The Pentbox is a security kit containing diverse tools for streamlining PenTest conducting a task easily. It is programmed inwards Ruby as well as oriented to GNU / Linux, amongst back upwardly for Windows, MacOS as well as every systems where Ruby is installed. In this pocket-size article nosotros volition explicate how to develop a honeypot inwards Kali Linux. If yous don’t know what is a honeypot, “a honeypot is a figurer security machinery laid to detect, deflect, or, inwards around manner, counteract attempts at unauthorized purpose of data systems.”
Download Pentbox:
Simply type inwards the next ascendence inwards your lastly to download pentbox-1.8.
root@kali: # wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/pentbox18realised/pentbox-1.8.tar.gz
Uncompress pentbox files
Decompressing the file amongst the next command:
root@kali: # tar -zxvf pentbox-1.8.tar.gz
Run pentbox cerise script
Change directory into pentbox folder
root@kali: # cd pentbox-1.8/
Run pentbox using the next command
root@kali: # ./pentbox.rb
Setup a honeypot
Use selection 2 (Network Tools) as well as thence selection three (Honeypot).
Finally for start test, select selection 1 (Fast Auto Configuration)
This opens upwardly a honeypot inwards port 80. Simply opened upwardly browser as well as browse to http://192.168.160.128 (where 192.168.160.128 is your IP Address. You should encounter an Access denied error.
and inwards the lastly yous should encounter “HONEYPOT ACTIVATED ON PORT 80” followed yesteryear “INTRUSION ATTEMPT DETECTED”.
.Now, if yous produce the same steps only this fourth dimension select Option 2 (Manual Configuration), yous should encounter to a greater extent than extra options
Do the same steps only select port 22 this fourth dimension (SSH Port). Then produce a port forwarding inwards your domicile router to forrad port external port 22 to this machines’ port 22. Alternatively, laid it upwardly inwards a VPS inwards your cloud server.
You’d live amazed how many bots out at that spot scanning port SSH continuously. You know what yous produce then? You seek to hack them dorsum for the lulz!
Here’s a video of setting upwardly honeypot if video is your thing:
