Multi-snort and honeypot sensor management, uses a network of VMs, small footprint SNORT installations, stealthy dionaeas, and a centralized server for management.
For questions regarding 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.
Deployed sensors with intrusion detection software installed: Snort, Kippo, Conpot, and Dionaea.
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 < 8000 /ul>
- View a list of new attacks
- Manage snort rules: enable, disable, download
- The MHN server is supported on Ubuntu 12, Ubuntu 14, and Centos 6.7.
- Ubuntu 16 is not supported at this time.
- Other flavors/versions of Linux may work, but are generally not tested or supported.
- Login to your MHN server web app.
- Click the "Deploy" link in the upper left hand corner.
- Select a type of honeypot from the drop down menu (e.g. "Ubuntu 12.04 Dionaea").
- Copy the deployment command.
- Login to a honeypot server and run this command as root.
- That's it!
It also allows systems administrators to:
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-get install git -y
# on Centos or RHEL
$ sudo yum install -y git
Install MHN
$ cd /opt/
$ sudo git clone https://github.com/threatstream/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 each of the files below, make sure the proxy settings are added (and obviously change the user/pass/domain/port)
These need to be set for both the MHN server and the honey systems you intend to deploy on (assuming the honeypots are behind the firewall).
ALL_PROXY=http://user:password@your.corporate.proxy.hostname.com:8080
HTTP_PROXY=http://user:password@your.corporate.proxy.hostname.com:8080
HTTPS_PROXY=http://user:password@your.corporate.proxy.hostname.com:8080
http_proxy=http://user:password@your.corporate.proxy.hostname.com:8080
https_proxy=http://user:password@your.corporate.proxy.hostname.com:8080
Acquire::http::proxy "http://user:password@your.corporate.proxy.hostname.com:8080";
Acquire::https::proxy "http://user:password@your.corporate.proxy.hostname.com:8080";
Acquire::ftp::proxy "http://user:password@your.corporate.proxy.hostname.com:8080";
[http]
proxy = http://user:password@your.corporate.proxy.hostname.com:8080
These commands will make the above changes.
PROXY='http://user:password@your.corporate.proxy.hostname.com:8080'
grep -F "$PROXY" /etc/environment || cat >> /etc/environment <<EOF
ALL_PROXY=$PROXY
http_proxy=$PROXY
HTTP_PROXY=$PROXY
https_proxy=$PROXY
HTTPS_PROXY=$PROXY
EOF
cat > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/95proxies << EOF
Acquire::http::proxy "$PROXY";
Acquire::https::proxy "$PROXY";
Acquire::ftp::proxy "$PROXY";
EOF
git config --global --add http.proxy "$PROXY"
If done immediately before installing MHN or a honeypot, be sure to run this right after the above commands:
source /etc/environment
If email based password resets are not working for you, here is another method.
$ cd $MHN_HOME
$ source env/bin/activate
$ cd server
$ python manual_password_reset.py
Enter email address: YOUR_USER@YOUR_SITE.com
Enter new password:
Enter new password (again):
user found, updating password
MHN was designed to make scalable deployment of honeypots easier. Here are the steps for deploying a honeypot with MHN:
hpfeeds-logger can be used to integrate MHN with Splunk and ArcSight. Installation below.
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 SplunkUniveralForwarder.
cd /opt/mhn/scripts/
sudo ./install_hpfeeds-logger-arcsight.sh
This will log the events as CEF to /var/log/mhn-arcsight.log
The MHN server reports anonymized attack data back to Anomali, Inc. (formerly known as ThreatStream). If you are interested in this data please contact: modern-honey-network@googlegroups.com. 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 brought to you by the passionate folks at Anomali, Inc. 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 leverages and extends upon several awesome projects by the Honeynet project. Please show them your support by way of donation.
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