How To Install dionaea on CentOS 8

dionaea is Low interaction honeypot

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dionaea on CentOS 8.

What is `dionaea`

Dionaea honeypot is meant to be a nepenthes successor, embedding python as scripting language, using libemu to detect shell-codes, supporting ipv6 and TLS.

We can use yum or dnf to install dionaea on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dionaea.

Install dionaea on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install dionaea using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install dionaea

Install dionaea on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install dionaea using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dionaea

How To Uninstall dionaea on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the dionaea package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove dionaea

dionaea Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/dionaea
/etc/dionaea/dionaea.cfg
/etc/dionaea/ihandlers-available
/etc/dionaea/ihandlers-available/cmdshell.yaml
/etc/dionaea/ihandlers-available/emu_scripts.yaml
/etc/dionaea/ihandlers-available/emuprofile.yaml
/etc/dionaea/ihandlers-available/fail2ban.yaml
/etc/dionaea/ihandlers-available/ftp.yaml
/etc/dionaea/ihandlers-available/hpfeeds.yaml
/etc/dionaea/ihandlers-available/log_db_sql.yaml
/etc/dionaea/ihandlers-available/log_incident.yaml
/etc/dionaea/ihandlers-available/log_json.yaml
/etc/dionaea/ihandlers-available/log_sqlite.yaml
/etc/dionaea/ihandlers-available/nfq.yaml
/etc/dionaea/ihandlers-available/p0f.yaml
/etc/dionaea/ihandlers-available/store.yaml
/etc/dionaea/ihandlers-available/submit_http.yaml
/etc/dionaea/ihandlers-available/submit_http_post.yaml
/etc/dionaea/ihandlers-available/tftp_download.yaml
/etc/dionaea/ihandlers-available/virustotal.yaml
/etc/dionaea/ihandlers-enabled
/etc/dionaea/ihandlers-enabled/cmdshell.yaml
/etc/dionaea/ihandlers-enabled/emuprofile.yaml
/etc/dionaea/ihandlers-enabled/ftp.yaml
/etc/dionaea/ihandlers-enabled/log_sqlite.yaml
/etc/dionaea/ihandlers-enabled/store.yaml
/etc/dionaea/ihandlers-enabled/tftp_download.yaml
/etc/dionaea/services-available
/etc/dionaea/services-available/blackhole.yaml
/etc/dionaea/services-available/epmap.yaml
/etc/dionaea/services-available/ftp.yaml
/etc/dionaea/services-available/http.yaml
/etc/dionaea/services-available/memcache.yaml
/etc/dionaea/services-available/mirror.yaml
/etc/dionaea/services-available/mongo.yaml
/etc/dionaea/services-available/mqtt.yaml
/etc/dionaea/services-available/mssql.yaml
/etc/dionaea/services-available/mysql.yaml
/etc/dionaea/services-available/pptp.yaml
/etc/dionaea/services-available/sip.yaml
/etc/dionaea/services-available/smb.yaml
/etc/dionaea/services-available/tftp.yaml
/etc/dionaea/services-available/upnp.yaml
/etc/dionaea/services-enabled
/etc/dionaea/services-enabled/blackhole.yaml
/etc/dionaea/services-enabled/epmap.yaml
/etc/dionaea/services-enabled/ftp.yaml
/etc/dionaea/services-enabled/http.yaml
/etc/dionaea/services-enabled/memcache.yaml
/etc/dionaea/services-enabled/mirror.yaml
/etc/dionaea/services-enabled/mongo.yaml
/etc/dionaea/services-enabled/mqtt.yaml
/etc/dionaea/services-enabled/mssql.yaml
/etc/dionaea/services-enabled/mysql.yaml
/etc/dionaea/services-enabled/pptp.yaml
/etc/dionaea/services-enabled/sip.yaml
/etc/dionaea/services-enabled/smb.yaml
/etc/dionaea/services-enabled/tftp.yaml
/etc/dionaea/services-enabled/upnp.yaml
/etc/logrotate.d/dionaea
/etc/sysconfig/dionaea
/usr/bin/gnuplotsql
/usr/bin/readlogsqltree
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e/a6fd0233ba204607fcbea1e1a055bfbe871fd4
/usr/lib/.build-id/24
/usr/lib/.build-id/24/3ba5230b7f4de24bd1af924dddc0566bc7676f
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f/125f16eba414545be8325fd1193d8bbdfd8a33
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6/6d86883def0d35b3d4e936609ed8d7707fb93c
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa/f6fb49b775a312902668353c3b2940add174f1
/usr/lib/.build-id/bb
/usr/lib/.build-id/bb/2970c9aae0cc79690a560f6a03ab4473e945e3
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0/f838c9506584da7e30e6d3a53f468a2f0b5d28
/usr/lib/systemd/system/dionaea.service
/usr/lib64/dionaea
/usr/lib64/dionaea/curl.so
/usr/lib64/dionaea/emu.so
/usr/lib64/dionaea/nc.so
/usr/lib64/dionaea/nfq.so
/usr/lib64/dionaea/nl.so
/usr/lib64/dionaea/pcap.so
/usr/sbin/dionaea
/usr/share/doc/dionaea
/usr/share/doc/dionaea/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/dionaea
/usr/share/licenses/dionaea/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/dionaea.1.gz
/var/lib/dionaea
/var/lib/dionaea/binaries
/var/lib/dionaea/bistreams
/var/lib/dionaea/dionaea.sqlite
/var/lib/dionaea/dionaea_incident.sqlite
/var/lib/dionaea/roots
/var/lib/dionaea/roots/ftp
/var/lib/dionaea/roots/tftp
/var/lib/dionaea/roots/upnp
/var/lib/dionaea/roots/www
/var/lib/dionaea/share
/var/lib/dionaea/share/python
/var/lib/dionaea/share/python/http
/var/lib/dionaea/share/python/http/template
/var/lib/dionaea/share/python/http/template/nginx
/var/lib/dionaea/share/python/http/template/nginx/autoindex.html.j2
/var/lib/dionaea/share/python/http/template/nginx/error.html.j2
/var/lib/dionaea/sipaccounts.sqlite
/var/log/dionaea

References

dionaea website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dionaea on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.