OpenCanary

Thinkst Applied Research

Overview

In essence, OpenCanary creates a network honeypot allowing you to catch hackers before they fully compromise your systems. As a technical definition, OpenCanary is a daemon that runs several canary versions of services that alerts when a service is (ab)used.

Features

• Receive email alerts as soon as potential threats are detected, highlighting the threat source IP address and where the breach may have taken place.

Prerequisites

• Python 2.7, 3.7 (Recommended python 3.7+)
• [Optional] SNMP requires the python library scapy
• [Optional] RDP requires the python library rdpy (this module has been removed; we are currently determing a way forward with this.)
• [Optional] Samba module needs a working installation of samba

Installation

For updated and cleaner documentation, please head over to http://opencanary.org

Installation on Ubuntu 20.04: (Please note that although we support python 2.7; these instructions are aimed at running the python 3 version)

$ sudo apt-get install python3-dev python3-pip python3-virtualenv python3-venv python3-scapy
$ sudo apt install samba # if you plan to use the smb module
$ virtualenv env/
$ . env/bin/activate
$ pip install opencanary
$ pip install scapy pcapy # optional

Installation OS X needs an extra step, as multiple OpenSSL versions may exist which confounds the python libraries using to it.

$ virtualenv env/
$ . env/bin/activate

Macports users should then run:

$ sudo port install openssl
$ env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" LDFLAGS="-L/opt/local/lib" CFLAGS="-I/opt/local/include" pip install cryptography

Alternatively homebrew users run:

$ brew install openssl
$ env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib" CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include" pip install cryptography

Now installation can run as usual:

$ pip install opencanary
$ pip install scapy pcapy # optional

To install from source, instead of running pip do the following:

$ git clone https://github.com/thinkst/opencanary
$ cd opencanary
$ python setup.py sdist
$ cd dist
$ pip install opencanary-<version>.tar.gz

If you are looking to get OpenCanary working on OpenBSD, take a look at https://github.com/8com/opencanary.

Run

OpenCanary is started by running:

$ . env/bin/activate
$ opencanaryd --start

On the first run, instructions are printed that will get to a working config.

$ opencanaryd --copyconfig

Which will create a folder, /etc/opencanary and a config file inside that folder opencanary.conf. You must now edit the config file to determine which services and logging options you would like to enable.

Samba Setup (optional)

(Please note that as Samba versions differ, you may need to change some configuration values.)

The Samba OpenCanary module monitors a log file produced by the Samba full_audit VFS module. Setup relies on:

• Having Samba installed.
• A modified Samba config file, to write file events to syslog's LOCAL7 facility.
• A modified syslog file, to output LOCAL7 to a samba-audit.log file.

As template Samba config, modify the following and install it to the right location (often /etc/samba/smb.conf). The lines you'll likely want to change are:

• path
• workgroup
• server string
• netbios name
• [myshare]
• comment

    [global]
       workgroup = WORKGROUP
       server string = blah
       netbios name = SRV01
       dns proxy = no
       log file = /var/log/samba/log.all
       log level = 0
       vfs object = full_audit
       full_audit:prefix = %U|%I|%i|%m|%S|%L|%R|%a|%T|%D
       full_audit:success = pread
       full_audit:failure = none
       full_audit:facility = local7
       full_audit:priority = notice
       max log size = 100
       panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d

       #samba 4
       server role = standalone server

       #samba 3
       #security = user

       passdb backend = tdbsam
       obey pam restrictions = yes
       unix password sync = no
       map to guest = bad user
       usershare allow guests = yes
    [myshare]
       comment = All the stuff!
       path = /home/demo/share
       guest ok = yes
       read only = yes
       browseable = yes
       #vfs object = audit

Configure syslog to write the Samba logs out to the file that OpenCanary monitors. With rsyslog, adding these two lines to /etc/rsyslog.conf will do that:

$FileCreateMode 0644
local7.*            /var/log/samba-audit.log

For other syslog implementations similar lines might work.

Docker

To build the latest Docker image (based on the code on a given branch) run:

docker build -t opencanary -f Dockerfile.latest .

To build a Docker image based on what has been released in Pypi, run:

docker build -t opencanary -f Dockerfile.stable .