Nepenthes: low interaction honeypots
I've setup Nepenthes 0.1.7 and have been running it for a couple days now and have only gotten one random connection attempt (no exploit was attempted). I thought the Internet was much more hostile than this. It's listening on around 30 ports, yet when I scan it from the Internet, nepenthes only shows 8 connection attempts for some reason. Even still I would think I would of gotten some malware by now. Is something misconfigured or should I keep on waiting?
Here is the output when I run it. Code:
[ info mgr ] Loaded Nepenthes Configuration from "/etc/nepenthes/nepenthes.conf". |
Hello, you need to install libcap and then ./configure it with capabilities. Just do ./configure --help so you can see what options are available.
And Nepenthes 2.0 has been released, you should upgrade to that version. ///// |
I've just installed 0.2.0 on FreeBSD 6.2 before I read your post. Nepenthes documentation says that libcap is optional so I'm not sure I need that? libpcap version 0.9.4 is installed though... I didn't compile it with --enable-capabilities yet but ./configure --help says "Enable capabilities default=auto" However I'm still getting the compiled without capabilities error. Is it a serious error? Since upgrading to 0.2.0 I got someone who attempted to login via FTP, but that was it.
Edit: When I tried ./configure --enable-capabilities in the summary it provides it says - Support capabilities : no (check failed) |
Quote:
You can test your Nepenthes with this service scan. http://centralops.net/co/DomainDossier.aspx It should show hits on couple of ports. If there is no hits (hexdump messages) in logs then something is for sure wrong. |
Yeah I had scanned it with a couple different website based port scanners before and it only showed 8 connections yet I have around 30 ports listening. Is the internet really that much less hostile than people make it seem? I've been running nepenthes for a while now and have only gotten some basic port scans. I'm monitoring the traffic in Ethereal which confirms that I'm not getting much attack traffic. If I can't get malware from nepenthes, is there any other way to get it? I really want to do some behavior analysis.
|
Quote:
nepenthes.log (24h) 6,6k lines and without spam 4,3k logged_downloads.log (24h) 300 lines logged_submissions.log (24h) 131 lines Maybe your ISP is doing good work against viruses. Do you just need different malware for tests? There is public malware libraries where you can dl lots of different virii if you need some, but I suspect that you want live virus traffic and I cant help with that. //// |
Yeah I'd definitely like to get nepenthes working, but in the mean time I'd like to play around with some even if I have to download it manually. I'm not aware of any malware libraries, is there some that you recommend?
|
There is 66k viruses at this moment.
Edit: Url removed Code:
I'm checking it out now, thanks for your help! |
I'm checking it out now, thanks for your help!
|
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 03:26 PM. |