Spins up each service's server.py in a real subprocess via a free ephemeral
port (PORT env var), connects with real protocol clients, and asserts both
correct protocol behavior and RFC 5424 log output.
- 44 live tests across 10 services: http, ftp, smtp, redis, mqtt,
mysql, postgres, mongodb, pop3, imap
- Shared conftest.py: _ServiceProcess (bg reader thread + queue),
free_port, live_service fixture, assert_rfc5424 helper
- PORT env var added to all 10 targeted server.py templates
- New pytest marker `live`; excluded from default addopts run
- requirements-live-tests.txt: flask, twisted + protocol clients
MongoDB had the same infinite-loop bug as MSSQL (msg_len=0 → buffer never
shrinks in while loop). Postgres, MySQL, and MQTT had related length-field
issues (stuck state, resource exhaustion, overlong remaining-length).
Also fixes an existing MongoDB _op_reply struct.pack format bug (extra 'q'
specifier caused struct.error on any OP_QUERY response).
Adds 53 regression + protocol boundary tests across MSSQL, MongoDB,
Postgres, MySQL, and MQTT, including a _run_with_timeout threading harness
to catch infinite loops and @pytest.mark.fuzz hypothesis tests for each.
Cowrie was exposing an SSH daemon on port 22 alongside the telnet service
even when COWRIE_SSH_ENABLED=false, contaminating deployments that did not
request an SSH service.
New implementation mirrors the SSH service pattern:
- busybox telnetd in foreground mode on port 23
- /bin/login for real PAM authentication (brute-force attempts logged)
- rsyslog RFC 5424 bridge piped to stdout for Docker log capture
- Configurable root password and hostname via env vars
- No Cowrie dependency
real_ssh was a separate service name pointing to the same template and
behaviour as ssh. Merged them: ssh is now the single real-OpenSSH service.
- Rename templates/real_ssh/ → templates/ssh/
- Remove decnet/services/real_ssh.py
- Deaddeck archetype updated: services=["ssh"]
- Merge test_real_ssh.py into test_ssh.py (includes deaddeck + logging tests)
- Drop decnet.services.real_ssh from test_build module list
Scraps the Cowrie emulation layer. The real_ssh template now runs a
genuine sshd backed by a three-layer logging stack forwarded to stdout
as RFC 5424 for the DECNET collector:
auth,authpriv.* → rsyslogd → named pipe → stdout (logins/failures)
user.* → rsyslogd → named pipe → stdout (PROMPT_COMMAND cmds)
sudo syslog=auth → rsyslogd → named pipe → stdout (privilege escalation)
sudo logfile → /var/log/sudo.log (local backup with I/O)
The ssh.py service plugin now points to templates/real_ssh and drops all
COWRIE_* / NODE_NAME env vars, sharing the same compose fragment shape as
real_ssh.py.
Conpot is a third-party app with its own Python logger — it never calls
decnet_logging. Added entrypoint.py as a subprocess wrapper that:
- Launches conpot and captures its stdout/stderr
- Classifies each line (startup/request/warning/error/log)
- Extracts source IPs via regex
- Emits RFC 5424 syslog lines to stdout for Docker/collector pickup
Entrypoint is self-contained (no import of shared decnet_logging.py)
because the conpot base image runs Python 3.6, which cannot parse the
dict[str, Any] / str | None type syntax used in the canonical file.
The BASE_IMAGE build arg was being unconditionally overwritten by
composer.py with the decky's distro build_base (debian:bookworm-slim),
turning the conpot container into a bare Debian image with no conpot
installation — hence the silent restart loop.
Two fixes:
1. composer.py: use args.setdefault() so services that pre-declare
BASE_IMAGE in their compose_fragment() win over the distro default.
2. conpot.py: pre-declare BASE_IMAGE=honeynet/conpot:latest in build
args so it always uses the upstream image regardless of decky distro.
Also removed the USER decnet switch from the conpot Dockerfile. The
upstream image already runs as the non-root 'conpot' user; switching to
'decnet' broke pkg_resources because conpot's eggs live under
/home/conpot/.local and are only on sys.path for that user.
The entrypoint.sh was present in the build context but never COPYed into
the image, causing 'stat /entrypoint.sh: no such file or directory' at
container start. Added COPY+chmod before the USER decnet instruction so
the script is installed as root and is executable by all users.
- Add dynamic challenge nonces to Postgres, VNC, and SIP.
- Add basic keyspace lookup and mock data to Redis.
- Correct MSSQL TDS pre-login offset bounds.
- Support MongoDB OP_MSG handshake version checking.
- Suppress Werkzeug HTTP server headers and normalize FTPAnonymousShell response.
- Add tracking for Dynamic Bait Store (DEBT-027) via DEBT.md.
- Buffer DATA body until CRLF.CRLF terminator — fixes 502-on-every-body-line bug
- SMTP_OPEN_RELAY=1: AUTH accepted (235), RCPT TO accepted for any domain,
full DATA pipeline with queued-as message ID
- Default (SMTP_OPEN_RELAY=0): credential harvester — AUTH rejected (535)
but connection stays open, RCPT TO returns 554 relay denied
- SASL PLAIN and LOGIN multi-step AUTH both decoded and logged
- RSET clears all per-transaction state
- Add development/SMTP_RELAY.md, IMAP_BAIT.md, ICS_SCADA.md, BUG_FIXES.md
(live-tested service realism plans)
- Add # nosec B104 to all intentional 0.0.0.0 binds in honeypot servers
(hardcoded_bind_all_interfaces is by design — deckies must accept attacker connections)
- Add # nosec B101 to assert statements used for protocol validation in ldap/snmp
- Add # nosec B105 to fake SASL placeholder in ldap
- Add # nosec B108 to /tmp usage in smb template
- Exclude root-owned auto-generated decnet_logging.py copies from bandit scan
via pyproject.toml [tool.bandit] config (synced by _sync_logging_helper at deploy)
Services now print RFC 5424 to stdout; Docker captures via json-file driver.
A new host-side collector (decnet.web.collector) streams docker logs from all
running decky service containers and writes RFC 5424 + parsed JSON to the host
log file. The existing ingester continues to tail the .json file unchanged.
rsyslog can consume the .log file independently — no DECNET involvement needed.
Removes: bind-mount volume injection, _LOG_NETWORK bridge, log_target config
field and --log-target CLI flag, TCP syslog forwarding from service templates.
Introduces the 'real_ssh' service plugin backed by a genuine OpenSSH
server (not cowrie), and the 'deaddeck' archetype that uses it. The
container ships with a lived-in Linux environment and a deliberately
weak root:admin credential to invite exploitation.
- templates/real_ssh/: Dockerfile + entrypoint (configurable via env)
- decnet/services/real_ssh.py: BaseService plugin, service_cfg supports
password and hostname overrides
- decnet/archetypes.py: deaddeck archetype added
- tests/test_real_ssh.py: 17 tests covering registration, compose
fragment structure, overrides, and archetype
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
dict[str, Any] and X | Y union syntax require Python 3.10+. Containers
running centos7/ubuntu20/rocky9 base images ship Python 3.6-3.9 and
crashed on import. Adding the __future__ import makes all annotations
lazy strings, compatible back to Python 3.7.
Affected: templates/decnet_logging.py (+ all 22 template copies),
decnet/logging/syslog_formatter.py, decnet/logging/file_handler.py
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- HTTP: configurable server_header, response_code, fake_app presets
(apache/nginx/wordpress/phpmyadmin/iis), extra_headers, custom_body,
static files directory mount
- SSH/Cowrie: configurable kernel_version, hardware_platform, ssh_banner,
and users/passwords via COWRIE_USERDB_ENTRIES; switched to build mode
so cowrie.cfg.j2 persona fields and userdb.txt generation work
- SMTP: configurable banner and MTA hostname
- MySQL: configurable version string in protocol greeting
- Redis: configurable redis_version and os string in INFO response
- BYOS: [custom-*] INI sections define bring-your-own Docker services
- Stealth: rename all *_honeypot.py → server.py; replace HONEYPOT_NAME
env var with NODE_NAME across all 22+ service templates and plugins;
strip "honeypot" from all in-container file content
- Config: DeckyConfig.service_config dict; INI [decky-N.svc] subsections;
composer passes service_cfg to compose_fragment
- 350 tests passing (100%)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
dtagdevsec/mailoney and dtagdevsec/elasticpot are unavailable on Docker Hub
("manifest unknown"), causing the entire deployment to abort and cascade-
interrupt all other image pulls.
- Convert smtp and elasticsearch to build services with custom Python
honeypots: smtp emulates Postfix ESMTP (EHLO/AUTH/MAIL/RCPT logging),
elasticsearch emulates ES 7.17 HTTP API (logs recon probes like /_cat/,
/_cluster/, /_nodes/, /_security/)
- Both use ARG BASE_IMAGE so they participate in per-decky distro variation
- Add _compose_with_retry() to deployer: 3 attempts with exponential backoff
(5s → 10s → 20s) for transient network failures; permanent errors
("manifest unknown", "pull access denied") are detected and not retried
- Update test_services.py and test_composer.py: smtp/elasticsearch moved
from UPSTREAM_SERVICES to BUILD_SERVICES (314 tests passing)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
b"\x00" * 10 inside an implicit bytes-literal concatenation block is a
multiplication expression, not a literal. Python's greedy concatenation
absorbs the b"\x00" into the preceding chain, applies * 10 to the whole
thing, then finds the following b"\x21..." literal stranded after an
expression without a comma — SyntaxError.
Fix: inline the 10 null bytes as a literal.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
--break-system-packages was added in pip 23 (Debian Bookworm). Ubuntu 22.04
ships pip 22 which rejects the flag with exit code 2. Switch to the
PIP_BREAK_SYSTEM_PACKAGES env var instead: recognized by pip>=23, silently
ignored by pip<23 where PEP 668 is not enforced anyway.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Replace hardcoded ALL_SERVICE_NAMES=[5 services] in cli.py with
_all_service_names() pulling dynamically from the plugin registry;
randomize-services now draws from all 25 registered honeypots
- Add build_base field to DistroProfile: apt-compatible image for service
Dockerfiles (ubuntu22/ubuntu20/kali get their own; others fall back to
debian:bookworm-slim since Dockerfiles use apt-get)
- Add build_base to DeckyConfig; propagate from distro in _build_deckies
and _build_deckies_from_ini
- Inject BASE_IMAGE build arg in composer.py for every build-based service
so each decky's containers reflect its assigned distro
- Update all 21 service Dockerfiles: FROM debian:bookworm-slim →
ARG BASE_IMAGE=debian:bookworm-slim / FROM ${BASE_IMAGE}
- Add tests/test_cli_service_pool.py and tests/test_composer.py (306 total)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
