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This article mainly introduces how to set up the honeypot in the Kali Linux environment, has a certain reference value, interested friends can refer to, I hope you can learn a lot after reading this article, the following let the editor take you to understand it.

Pentbox is a security suite that contains a number of tools that simplify the flow of penetration testing. It is written in Ruby and is GNU/Linux-oriented. It also supports Windows, MacOS, and any other system with Ruby installed. In this short article, we will explain how to set up honeypots in the Kali Linux environment.

If you don't already know what a Honeypot is, honeypot is a computer security mechanism that is set up to discover, transfer, or, in some way, counteract unauthorized attempts to information systems.

Download Pentbox:

Simply type the following command in your terminal to download pentbox-1.8.

Root@kali:~# wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/pentbox18realised/pentbox-1.8.tar.gz

Extract the pentbox file

Use the following command to extract the file:

Root@kali:~# tar-zxvf pentbox-1.8.tar.gz

Run the ruby script for pentbox

Change the directory to the pentbox folder:

Root@kali:~# cd pentbox-1.8/

Run pentbox using the following command:

Root@kali:~#. / pentbox.rb

Set up a honeypot

Use option 2 (Network Tools) followed by option 3 (Honeypot).

When done, let's run the first test and select option 1 (Fast Auto Configuration)

This opens a honeypot on port 80. Open the browser and open the link http://192.168.160.128 (192.168.160.128 here is your own IP address. (you should see an error report from Access denied.

And you should see "HONEYPOT ACTIVATED ON PORT 80" and followed by "INTRUSION ATTEMPT DETECTED" on your terminal.

Now, if you select option 2 (Manual Configuration) at the same step, you should see more other options:

Perform the same steps but select port 22 (SSH port) this time. Then do a port forwarding on your router and forward the external port 22 to port 22 on this machine. Or, set the honeypot on a VPS on your cloud server.

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