Open software—
Material reviewed: Repository metadataCritical readingWeb application honeypot recording interactions with simulated attack surfaces.
ApplicationHoneypot
Open software—
Material reviewed: Repository documentationPerl script that queries Glastopf's SQLite database for statistics. It supports analysis of a web-application honeypot but is not described as a honeypot itself.
Application
Case study—
Material reviewed: Public pageCritical readingCounterCraft describes a bank API digital twin that attracted an attack within 30 days; outcome attributed to the vendor.
ApplicationCloudDecoy
Open software—
Material reviewed: Repository documentationDecoy software documenting bounded simulated responses for Kubernetes and Docker APIs, Ollama and other AI APIs, a misconfigured kubelet, and HTTP probes; it records TCP and UDP interactions without replying. It supports synthetic Secret honeytokens.
CloudNetworkHoneypotHoneytoken
Product—
Material reviewed: Repository documentationHFish is a free, community-oriented honeypot product developed by Beijing Microstep Online Technology Co., Ltd., aimed at enterprise scenarios such as internal lateral-movement detection, external threat perception, and intelligence generation. Its documentation states it supports over 90 honeypot service types, a B/S architecture with a server (管理端) and node/client (节点端) component, and multiple alert channels (email, syslog, webhook, WeChat Work, DingTalk, Feishu).
NetworkApplicationHoneypotDecoy
Community or education—
Material reviewed: Repository documentationA curated GitHub list aggregating open-source honeypot resources (database, web, WordPress, service, ICS/SCADA honeypots), network and data analysis tools, and deployment guides, organized by category.
NetworkApplicationHoneypot
Framework or guide—
Material reviewed: Repository documentationHoneycomb is an open-source honeypot framework created by Cymmetria that allows running honeypots with various integrations via a public plugin library, and makes it easy to write new honeypot services.
NetworkApplicationHoneypot
Open software—
Material reviewed: Repository documentationWeb honeypot documented to create and monitor fake HTTP endpoints whose URLs can be distributed as honeytokens; it is designed for Heroku but can also run on a self-hosted server.
ApplicationCloudHoneypotHoneytoken
Open software—
Material reviewed: Repository documentationServerless application that creates and monitors fake HTTP endpoints for use as URL honeytokens; its documentation describes deployment with AWS Lambda and API Gateway.
ApplicationCloudHoneytokenDecoy
Open software—
Material reviewed: Repository documentationLaravel package that adds a hidden field and encrypted timestamp to forms to identify likely bot submissions.
ApplicationHoneypot
Open software—
Material reviewed: Repository documentationA module for pH7CMS that presents a fake admin panel to lure and log attackers, leveraging the CMS's built-in analytics tracking.
ApplicationHoneypotDecoy
Open software—
Material reviewed: Repository documentationDocumented ExpressionEngine extension that adds a hidden honeypot field to comment and user forms to block automated spam submissions without using a CAPTCHA.
ApplicationHoneypot
Open software—
Material reviewed: Repository documentationA Drupal module that adds a hidden honeypot field and a time-based restriction to forms in order to detect and block automated spam submissions.
ApplicationHoneypot
Open software—
Material reviewed: Repository documentationExample of using honeypots with a Standalone model and a model with the Joomla CMS for PHP applications.
ApplicationHoneypot
Open software—
Material reviewed: Repository documentationHoneyPress is a WordPress honeypot shipped in a Docker container, documented with a Flask/Python reimplementation simulating a WordPress install, logging access via Nginx, and storing captured payloads (including IP, user-agent, and commands) in a MongoDB database.
ApplicationHoneypot
Open software—
Material reviewed: Repository documentationA simple web application honeypot that uses SimpleHTTPServer to serve a retro-styled HTML page, intended to attract and log basic web interactions.
ApplicationHoneypot
Open software—
Material reviewed: Repository documentationSystem integrating multiple client honeypots and a crawler to process URLs and detect malicious websites.
ApplicationHoneypot
Open software—
Material reviewed: Repository documentationA bash script for CentOS that combines Apache, Cloudflare, and a CMS (mainly WordPress) to detect malicious requests in server logs and temporarily block the attacker's real IP via the Cloudflare API.
ApplicationNetworkDecoy
Open software—
Material reviewed: Repository documentationhttpbl is a Python client package for the Project Honeypot Http:BL API, allowing queries of threat scores and visitor types for IP addresses.
NetworkApplicationHoneypot
Open software—
Material reviewed: Repository documentationAn instant messenger honeypot; the documentation only describes it as 'Instant messenger honeypot', without detailing protocols or detection mechanisms.
ApplicationNetworkHoneypot
Open software—
Material reviewed: Repository documentationScripts to install a server and multiple honeypots, process their logs, and display information about attack attempts. The documentation lists SSH, web, and industrial-system honeypots.
NetworkApplicationHoneypot
Open software—
Material reviewed: Repository documentationUnofficial PHP SDK for Project Honey Pot that queries the HttpBL API to detect bad visitors and generates Quicklinks pointing to an external honeypot. It is a client/integration SDK and does not itself implement a honeypot.
Application
Open software—
Material reviewed: Repository documentationHoneypot for detecting and interacting with web application exploitation attempts. Its documentation describes backend-managed sensors and static, scripted, or AI-assisted responses.
ApplicationHoneypotAdversary engagement
Open software—
Material reviewed: Repository documentationLow-interaction honeypot documented to simulate a MICROS server, detect attempts to exploit CVE-2018-2636, and report them.
ApplicationHoneypot