Ad-Honeypot-Autodeploy – Deploy A Small, Intentionally Insecure, Vulnerable Windows Domain For RDP Honeypot Fully Automatically

After a short time (~2-3 mins), the network and virtual machines are up and running.

WARNING: You should take care of protecting your private network. The terraform config (main.tf) provided here just contains a custom firewall rule for my own testing environment (blocking 192.168.0.0/16 destination traffic from the 192.168.3.0/24 honeypot network).

Next is the configuration phase.

Ansible

Get into the ansible folder:

cd ../ansible

Recommended installation method is installing the latest Ansible with some required additional dependencies in a Python venv virtualized environment:

python3 -m venv venv
. ./venv/bin/activate
pip install ansible pywinrm faker

For later use just activate the venv by

. ./venv/bin/activate

And just deactivate if it is not needed anymore in your current session.

You should put an SSH public key with filename id.pub into the ansible folder for accessing the Ubuntu Graylog machine with the ubuntu user (ansible will add it to ~ubuntu/.ssh/authorized_keys).

The wordlist.txt file contains some (intentionally weak) passwords for the populated domain users which can be customized.

Run the configuration phase:

ansible-playbook -i hosts setup-domain.yml -v

After 20-25 mins everything is ready.

The deployed system

According to the libvirt network configuration (NAT), the hosts can access the public internet (if your host system allows it).

Accessing the hosts is possible through the host system. Practically using an SSH socks tunnel and proxychains for RDP or WinRM access is very comfortable.

For example, if your libvirt host IP is 192.168.0.10, create a socks tunnel listening on localhost:5000 by

ssh 192.168.0.10 -D5000 -NTv

And access the Windows 10 desktop (using an appropriate /etc/proxychains.confconfigured for the :5000 tunnel):

proxychains xfreerdp /v:192.168.3.112 /u:administrator

Or, access the Graylog web interface listening on :9000 locally on the Graylog Ubuntu server by SSH ProxyJump and custom forward tunnel:

ssh -J 192.168.0.10 [email protected] -NTv -L9000:127.0.0.1:9000

Then open URL http://localhost:9000 and you reach the Graylog web interface.

For activating the RDP honeypot, just allow public access to 192.168.3.112:3389 (for example with some port forwarding configuration on your router and iptables rules on the host machine; my helper script is rdp_public.sh) and keep watching the Graylog. 😉