A Curated List of Awesome Honeypots

This is a work-in-progress curated list of honeypots. Feel free to contact me with any suggestions.

Page last updated 29 Jul 2025.

Contents

• All-in-one
• Counter-Honeypots
• Database
• Email
• Other
• SSH
• Telnet
• Web

All-in-one

• chameleon  697   36   updated 2 weeks ago
  19 Customizable honeypots for monitoring network traffic, bots activities and username\password credentials (DNS, HTTP Proxy, HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, POP3, IMAP, STMP, RDP, VNC, SMB, SOCKS5, Redis, TELNET, Postgres, MySQL, MSSQL, Elastic and ldap)
• honeypot  52   3   updated 6 months ago
  Honeypot that emulates several protocols (incl. SSH, telnet, SMTP, HTTP, SSL and SIP)
• honeytrap  1,266   50   updated 5 days ago
  Advanced Honeypot framework.
• tpotce  8,115   208   updated today
  🍯 T-Pot - The All In One Multi Honeypot Platform 🐝
• dionaea  759   44   updated 6 days ago
  Home of the dionaea honeypot
• Python-Honeypot  465   24   updated 4 days ago
  OWASP Honeypot, Automated Deception Framework.
• dshield  481   51   updated 2 weeks ago
  DShield Raspberry Pi Sensor

Counter-Honeypots

• HoneypotBuster  283   23   updated 2 months ago
  
• kippo_detect  57   6   updated 6 months ago
  Quick proof of concept to detect a Kippo SSH honeypot instance externally

Database

• pg-server  48   7   updated 3 weeks ago
  Postgres DB server emulator, proxy or honeypot
• MongoDB-HoneyProxy  92   7   updated 9 months ago
  A honeypot proxy for mongodb. When run, this will proxy and log all traffic to a dummy mongodb server.
• nosqlpot  102   14   updated 6 months ago
  The NoSQL Honeypot Framework
• pghoney  19   1   updated 6 months ago
  Low-interaction Postgres Honeypot
• mysql-honeypotd  34   5   updated 1 week ago
  Low interaction MySQL honeypot written in C

Email

• hermes  9   5   updated 6 months ago
  SMTP honeypot built on top of the Salmon mail server
• mailoney  267   13   updated 2 weeks ago
  An SMTP Honeypot

Other

• conpot  1,362   98   updated 1 day ago
  ICS/SCADA honeypot
• awesome-honeypots  9,502   390   updated today
  an awesome list of honeypot resources
• opencanary  2,542   78   updated 1 day ago
  Modular and decentralised honeypot
• bluepot  259   14   updated 1 day ago
  Bluetooth Honeypot

SSH

• cowrie  5,742   122   updated today
  Cowrie SSH/Telnet Honeypot https://docs.cowrie.org/
• kippo  1,697   86   updated 5 days ago
  Kippo - SSH Honeypot
• SecureHoney  24   7   updated 1 month ago
  SSH honeypot written in C

Telnet

• telnet-iot-honeypot  306   15   updated 2 months ago
  Python telnet honeypot for catching botnet binaries
• hontel  161   10   updated 3 months ago
  Telnet Honeypot

Web

• honeyhttpd  50   1   updated 2 months ago
  HoneyHTTPD is a Python-based web server honeypot/service imitation builder. Great for honeypots or faking HTTP services.
• ssh-honeypot  653   29   updated 1 month ago
  Fake sshd that logs ip addresses, usernames, and passwords.
• glastopf  580   50   updated 5 days ago
  Web Application Honeypot
• snare  467   33   updated 2 weeks ago
  Super Next generation Advanced Reactive honEypot
• tanner  228   14   updated 2 weeks ago
  He who flays the hide
• django-admin-honeypot  1,056   30   updated 1 day ago
  :honey_pot: A fake Django admin login screen page.
• wordpot  183   10   updated 2 months ago
  A Wordpress Honeypot