xandfury / heralding

Credentials catching honeypot

Heralding

About

Sometimes you just want a simple honeypot that collects credentials, nothing more. Heralding is that honeypot! Currently the following protocols are supported: ftp, telnet, ssh, http, https, pop3, pop3s, imap, imaps, smtp, vnc, postgresql and socks5.

You need Python 3.5.0 or higher.

Starting the honeypot

$ sudo heralding
 2018-04-25 20:34:37,186 (root) Initializing Heralding version 1.0.0
 2018-04-25 20:34:37,206 (heralding.reporting.file_logger) File logger started, using files: log_auth.csv and log_session.csv
 2018-04-25 20:34:37,207 (heralding.honeypot) Started Vnc capability listening on port 5900
 2018-04-25 20:34:37,207 (heralding.honeypot) Started Http capability listening on port 80
 2018-04-25 20:34:37,208 (heralding.honeypot) Started https capability listening on port 443
 2018-04-25 20:34:37,208 (heralding.honeypot) Started ftp capability listening on port 21
 2018-04-25 20:34:37,209 (heralding.honeypot) Started Pop3 capability listening on port 110
 2018-04-25 20:34:37,209 (heralding.honeypot) Started Pop3S capability listening on port 995
 2018-04-25 20:34:37,210 (heralding.honeypot) Started Imap capability listening on port 143
 2018-04-25 20:34:37,210 (heralding.honeypot) Started smtp capability listening on port 25
 2018-04-25 20:34:37,210 (heralding.honeypot) Started PostgreSQL capability listening on port 5432
 2018-04-25 20:34:37,210 (heralding.honeypot) Started Telnet capability listening on port 23
 2018-04-25 20:34:37,212 (root) Creating SSH server on 0.0.0.0, port 22
 2018-04-25 20:34:37,212 (heralding.honeypot) Started SSH capability listening on port 22
 2018-04-25 20:34:37,213 (heralding.honeypot) Started Socks5 capability listening on port 1080
 2018-04-25 20:34:37,214 (heralding.honeypot) Started Imaps capability listening on port 993
 2018-04-25 20:34:37,215 (root) Privileges dropped, running as nobody/nogroup.

Viewing the collected data

Heralding logs relevant data in two files, log_session.csv and log_auth.csv.

log_session.csv

This log file contains entries for all connections to the honeypot. The data includes timestamp, duration, IP information and the number of authentication attempts. Be aware that the log entry for a specific session will appear in the log fil after the session has ended.

$ tail log_session.csv timestamp,duration,session_id,source_ip,source_port,destination_ip,destination_port,protocol,auth_attempts 2017-12-26 20:38:19.683713,16,0841e3aa-241b-4da0-b85e-e5a5524cc836,127.0.0.1,53161,,23,telnet,3 2017-12-26 22:17:33.140742,6,d20c30c1-6765-4ab5-9144-a8be02385018,127.0.0.1,55149,,21,ftp,1 2017-12-26 22:17:48.088281,0,e0f50505-af93-4234-b82c-5477d8d88546,127.0.0.1,55151,,22,ssh,0 2017-12-26 22:18:06.284689,0,6c7d653f-d02d-4717-9973-d9b2e4a41d24,127.0.0.1,55153,,22,ssh,0 2017-12-26 22:18:13.043327,30,f3af2c8c-b63f-4873-ac7f-28c73b9e3e92,127.0.0.1,55155,,22,ssh,3

log_auth.csv

This log file contains information for all authentication attempts where it was possible to log a username and plaintext password. Log entries will appear in this file as soon as the password has been transmitted.

$ tail log_auth.csv timestamp,auth_id,session_id,source_ip,source_port,destination_port,protocol,username,password 2016-03-12 20:35:02.258198,192.168.2.129,51551,23,telnet,bond,james 2016-03-12 20:35:09.658593,192.168.2.129,51551,23,telnet,clark,P@SSw0rd123 2016-03-18 19:31:38.064700,192.168.2.129,53416,22,ssh,NOP_Manden,M@MS3 2016-03-18 19:31:38.521047,192.168.2.129,53416,22,ssh,guest,guest 2016-03-18 19:31:39.376768,192.168.2.129,53416,22,ssh,HundeMad,katNIPkat 2016-03-18 19:33:07.064504,192.168.2.129,53431,110,pop3,charles,N00P1SH 2016-03-18 19:33:12.504483,192.168.2.129,53431,110,pop3,NektarManden,mANDENnEktar 2016-03-18 19:33:24.952645,192.168.2.129,53433,21,ftp,Jamie,brainfreeze 2016-03-18 19:33:47.008562,192.168.2.129,53436,21,ftp,NektarKongen,SuperS@cretP4ssw0rd1 2016-03-18 19:36:56.077840,192.168.2.129,53445,21,ftp,Joooop,Pooop

Installing Heralding

For step by step instructions on how to install and run heralding in a Python virtual environment using Ubuntu, see this guide. Otherwise, the basic installation instructions are below.

To install the latest stable (well, semi-stable) version, use pip:

pip install heralding

Make sure that requirements and pip is installed. Simple way to do this on a Debian-based OS is:

sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

And finally start the honeypot:

mkdir tmp
cd tmp
sudo heralding

Pcaps

Want a seperate pcap for each heralding session? Sure, take a look at the Curisoum project. Make sure to enable Curisoum in Heralding.yml!