Re: Honeypot webserver question

Guillaume Vissian <[email protected]> Mon, 4 Jul 2005 10:52:08 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.honeypots
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I don't know any "plug and play" honey webserver  but you can easily
build one... with some correct logs rules and a secured (i mean
chrooted ) install of the webserver you will see all move from the
attacker, and after building a behavior model. And finally find some
0-days and such...

G.

2005/7/4, ChayoteMu <[email protected]>:
> I tried to google info on this question but couldn't find anything
> specific to what I'm after so I'm sending this out to the list. Thanks
> in advance for any responses.
> Question:
> Is it possible to run a web server on a honeypot that will serve the
> pages and work as a regular server except with the extras of being a
> honeypot, ie logging and prevention measures? I'm asking because I had
> an idea for a pair of webservers behind an IDS/Firewall. Regular
> traffic goes to the primary web server but suspicious traffic gets
> dumped onto the honeypot server. This lets false positives view the
> site but not have access to any other services (FTP or anything else
> on the real server) and gives a good idea of what they'd try to do to
> the clean server so you could catch 0-days and such. And if you're
> bored you can update the honeyserver semi-regularly to get all the new
> goodies on there for attackers to go after (with some changes
> obviously). I know you can emulate web servers with various methods
> but I'm curious if there's somebody/group doing that now or a tool
> anyone knows of for it.
> 
> --
> "To catch a thief, think like a thief. To catch a master thief, be a
> master thief."
>