Paul Ligocki

Open Canary Honey Pot on Raspberry Pi

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Open Canary Honey Pot on Raspberry Pi

Download 32Bit Ubuntu Image

https://ubuntu.com/download/raspberry-pi

Flash Image onto SD Card

dd status=progress if=/downloads/ubuntu.iso of=/dev/mmcblkid0

Update System

sudo sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

Install Pre Requsites

sudo apt install nano ftp python-dev python-pip python-virtualenv build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev -y

Setup Virtual Environment

virtualenv env/
. env/bin/activate

Install Open Canary

pip install --upgrade 'setuptools<45.0.0'
pip install rdpy #Must be install first on Ubuntu
pip install opencanary

Configure Open Canary

opencanaryd --copyconfig
[*] A sample config file is ready (/home/ubuntu/.opencanary.conf)
[*] Edit your configuration, then launch with "opencanaryd --start"
nano ~/.opencanary.conf

Setup E-Mail

Add the SMTP Handeler snippet below into ~/.opencanary.conf

SMTP Handeler Snippet

"SMTP": 
  {
  "class": "logging.handlers.SMTPHandler",
    "mailhost": ["smtp.gmail.com", 587],
    "fromaddr": "noreply@yourdomain.com",
    "toaddrs" : ["youraddress@gmail.com"],
    "subject" : "OpenCanary Alert",
    "credentials" : ["youraddress", "abcdefghijklmnop"],
    "secure" : []
  },

Edit opencanary.conf

nano ~/.opencanary.conf

Insert SMTP Handeler Snippet into opencanary.conf

"kwargs": {
            "formatters": {
                "plain": {
                    "format": "%(message)s"
                }
            },
            "handlers": {
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<Inset Here>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
                "console": {
                    "class": "logging.StreamHandler",
                    "stream": "ext://sys.stdout"

Start Open Canary

opencanaryd --start

Restart Open Canary

opencanaryd --restart
  • https://github.com/thinkst/opencanary
  • https://opencanary.readthedocs.io/en/latest/starting/opencanary.html
  • https://ubuntu.com/download/raspberry-pi

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