HoneyDrive

HoneyDrive is an open source software project, a virtual appliance based on the Xfce edition of the world’s most popular free operating system, Ubuntu, and designed from the ground up to act as a honeypot.

Available for download only as a virtual appliance in the OVA format

The product can be downloaded via Softoware or directly from its official homepage (see link above) as a virtual appliance in the OVA (Open Virtualization Format) format.

The OVA image has approximately 3GB in size and can be imported in the Oracle VirtuaBox or VMWare Workstation virtualization software. It runs in 32-bit. At the login screen, use the Guest account to log into the graphical session.

Fast graphical desktop environment powered by Xfce

being based on Xubuntu, the project features an astonishing graphical desktop environment powered by Xfce, which comprises of a top panel for quick access to pre-installed applications and a bottom panel for interacting with opened programs.

It includes best of breed honeypot software

HoneyDrive contains various honeypot software packages, such as Kippo SSH honeypot, Honeyd low-interaction honeypot, Dionaea malware honeypot, Thug honeyclient, Glastopf web honeypot along with Wordpot, and others.

Among some of the features offered by HoneyDrive, we can mention a full LAMP stack, a full suite of security, anti-malware and forensics tools for network monitoring, as well as specific extensions for the Mozilla Firefox web browser.

In addition, it comes with some extra helpful software, such as the Terminator terminal emulator, GParted partition editor, Adminer database manager, Xpdf PDF viewer and VYM (View Your Mind) mind mapping utility..

Bottom line

Summing up, HoneyDrive is a wonderful and powerful product for security professional who are looking for a very secure, completely free and well made honypot solution. It is based on a rock-solid Ubuntu distribution and supports well known virtualization technologies.