HoneyBot – Capture, Upload And Analyze Network Traffic

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HoneyBot is a set of scripts and libraries for capturing and analyzing packet captures with PacketTotal.com. Currently, this library provides three scripts:

  • capture-and-analyze.py – Capture on an interface for some period of time, and upload capture for analysis.
  • upload-and-analyze.py – Upload and analyze multiple packets captures to PacketTotal.com.
  • trigger-and-analyze.py – Listen for unknown connections, and begin capturing when one is made. Captures are automatically uploaded and analyzed.

Warning about HoneyBot

Any packet capture uploaded to becomes publicly available upon completed analysis.

Limitations of HoneyBot

  • Only .pcap and .pcapng files supported.
  • 6 MB analysis max.

For more information visit PacketTotal.com.

Use Cases

  1. Set your honeypot up to stream network traffic directly to PacketTotal.com for analysis.
  2. Analyze a personal repository of malicious PCAPs.
  3. Determine the benignity of hundreds of packet captures.
  4. Automate analyzing (and sharing) honeypot packet captures.
  5. Automate preliminary malware analysis/triage.

Prerequisites for HoneyBot:

  • WireShark must be installed.
    • If you are on a Linux based operating system you can just install t-shark
      • apt-get install tshark
  • Python 3.5 or later is required.
  • You must request an api key, before you can leverage these scripts.

Installation

  • pip install -r requirements.txt
  • python setup.py install

Usage

capture-and-analyze.py

usage: capture-and-analyze.py [-h] [--seconds SECONDS] [--interface INTERFACE]
                              [--analyze] [--list-interfaces] [--list-pcaps]
                              [--export-pcaps]

Capture, upload and analyze network traffic; powered by PacketTotal.com.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --seconds SECONDS     The number of seconds to capture traffic for.
  --interface INTERFACE
                        The name of the interface (--list-interfaces to show
                        available)
  --analyze             If included, capture will be uploaded for analysis to
                        PacketTotal.com.
  --list-interfaces     Lists the available interfaces.
  --list-pcaps          Lists pcaps submitted to PacketTotal.com for analysis.
  --export-pcaps        Writes pcaps submitted to PacketTotal.com for analysis
                        to a csv file.

upload-and-analyze.py

usage: upload-and-analyze.py [-h] [--path PATH [PATH ...]] [--analyze]
                             [--list-pcaps] [--export-pcaps]

Upload and analyze .pcap/.pcapng files in bulk; powered by PacketTotal.com.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --path PATH [PATH ...]
                        One or more paths to pcap or directory of pcaps.
  --analyze             If included, capture will be uploaded for analysis to
                        PacketTotal.com.
  --list-pcaps          Lists pcaps submitted to PacketTotal.com for analysis.
  --export-pcaps        Writes pcaps submitted to PacketTotal.com for analysis
                        to a csv file.

trigger-and-analyze.py

usage: trigger-and-analyze.py [-h] [--interface INTERFACE] [--learn LEARN]
                              [--listen] [--capture-seconds CAPTURE_SECONDS]
                              [--list-interfaces] [--list-pcaps]
                              [--export-pcaps]

Listen for unknown connections, and begin capturing when one is made. Captures
are automatically uploaded and analyzed; powered by PacketTotal.com

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --interface INTERFACE
                        The name of the interface (--list-interfaces to show
                        available)
  --learn LEARN         The number of seconds from which to build the known
                        connections whitelist. Connections in this whitelist
                        will be ignored.
  --listen              If included, we will begin listening for unknown
                        connections, and immediately starting a packet capture
                        and uploading to PacketTotal.com for analysis.
  --capture-seconds CAPTURE_SECONDS
                        The number of seconds worth of network traffic to
                        capture and analyze after a trigger has fired.
  --list-interfaces     Lists the available interfaces.
  --list-pcaps          Lists pcaps submitted to PacketTotal.com for analysis.
  --export-pcaps        Writes pcaps submitted to PacketTotal.com for analysis
                        to a csv file.