Thug

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Tool and Usage

Project details

License
GPLv2
Programming language
Python
Author
Angelo Dell'Aera
Latest release
6.3
Latest release date

Project health

97
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Why this tool?

The honeypot concept is a well-known technique to collect attack patterns on servers and systems. Tools like Thug are considered to be a honeyclient, or client honeypot. These tools collect attacks against client applications. For example by mimicking a web application and visit a malicious page to see if any code is attacking the application.

Usage and audience

Thug is commonly used for learning, malware analysis, or threat discovery. Target users for this tool are security professionals.

Tool review and remarks

The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:

Strengths

  • + The source code of this software is available

Author and Maintainers

Thug is under development by Angelo Dell'Aera.

Installation

Supported operating systems

Thug is known to work on Linux.

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Categories

This tool is categorized as a client honeypot and honeypot.

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