Modern Honey Network

MHN is a centralized server for management and data collection of honeypots. MHN allows you to deploy sensors quickly and to collect data immediately, viewable from a neat web interface. Honeypot deploy scripts include several common honeypot technologies, including Snort, Cowrie, Dionaea, and glastopf, among others.

For questions regarding troubleshooting your installation, please review the MHN Troubleshooting Guide, search past questions on the modern-honey-network Google Group, or send emails to modern-honey-network@googlegroups.com.

MHN is a Flask application that exposes an HTTP API that honeypots can use to:

• Download a deploy script
• Connect and register
• Download snort rules
• Send intrusion detection logs

It also allows system administrators to:

• View a list of new attacks
• Manage snort rules: enable, disable, download

• The MHN server is supported on Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04, and Centos 6.9.
• Other versions of Linux may work but are generally not tested or supported.

Note: if you run into trouble during the install, please checkout the troubleshooting guide on the wiki. If you only want to experiment with MHN on some virtual machines, please check out the Getting up and Running with Vagrant guide on the wiki.

Install Git

# on Debian or Ubuntu
$ sudo apt install git -y

Install MHN

$ cd /opt/
$ sudo git clone https://github.com/pwnlandia/mhn.git
$ cd mhn/

Run the following script to complete the installation. While this script runs, you will be prompted for some configuration options. See below for how this looks.

$ sudo ./install.sh

===========================================================
MHN Configuration
===========================================================
Do you wish to run in Debug mode?: y/n n
Superuser email: YOUR_EMAIL@YOURSITE.COM
Superuser password: 
Server base url ["http://1.2.3.4"]: 
Honeymap url ["http://1.2.3.4:3000"]:
Mail server address ["localhost"]: 
Mail server port [25]: 
Use TLS for email?: y/n n
Use SSL for email?: y/n n
Mail server username [""]: 
Mail server password [""]: 
Mail default sender [""]: 
Path for log file ["mhn.log"]: 

If the installation scripts ran successfully, you should have a number of services running on your MHN server. See below for checking these.

user@precise64:/opt/mhn/scripts$ sudo /etc/init.d/nginx status
 * nginx is running
user@precise64:/opt/mhn/scripts$ sudo /etc/init.d/supervisor status
 is running
user@precise64:/opt/mhn/scripts$ sudo supervisorctl status
geoloc                           RUNNING    pid 31443, uptime 0:00:12
honeymap                         RUNNING    pid 30826, uptime 0:08:54
hpfeeds-broker                   RUNNING    pid 10089, uptime 0:36:42
mhn-celery-beat                  RUNNING    pid 29909, uptime 0:18:41
mhn-celery-worker                RUNNING    pid 29910, uptime 0:18:41
mhn-collector                    RUNNING    pid 7872,  uptime 0:18:41
mhn-uwsgi                        RUNNING    pid 29911, uptime 0:18:41
mnemosyne                        RUNNING    pid 28173, uptime 0:30:08

For directions on running MHN behind a web proxy, follow the directions in the wiki.

By default MHN will run without HTTPS, to configure your installation to use SSL certificates directions can be found in the wiki.

Running MHN in docker is not officially supported, but it might work. The container takes a few minutes to start at the first launch to initialize. Splunk, ArcSight and ELK are not yet supported in Docker.

$ docker build -t mhn .

$ docker run -d -p 10000:10000 -p 80:80 -p 3000:3000 -p 8089:8089 \
$ --restart unless-stopped \
$ --name mhn \
$ -e SUPERUSER_EMAIL=root@localhost \
$ -e SUPERUSER_PASSWORD=password \
$ -e SERVER_BASE_URL="http://mhn" \
$ -e HONEYMAP_URL="http://mhn:3000" \
$ mhn

SUPERUSER_EMAIL
SUPERUSER_PASSWORD
SERVER_BASE_URL
HONEYMAP_URL
DEBUG_MODE
SMTP_HOST
SMTP_PORT
SMTP_TLS
SMTP_SSL
SMTP_USERNAME
SMTP_PASSWORD
SMTP_SENDER
MHN_LOG

MHN was designed to make scalable deployment of honeypots easier. Here are the steps for deploying a honeypot with MHN:

1. Login to your MHN server web app.
2. Click the "Deploy" link in the upper left hand corner.
3. Select a type of honeypot from the drop down menu (e.g. "Ubuntu Dionaea").
4. Copy the deployment command.
5. Login to a honeypot server and run this command as root.

If the deploy script successfully completes you should see the new sensor listed under your deployed sensor list. For a full list of supported sensors, check the list here: List of Supported Sensors

hpfeeds-logger can be used to integrate MHN with Splunk and ArcSight.

cd /opt/mhn/scripts/
sudo ./install_hpfeeds-logger-splunk.sh

This will log the events as key/value pairs to /var/log/mhn-splunk.log. This log should be monitored by the SplunkUniversalForwarder.

cd /opt/mhn/scripts/
sudo ./install_hpfeeds-logger-arcsight.sh

This will log the events as CEF to /var/log/mhn-arcsight.log

NOTICE This section is out of date. Community data is not collected by Anomali although MHN still attempts to send this data to Anomali servers.

The MHN server reports anonymized attack data back to Anomali, Inc. (formerly known as ThreatStream). If you are interested in viewing this data, get details in the wiki. This data reporting can be disabled by running the following command from the MHN server after completing the initial installation steps outlined above: /opt/mhn/scripts/disable_collector.sh

MHN is an open source project that relies on community involvement. Please check out our troubleshooting guide on the wiki. We will also lend a hand, if needed. Find us at: modern-honey-network@googlegroups.com.

MHN was originally created by Anomali, Inc.

MHN leverages and extends upon several awesome projects by the Honeynet project. Please show them your support by way of donation.

Modern Honeypot Network

This program free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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