HoneyPots

 Honeypots

Definition :-
"Honeypot is a trap set to detect, deflect, or in some manner counteract attempts at unauthorized use of information systems."  -Wikipedia

"Honeypot is an information system resource whose value lies in unauthorized or illicit use of that resource."  -Lance Spitzner

Unlike firewalls or Intrusion Detection Systems, honeypots do not solve a specific problem. Instead, they are a highly flexible tool that comes in many shapes and sizes. They can do everything from detecting encrypted attacks in IPv6 networks to capturing the latest in on-line credit card fraud. Its is this flexibility that gives honeypots their true power. It is also this flexibility that can make them challenging to define and understand.

Types of Honeypots :-
Low-Interaction Honeypot:- Low-interaction honeypots have limited interaction, they normally work by emulating services and operating systems. Attacker activity is limited to the level of emulation by the honeypot. These honeypots tend to be easier to deploy and maintain, with minimal risk. Examples of low-interaction honeypots include Specter, Honeyd, and KFSensor.

High-Interaction Honeypot:- High-interaction honeypots are different, they are usually complex solutions as they involve real operating systems and applications. Nothing is emulated, we give attackers the real thing. The advantages with such a solution are two fold. First, you can capture extensive amounts of information. By giving attackers real systems to interact with, you can learn the full extent of their behavior. The second advantage is high-interaction honeypots make no assumptions on how an attacker will behave. Instead, they provide an open environment that captures all activity. However, this also increases the risk of the honeypot as attackers can use these real operating system to attack non-honeypot systems. As result, additional technologies have to be implement that prevent the attacker from harming other non-honeypot systems. However, they can be more complex to deploy and maintain. Examples of high-interaction honeypots include Symantec Decoy Server and Honeynets.

Typical Honeypot Model

Honeypot Softwares :-

• Argos by Georgios Portokalidis, Herbert Bos
• Back Officer Friendly by NFR Security
• Bait N Switch Honeypot by Team Violating
• BigEye by Team Violating
• FakeAP by Black Alchemy Enterprises
• GHH - The "Google Hack" Honeypot by Ryan McGeehan et al
• HOACD by Honeynet.BR Project
• HoneyBOT by Atomic Software Solutions
• Honeyd by Niels Provos
• Honeyd Development site by Niels Provos
• Honeyd for Windows by Michael A. Davis (port)
• Honeynet Security Console for Windows 2000/XP by Activeworx, Inc.
• HoneyPerl by Brazilian Honeypot Project (HoneypotBR)
• HoneyPoint by MicroSolved, Inc.
• Honeywall CD-ROM by The Honeynet Project
• HoneyWeb by Kevin Tim
• Impost by sickbeatz
• Jackpot Mailswerver by Jack Cleaver
• KFSensor by Keyfocus
• Kojoney by Jose Antonio Coret
• LaBrea Tarpit by Tom Liston
• NetBait by NetBait Inc.
• NetFacade by Verizon
• OpenBSD's spamd by OpenBSD Team
• ProxyPot by Alan Curry
• Sandtrap by Sandstorm Enterprises, Inc.
• Single-Honeypot by Luis Wong and Louis Freeze
• Smoke Detector by Palisade Systems Inc.
• SMTPot.py by Karl A. Krueger
• Spamhole by Dr. Uid
• Spampot.py by Neale Pikett
• Specter by Netsec
• SWiSH by Canned Ham
• Symantec Decoy Server (formerly ManTrap) by Symantec
• Tiny Honeypot (thp) by George Bakos
• The Deception Toolkit by Fred Cohen & Associates
• User-Mode Linux (UML) by Jeff Dike