The number of client-side attacks has grown significantly in the past few years shifting focus on poorly protected vulnerable clients. Just as the most known honeypot technologies enable research into server-side attacks, honeyclients allow the study of client-side attacks.
A complement to honeypots, a honeyclient is a tool designed to mimic the behavior of a user-driven network client application, such as a web browser, and be exploited by an attacker's content.
Thug is a Python low-interaction honeyclient aimed at mimicing the behavior of a web browser in order to detect and emulate malicious contents.
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Python 2.7 - http://www.python.org/
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Google V8 - http://code.google.com/p/v8/
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Beautiful Soup 4 - http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
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Html5lib - http://code.google.com/p/html5lib/
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Jsbeautifier - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/jsbeautifier
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Libemu - http://libemu.carnivore.it/
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Pylibemu 0.2.4 or later - https://github.com/buffer/pylibemu
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Pefile - http://code.google.com/p/pefile/
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Chardet - http://pypi.python.org/pypi/chardet
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httplib2 0.7.4 or later - http://code.google.com/p/httplib2/
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Cssutils 0.9.9 or later - http://pypi.python.org/pypi/cssutils/
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Zope interface - http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zope.interface
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Graphviz - http://www.graphviz.org/
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Pyparsing - http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/
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Pydot - https://code.google.com/p/pydot/
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Python-Magic - https://github.com/ahupp/python-magic
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Yara-Python - https://code.google.com/p/yara-project/
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MongoDB (optional) - http://www.mongodb.org/
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PyMongo (optional) - http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Python+Language+Center
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RabbitMQ (optional) - http://www.rabbitmq.com/
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Pika (optional) - https://github.com/pika/pika/
If not available as a package for your Linux distribution, the best way to install Beautiful Soup 4 is through `easy_install'. Beautiful Soup 4 is published through PyPi, so you can install it with easy_install or pip. The package name is beautifulsoup4, and the same package works on Python 2 and Python 3.
# easy_install beautifulsoup4
or alternatively
# pip install beautifulsoup4
In order to properly install V8 and PyV8 please follow the procedure described below.
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Checkout V8 source code from SVN
$ svn checkout http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ v8 -
Checkout PyV8 source code from SVN
$ svn checkout http://pyv8.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ pyv8 -
Set the environment variable V8_HOME with the V8 source code absolute path (you need to change the value reported below)
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Move to PyV8 source code directory
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Build and install (PyV8 setup.py will properly install both V8 and PyV8)
~/pyv8 $ python setup.py build ~/pyv8 $ sudo python setup.py install
In order to install the other required libraries and packages please follow installation procedures as specified in their documentation.
~/thug/src $ python thug.py -h
Synopsis:
Thug: Pure Python honeyclient implementation
Usage:
python thug.py [ options ] url
Options:
-h, --help Display this help information
-V, --version Display Thug version
-u, --useragent= Select a user agent (see below for values, default: winxpie60)
-e, --events= Enable comma-separated specified DOM events handling
-w, --delay= Set a maximum setTimeout/setInterval delay value (in milliseconds)
-n, --logdir= Set the log output directory
-o, --output= Log to a specified file
-r, --referer= Specify a referer
-p, --proxy= Specify a proxy (see below for format and supported schemes)
-l, --local Analyze a locally saved page
-x, --local-nofetch Analyze a locally saved page and prevent remote content fetching
-v, --verbose Enable verbose mode
-d, --debug Enable debug mode
-q, --quiet Disable console logging
-m, --no-cache Disable local web cache
-a, --ast-debug Enable AST debug mode (requires debug mode)
-t, --threshold Maximum pages to fetch
-E, --extensive Extensive fetch of linked pages
-T, --timeout Set the analysis timeout (in seconds)
Plugins:
-A, --adobepdf= Specify the Adobe Acrobat Reader version (default: 9.1.0)
-P, --no-adobepdf Disable Adobe Acrobat Reader plugin
-S, --shockwave= Specify the Shockwave Flash version (default: 10.0.64.0)
-R, --no-shockwave Disable Shockwave Flash plugin
-J, --javaplugin= Specify the JavaPlugin version (default: 1.6.0.32)
-K, --no-javaplugin Disable Java plugin
Classifier:
-Q, --urlclassifier Specify a list of additional (comma separated) URL classifier rule files
-W, --jsclassifier Specify a list of additional (comma separated) JS classifier rule files
Proxy Format:
scheme://[username:password@]host:port (supported schemes: http, http2, socks4, socks5)
Available User-Agents:
winxpie60 Internet Explorer 6.0 (Windows XP)
winxpie61 Internet Explorer 6.1 (Windows XP)
winxpie70 Internet Explorer 7.0 (Windows XP)
winxpie80 Internet Explorer 8.0 (Windows XP)
winxpchrome20 Chrome 20.0.1132.47 (Windows XP)
winxpfirefox12 Firefox 12.0 (Windows XP)
winxpsafari5 Safari 5.1.7 (Windows XP)
win2kie60 Internet Explorer 6.0 (Windows 2000)
win2kie80 Internet Explorer 8.0 (Windows 2000)
win7ie80 Internet Explorer 8.0 (Windows 7)
win7ie90 Internet Explorer 9.0 (Windows 7)
win7chrome20 Chrome 20.0.1132.47 (Windows 7)
win7firefox3 Firefox 3.6.13 (Windows 7)
win7safari5 Safari 5.1.7 (Windows 7)
osx10safari5 Safari 5.1.1 (MacOS X 10.7.2)
osx10chrome19 Chrome 19.0.1084.54 (MacOS X 10.7.4)
galaxy2chrome18 Chrome 18.0.1025.166 (Samsung Galaxy S II, Android 4.0.3)
galaxy2chrome25 Chrome 25.0.1364.123 (Samsung Galaxy S II, Android 4.0.3)
linuxchrome26 Chrome 26.0.1410.19 (Linux)
linuxfirefox19 Firefox 19.0 (Linux)
HPFeeds is the Honeynet Project central logging feature and it is enabled by default in Thug. If you don't want to report your events and samples, you can turn off HPFeeds by modifying the configuration file src/Logging/logging.conf.
If you are interested in the data collected by Thug instances, please contact me at angelo.dellaera@honeynet.org
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Mailing Lists
- Thug users https://public.honeynet.org/mailman/listinfo/thug
- Thug development https://public.honeynet.org/mailman/listinfo/thug-dev
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IRC
- Freenode #thug-dev
Moreover take a look at http://buffer.github.com/thug/ for additional details and documentation about the project. If you appreciate Thug please consider making a donation using Paypal (details at http://buffer.github.com/thug/).
Copyright (C) 2011-2013 Angelo Dell'Aera buffer@antifork.org
License: GNU General Public License, version 2 or later; see COPYING.txt included in this archive for details.