug Bridge (ADB) server process.
- AMTHoneypot - Honeypot for Intel's AMT Firmware Vulnerability CVE-2017-5689.
- ddospot - NTP, DNS, SSDP, Chargen and generic UDP-based amplification DDoS honeypot.
- dionaea - Home of the dionaea honeypot.
- dhp - Simple Docker Honeypot server emulating small snippets of the Docker HTTP API.
- DolosHoneypot - SDN (software defined networking) honeypot.
- Ensnare - Easy to deploy Ruby honeypot.
- GenAIPot - The first A.I based open source honeypot. supports POP3 and SMTP protocols and generates content using A.I based on user description.
- Helix - K8s API Honeypot with Active Defense Capabilities.
- honeycomb_plugins - Plugin repository for Honeycomb, the honeypot framework by Cymmetria.
- [honeydb] (https://honeydb.io/downloads) - Multi-service honeypot that is easy to deploy and configure. Can be configured to send interaction data to to HoneyDB's centralized collectors for access via REST API.
- honeyntp - NTP logger/honeypot.
- honeypot-camera - Observation camera honeypot.
- honeypot-ftp - FTP Honeypot.
- 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).
- honeytrap - Advanced Honeypot framework written in Go that can be connected with other honeypot software.
- HoneyPy - Low interaction honeypot.
- Honeygrove - Multi-purpose modular honeypot based on Twisted.
- Honeyport - Simple honeyport written in Bash and Python.
- Honeyprint - Printer honeypot.
- Lyrebird - Modern high-interaction honeypot framework.
- MICROS honeypot - Low interaction honeypot to detect CVE-2018-2636 in the Oracle Hospitality Simphony component of Oracle Hospitality Applications (MICROS).
- node-ftp-honeypot - FTP server honeypot in JS.
- pyrdp - RDP man-in-the-middle and library for Python 3 with the ability to watch connections live or after the fact.
- rdppot - RDP honeypot
- RDPy - Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) honeypot implemented in Python.
- SMB Honeypot - High interaction SMB service honeypot capable of capturing wannacry-like Malware.
- Tom's Honeypot - Low interaction Python honeypot.
- Trapster Commmunity - Modural and easy to install Python Honeypot, with comprehensive alerting
- troje - Honeypot that runs each connection with the service within a separate LXC container.
- WebLogic honeypot - Low interaction honeypot to detect CVE-2017-10271 in the Oracle WebLogic Server component of Oracle Fusion Middleware.
- WhiteFace Honeypot - Twisted based honeypot for WhiteFace.
Distributed Honeypots
Anti-honeypot stuff
- canarytokendetector - Tool for detection and nullification of Thinkst CanaryTokens
- honeydet - Signature based honeypot detector tool written in Golang
- kippo_detect - Offensive component that detects the presence of the kippo honeypot.
- potsnitch - Honeypot detection toolkit with protocol fingerprinting for 25+ honeypot types.
ICS/SCADA honeypots
- Conpot - ICS/SCADA honeypot.
- GasPot - Veeder Root Gaurdian AST, common in the oil and gas industry.
- SCADA honeynet - Building Honeypots for Industrial Networks.
- gridpot - Open source tools for realistic-behaving electric grid honeynets.
- scada-honeynet - Mimics many of the services from a popular PLC and better helps SCADA researchers understand potential risks of exposed control system devices.
- HoneyPLC - Mimics multiple PLC devices, including Siemenens and Rockewell
Space/Satellite honeypots
- HoneySat - Mimics multiple satellite missions
Other/random
- CitrixHoneypot - Detect and log CVE-2019-19781 scan and exploitation attempts.
- Damn Simple Honeypot (DSHP) - Honeypot framework with pluggable handlers.
- dicompot - DICOM Honeypot.
- IPP Honey - A honeypot for the Internet Printing Protocol.
- Log4Pot - A honeypot for the Log4Shell vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228).
- 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.
- medpot - HL7 / FHIR honeypot.
- NOVA - Uses honeypots as detectors, looks like a complete system.
- OpenFlow Honeypot (OFPot) - Redirects traffic for unused IPs to a honeypot, built on POX.
- OpenCanary - Modular and decentralised honeypot daemon that runs several canary versions of services that alerts when a service is (ab)used.
- ciscoasa_honeypot A low interaction honeypot for the Cisco ASA component capable of detecting CVE-2018-0101, a DoS and remote code execution vulnerability.
- miniprint - A medium interaction printer honeypot.
- FortiGate SSL-VPN Honeypot - Mimics FortiGate SSL-VPN devices to capture brute-force attempts, symlink exploit probes, and malicious IP telemetry.
Botnet C2 tools
- Hale - Botnet command and control monitor.
- dnsMole - Analyses DNS traffic and potentionaly detect botnet command and control server activity, along with infected hosts.
IPv6 attack detection tool
- ipv6-attack-detector - Google Summer of Code 2012 project, supported by The Honeynet Project organization.
Dynamic code instrumentation toolkit
- Frida - Inject JavaScript to explore native apps on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android.
Tool to convert website to server honeypots
- HIHAT - Transform arbitrary PHP applications into web-based high-interaction Honeypots.
Malware collector
- Kippo-Malware - Python script that will download all malicious files stored as URLs in a Kippo SSH honeypot database.
Distributed sensor deployment
- 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.
- 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.
Network Analysis Tool
Log anonymizer
- LogAnon - Log anonymization library that helps having anonymous logs consistent between logs and network captures.
Dynamic Deception Tool
- Mimicry - Mimicry is a dynamic deception tool that actively deceives an attacker during exploitation and post-exploitation.
Low interaction honeypot (router back door)
- Honeypot-32764 - Honeypot for router backdoor (TCP 32764).
- WAPot - Honeypot that can be used to observe traffic directed at home routers.
honeynet farm traffic redirector
- Honeymole - Deploy multiple sensors that redirect traffic to a centralized collection of honeypots.
HTTPS Proxy
- mitmproxy - Allows traffic flows to be intercepted, inspected, modified, and replayed.
System instrumentation
- 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.
- Fibratus - Tool for exploration and tracing of the Windows kernel.
Honeypot for USB-spreading malware
- Ghost-usb - Honeypot for malware that propagates via USB storage devices.
Data Collection
- Kippo2MySQL - Extracts some very basic stats from Kippo’s text-based log files and inserts them in a MySQL database.
- Kippo2ElasticSearch - Python script to transfer data from a Kippo SSH honeypot MySQL database to an ElasticSearch instance (server or cluster).
Passive network audit framework parser
VM monitoring and tools
- Antivmdetect - Script to create templates to use with VirtualBox to make VM detection harder.
- VMCloak - Automated Virtual Machine Generation and Cloaking for Cuckoo Sandbox.
- vmitools - C library with Python bindings that makes it easy to monitor the low-level details of a running virtual machine.
Binary debugger
Mobile Analysis Tool
- Androguard - Reverse engineering, Malware and goodware analysis of Android applications and more.
- APKinspector - Powerful GUI tool for analysts to analyze the Android applications.
Low interaction honeypot
- Honeyperl - Honeypot software based in Perl with plugins developed for many functions like : wingates, telnet, squid, smtp, etc.
- T-Pot - All in one honeypot appliance from telecom provider T-Mobile
- beelzebub - A secure honeypot framework, extremely easy to configure by yaml 🚀
Honeynet data fusion
- HFlow2 - Data coalesing tool for honeynet/network analysis.
Server
- Amun - Vulnerability emulation honeypot.
- Artillery - Open-source blue team tool designed to protect Linux and Windows operating systems through multiple methods.
- Bait and Switch - Redirects all hostile traffic to a honeypot that is partially mirroring your production system.
- Bifrozt - Automatic deploy bifrozt with ansible.
- Conpot - Low interactive server side Industrial Control Systems honeypot.
- Heralding - Credentials catching honeypot.
- HoneyWRT - Low interaction Python honeypot designed to mimic services or ports that might get targeted by attackers.
- Honeyd - See honeyd tools.
- Honeysink - Open source network sinkhole that provides a mechanism for detection and prevention of malicious traffic on a given network.
- Hontel - Telnet Honeypot.
- KFSensor - Windows based honeypot Intrusion Detection System (IDS).
- LaBrea - Takes over unused IP addresses, and creates virtual servers that are attractive to worms, hackers, and other denizens of the Internet.
- MTPot - Open Source Telnet Honeypot, focused on Mirai malware.
- SIREN - Semi-Intelligent HoneyPot Network - HoneyNet Intelligent Virtual Environment.
- TelnetHoney - Simple telnet honeypot.
- UDPot Honeypot - Simple UDP/DNS honeypot scripts.
- Yet Another Fake Honeypot (YAFH) - Simple honeypot written in Go.
- arctic-swallow - Low interaction honeypot.
- fapro - Fake Protocol Server.
- glutton - All eating honeypot.
- go-HoneyPot - Honeypot server written in Go.
- go-emulators - Honeypot Golang emulators.
- honeymail - SMTP honeypot written in Golang.
- honeytrap - Low-interaction honeypot and network security tool written to catch attacks against TCP and UDP services.
- imap-honey - IMAP honeypot written in Golang.
- mwcollectd - Versatile malware collection daemon, uniting the best features of nepenthes and honeytrap.
- 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.
- portlurker - Port listener in Rust with protocol guessing and safe string display.
- slipm-honeypot - Simple low-interaction port monitoring honeypot.
- telnet-iot-honeypot - Python telnet honeypot for catching botnet binaries.
- telnetlogger - Telnet honeypot designed to track the Mirai botnet.
- vnclowpot - Low interaction VNC honeypot.
IDS signature generation
- Honeycomb - Automated signature creation using honeypots.
Lookup service for AS-numbers and prefixes
- CC2ASN - Simple lookup service for AS-numbers and prefixes belonging to any given country in the world.
Data Collection / Data Sharing
- HPfriends - Honeypot data-sharing platform.
- HPFeeds - Lightweight authenticated publish-subscribe protocol.
Central management tool
- PHARM - Manage, report, and analyze your distributed Nepenthes instances.
Network connection analyzer
- Impost - Network security auditing tool designed to analyze the forensics behind compromised and/or vulnerable daemons.
Honeypot deployment
- honeyfs - Tool to create artificial file systems for medium/high interaction honeypots.
- Modern Honeynet Network - Streamlines deployment and management of secure honeypots.
Honeypot extensions to Wireshark
- Wireshark Extensions - Apply Snort IDS rules and signatures against packet capture files using Wireshark.
Client
Honeypot
PDF document inspector
- peepdf - Powerful Python tool to analyze PDF documents.
Hybrid low/high interaction honeypot
SSH Honeypots
- Blacknet - Multi-head SSH honeypot system.
- Cowrie - Cowrie SSH Honeypot (based on kippo).
- DShield docker - Docker container running cowrie with DShield output enabled.
- endlessh - SSH tarpit that slowly sends an endless banner. (docker image)
- HonSSH - Logs all SSH communications between a client and server.
- HUDINX - Tiny interaction SSH honeypot engineered in Python to log brute force attacks and, most importantly, the entire shell interaction performed by the attacker.
- InnerWarden - Security agent with built-in SSH and HTTP honeypots featuring an LLM-powered interactive fake shell that captures credentials and attacker commands.
- Kippo - Medium interaction SSH honeypot.
- Kippo_JunOS - Kippo configured to be a backdoored netscreen.
- Kojoney2 - Low interaction SSH honeypot written in Python and based on Kojoney by Jose Antonio Coret.
- Kojoney - Python-based Low interaction honeypot that emulates an SSH server implemented with Twisted Conch.
- Longitudinal Analysis of SSH Cowrie Honeypot Logs - Python based command line tool to analyze cowrie logs over time.
- LongTail Log Analysis @ Marist College - Analyzed SSH honeypot logs.
- Malbait - Simple TCP/UDP honeypot implemented in Perl.
- MockSSH - Mock an SSH server and define all commands it supports (Python, Twisted).
- cowrie2neo - Parse cowrie honeypot logs into a neo4j database.
- go-sshoney - SSH Honeypot.
- go0r - Simple ssh honeypot in Golang.
- gohoney - SSH honeypot written in Go.
- hived - Golang-based honeypot.
- hnypots-agent) - SSH Server in Go that logs username and password combinations.
- honeypot.go - SSH Honeypot written in Go.
- honeyssh - Credential dumping SSH honeypot with statistics.
- hornet - Medium interaction SSH honeypot that supports multiple virtual hosts.
- ssh-auth-logger - Low/zero interaction SSH authentication logging honeypot.
- ssh-honeypot - Fake sshd that logs IP addresses, usernames, and passwords.
- ssh-honeypot - Modified version of the OpenSSH deamon that forwards commands to Cowrie where all commands are interpreted and returned.
- ssh-honeypotd - Low-interaction SSH honeypot written in C.
- sshForShits - Framework for a high interaction SSH honeypot.
- sshesame - Fake SSH server that lets everyone in and logs their activity.
- sshhipot - High-interaction MitM SSH honeypot.
- sshlowpot - Yet another no-frills low-interaction SSH honeypot in Go.
- sshsyrup - Simple SSH Honeypot with features to capture terminal activity and upload to asciinema.org.
- twisted-honeypots - SSH, FTP and Telnet honeypots based on Twisted.
Distributed sensor project
A pcap analyzer
Network traffic redirector
Honeypot Distribution with mixed content
Honeypot sensor
- Honeeepi - Honeypot sensor on a Raspberry Pi based on a customized Raspbian OS.
File carving
Behavioral analysis tool for win32
Live CD
- DAVIX - The DAVIX Live CD.
Spamtrap
Commercial honeynet
- Cymmetria Mazerunner - Leads attackers away from real targets and creates a footprint of the attack.
Server (Bluetooth)
Dynamic analysis of Android apps
Dockerized Low Interaction packaging
- Docker honeynet - Several Honeynet tools set up for Docker containers.
- Dockerized Thug - Dockerized Thug to analyze malicious web content.
- Dockerpot - Docker based honeypot.
- Manuka - Docker based honeypot (Dionaea and Kippo).
- honey_ports - Very simple but effective docker deployed honeypot to detect port scanning in your environment.
- mhn-core-docker - Core elements of the Modern Honey Network implemented in Docker.
Network analysis
SIP Server
SIP
- SentryPeer - Protect your SIP Servers from bad actors.
IOT Honeypot
- HoneyThing - TR-069 Honeypot.
- Kako - Honeypots for a number of well known and deployed embedded device vulnerabilities.
Honeytokens
- CanaryTokens - Self-hostable honeytoken generator and reporting dashboard; demo version available at CanaryTokens.org.
- 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.
- Honeyλ (HoneyLambda) - Simple, serverless application designed to create and monitor URL honeytokens, on top of AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway.
- dcept - Tool for deploying and detecting use of Active Directory honeytokens.
- honeyku - Heroku-based web honeypot that can be used to create and monitor fake HTTP endpoints (i.e. honeytokens).
- Tracebit Community Edition - online free canary tokens (AWS, SSH, Email, Web)
Network and Artifact Analysis
Sandbox
- Argos - Emulator for capturing zero-day attacks.
- COMODO automated sandbox
- Cuckoo - Leading open source automated malware analysis system.
- Pylibemu - Libemu Cython wrapper.
- RFISandbox - PHP 5.x script sandbox built on top of funcall.
- dorothy2 - Malware/botnet analysis framework written in Ruby.
- imalse - Integrated MALware Simulator and Emulator.
- libemu - Shellcode emulation library, useful for shellcode detection.
Sandbox-as-a-Service
- Hybrid Analysis - Free malware analysis service powered by Payload Security that detects and analyzes unknown threats using a unique Hybrid Analysis technology.
- 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.
- VirusTotal - Analyze suspicious files and URLs to detect types of malware, and automatically share them with the security community.
- malwr.com - Free malware analysis service and community.
Front Ends
- DionaeaFR - Front Web to Dionaea low-interaction honeypot.
- Django-kippo - Django App for kippo SSH Honeypot.
- Shockpot-Frontend - Full featured script to visualize statistics from a Shockpot honeypot.
- Tango - Honeypot Intelligence with Splunk.
- Wordpot-Frontend - Full featured script to visualize statistics from a Wordpot honeypot.
- honeyalarmg2 - Simplified UI for showing honeypot alarms.
- honeypotDisplay - Flask website which displays data gathered from an SSH Honeypot.
Visualization
- Acapulco - Automated Attack Community Graph Construction.
- Afterglow Cloud
- Afterglow
- Glastopf Analytics - Easy honeypot statistics.
- HoneyMalt - Maltego tranforms for mapping Honeypot systems.
- HoneyMap - Real-time websocket stream of GPS events on a fancy SVG world map.
- HoneyStats - Statistical view of the recorded activity on a Honeynet.
- HpfeedsHoneyGraph - Visualization app to visualize hpfeeds logs.
- 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!
- Kippo stats - Mojolicious app to display statistics for your kippo SSH honeypot.
- Kippo-Graph - Full featured script to visualize statistics from a Kippo SSH honeypot.
- The Intelligent HoneyNet - Create actionable information from honeypots.
- ovizart - Visual analysis for network traffic.
- SSH-Radar - Real-time monitoring and visualization of failed SSH login attempts with geolocation and Grafana dashboards.
Guides
A curated, categorized list of honeypot software and related tools used by security researchers to deceive attackers, log their behavior, and study exploitation attempts.