Anti-Spam Honeypots

Tools to create an anti-spam honeypot, fake open proxies and open relays, and relay tarpits.

• Fighting Spammers With Honeypots
• Open Proxy Honeypots
• Open Relay Honeypots
• Formmail Honeypots
• Spambot Honeytokens
• Slowing Spam Runs
• Spam Honeypot Logs

Fighting Spammers With Honeypots

Fighting Spammers With Honeypots - www.securityfocus.com./infocus/1747
Honeypots Against Spam - www.honeyd.org/spam.php

Open Proxy Honeypots

GypsyProxy - www.angelfire.com/space/netcensus/gypsyshot.html - Windows
KFSensor Proxy Server Emulation - www.keyfocus.net/kfsensor/help/AdminGuide/adm_Proxy.php - Windows
Open Proxy Honeypot - www.webappsec.org/projects/honeypots/

Related

• Open Proxies

Open Relay Honeypots

Fighting Relay Spam the Honeypot Way - fightrelayspam.homestead.com/ - Sendmail
Spampot.py - woozle.org/~neale/src/python/spampot.py - Pythons script

Related

• Open Relays

Formmail Honeypots

probewatch.cgi - apthorpe.cynistar.net/code/probewatch/probewatch.html
FormMail-trap - void.thunderteam.org/fm-trap.html
cgi-bin honeypot - www.meow.org.uk/stan/pet_projects/honeypot.html

Related

• Web Application Spam Relays

Spambot Honeytokens

These scripts can help automate tracking the connection between the spambot that scrapes your spam trap email address, and the proxy abuser who later spams you. They use honeytoken email addresses, generated as they are scraped, which can either be databased, or can themselves encode the information identifying the scraper.

Project Honey Pot - www.projecthoneypot.org/
Spam HoneyTrap 1.0 - marginalideas.com/mangle.php
cookie jar - Business-PHP.com/opensource/cookiejar/
Spamfang - spamfang.rehbein.net/
cookietrap.php - jmason.org/software/scripts/cookietrap.txt
basted - basted.sourceforge.net/
TrapSpamBot - libre-essai.com/TrapSpamBot.txt
TOASTEDspam Network Testing Service - www.toastedspam.com/nettest/
Distributed Spam Traps - hcpnet.free.fr/dst/

Related

• Poisoning Spambots
• Disposable Email Addresses
• Listwashing Tokens

Tools to Slow a Spam Run

Methods which can slow down a spam-run. They include teergrubing (or tarpitting), greylisting and spam deferral servers.

Spam Tarpitting

Greylisting

Related

• Preventing Spam by User Control

• Tarpitting to Slow a Spam Run
• Greylisting to Slow a Spam Run

Spam Honeypot Logs

Formmail Hall of Shame - www.softwolves.pp.se/internet/formmail_hall_of_shame/
Formmail Spammer Stats - www.obliquity.com/computer/spambait/formmail.html
Honeypot.be – Spamtracker - www.honeypot.be/

Related

• Spam Sources