Wordpot Honeypot

The CommunityHoneyNetwork Wordpot Honeypot is an implementation of @gbrindisi's Wordpot, configured to report logged attacks to the CommunityHoneyNetwork management server.

"Wordpot is a Wordpress honeypot which detects probes for plugins, themes, timthumb and other common files used to fingerprint a wordpress installation."

Prerequisites

The default deployment model uses Docker and Docker Compose to deploy containers for the project's tools, and so, require the following:

• Docker >= 1.13.1
• Docker Compose >= 1.15.0

Please ensure the user on the system installing the honeypot is in the local docker group

Please see your system documentation for adding a user to the docker group.

Important Note!

The sysconfig files, as well as the docker-compose.yml files below are intended to help you understand the various options. While they may serve as a basis for users with advanced deployment needs, most users should default to the configuration files provided by the deployment scripts in the CHN web interface.

Example wordpot docker-compose.yml

version: '2'
services:
    wordpot:
        image: stingar/wordpot:1.8
        volumes:
            - ./wordpot.sysconfig:/etc/default/wordpot
            - ./wordpot:/etc/wordpot
        ports:
            - "8080:8080"

Example wordpot.sysconfig file

Prior to starting, Wordpot will parse some options from /etc/default/wordpot for Debian-based systems or containers. The following is an example config file:

# This file is read from /etc/default/wordpot
#
# This can be modified to change the default setup of the wordpot unattended installation

DEBUG=false

# IP Address of the honeypot
# Leaving this blank will default to the docker container IP
IP_ADDRESS=

# CHN Server api to register to
CHN_SERVER="http://<IP.OR.NAME.OF.YOUR.CHNSERVER>"

# Server to stream data to
FEEDS_SERVER="<IP.OR.NAME.OF.YOUR.HPFEEDS>"
FEEDS_SERVER_PORT=10000

# Deploy key from the FEEDS_SERVER administrator
# This is a REQUIRED value
DEPLOY_KEY=

# Registration information file
# If running in a container, this needs to persist
WORDPOT_JSON="/etc/wordpot/wordpot.json

# Wordpress options
WORDPRESS_PORT=8080

Configuration Options

The following options are supported in the /etc/default/wordpot file:

• DEBUG: (boolean) Enable more verbose output to the console
• IP_ADDRESS: IP address of the host running the honeypot container
• CHN_SERVER: (string) The URL of the CHN Server used to register honeypot.
• FEEDS_SERVER: (string) The hostname or IP address of the HPFeeds server to send logged events. This will likely be the CHN management server.
• FEEDS_SERVER_PORT: (integer) The HPFeeds port. Default is 10000.
• DEPLOY_KEY: (string; REQUIRED) The deploy key provided by the feeds server administration for registration during the first startup. This key is required for registration.
• WORDPOT_JSON: (string) The location to store the registration information returned from the HPFeeds server.
• WORDPRESS_PORT: (integer) The web server port for the Wordpot daemon. In containerized applications, this is inside the container, and the port can still be mapped to a different port on the host.

Acknowlegements

CommunityHoneyNetwork Wordpot is an adaptation of @gbrindisi's Wordpot Wordpot software and Threatstream's Modern Honey Network Wordpot & HPFeeds work, among other contributors and collaborators.

License

Wordpot is licensed under the ISC License (ISC)

The ThreatStream implementation of Wordpot with HPFeeds, upon which CommunityHoneyNetwork is based is licensed under the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2.1

The CommunityHoneyNetwork Wordpot deployment model and code is therefore also licensed under the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2.1