HoneyPot Exporter

Prometheus honeypot exporter

This minimal honeypot listen on networks and count each new connection or packet(for UDP), for TCP, the connection is closed immediately after the accept.

Building and running

Build

make

Capabilities

honeypot_exporter will need CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE capability to listen on privileged ports.

Configuration

Define listeners in the yaml config file :

listeners:
  - network: tcp
    address: ":4242"
  - network: udp
    address: ":4242"

• network must be in tcp, tcp4, tcp6, udp, udp4, udp6
• address follow the format bind_ip:port, to listen on any ipv4/6 leave bind_ip empty.

Running

./honeypot_exporter <flags>

Using Docker

docker rm -f honeypot-exporter
docker run -d \
  --name="honeypot-exporter" \
  --net="host" \
  --restart="unless-stopped" \
  --log-driver json-file --log-opt max-size=10m \
  -v $(pwd)/honeypot.yml:/honeypot.yml \
  intrinsec/honeypot-exporter-linux-amd64:v0.1.0 \
  --honeypot.config=/honeypot.yml

Metrics

...
# HELP honeypot_connections_total honeypot number of new connections or udp packets
# TYPE honeypot_connections_total counter
honeypot_connections_total{dst="127.0.0.1",port="4242",proto="tcp",src="127.0.0.1"} 2
honeypot_connections_total{dst="[::1]",port="4242",proto="tcp",src="[::1]"} 1
honeypot_connections_total{dst="[::]",port="4242",proto="udp",src="[::1]"} 13
...