HellPot/README.md

HellPot

HellPot is an endless honeypot that gives sends bots to hell. Based on Heffalump.

It finishes the work of Heffalump with a few improvements and the addition of a toml configuration file and JSON logging. It is built off of CokePlate.

The source of the honeypot data is The Birth of Tragedy (Hellenism and Pessimism) by Friedrich Nietzsche

Live example: Do not follow this link. It will flood your browser's memory and likely cause a crash.

Example Web Server Config (nginx)

		location '/robots.txt' {
                proxy_set_header Host $host;
                proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
                proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080$request_uri;
        }
        location '/wp-login.php' {
                proxy_set_header Host $host;
                proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
                proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080$request_uri;
        }

Example Program Config (toml)

If the configuration file is missing, the default settings will automatically drop itself in the current working directory as config.toml.