HoneyBot – Capture, Upload And Analyze Network Traffic

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 packet 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

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

Limitations

• 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:

• 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
                        con   nections, 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.