TekTip ep11 - Kippo SSH Honeypot

http://code.google.com/p/kippo/

Description: Kippo is a medium interaction SSH honeypot designed to log brute force attacks and, most importantly, the entire shell interaction performed by the attacker

Uses:  Alert to potiential threats, watch how hackers operate, gather exploits and malware

Installation:

Follow steps @ http://bruteforce.gr/installing-kippo-ssh-honeypot-on-ubuntu.html

http://bruteforce.gr/honeybox Honeybox is a distro that contains numerous honeypot software, all on a single box.  Additionally, the distro preconfigures the honeypot to utilize some of the many enhancements Brutforce Labs have created for these honeypots.

*If at home, to make this accessible from the internet you will need to enable port forwarding at your modem, and potientially your Virtual Machine software.

Usage:

kippo/kippo.cfg : Main configuration file

kippo/honeyfs :  This is the fake filesystem that wll be presented to the user.

kippo/data/userdb.txt :  This file allows us to modify the username and password combinations that will work when attackers attempt to log into the honeypot.

kippo/log/tty/ : In this directory you will find the logs for each session established by attackers.

./start.sh

- will start kippo

/kippo/utils/playlog.py : Replay an attacker session from the kippo/log/tty directory.

Usage: playlog.py [-bfhi] [-m secs] [-w file] <tty-log-file>

 -f             keep trying to read the log until it's closed

 -m <seconds>   maximum delay in seconds, to avoid boredom or fast-forward to the end. (default is 3.0)

-i             show the input stream instead of output

 -b             show both input and output streams

 -c             colorify the output stream based on what streams are being received

 -h             display this help

i.e.

~/kippo/utils/playlog.py 20121012-115031-8544.log

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Comments

[Ion]

Hello Ian. Great video and thanks for the mention about BruteForce Lab. You should also explore the MySQL logging capabilities of Kippo (check: http://bruteforce.gr/logging-kippo-events-using-mysql-db.html), so you can visualize the results with a tool like Kippo-Graph. You'll find it interesting, I assure you. About the HoneyBox project, its renamed to HoneyDrive (just FYI) and I plan to update it very soon with new software, or create a desktop version (lightweight, probably xubuntu or lubuntu based) so GUI-tools can be included as well. Let me know if you have any suggestions, etc. Have a nice day.