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AltocumulusCan I use F5 Big-IP WAF as HoneyPot
Hi to all
Can anyone tell me if there any way so that I an use F5 BIG-IP WAF as a HoneyPot.
6 Replies
RockBDThanks.
- Injeyan_Kostas
Cumulonimbus
You could have a VS fronting a dummy app and assign a transparent ASM policy logging all requests.
But is it really a honeypot? Definitely not.
And of course do not use a production BIG-IP for such case.
- RockBD
Do you have any links where I can learn about VS fronting a dummy app and a transparent ASM policy?
Also, may I know why you are not suggesting not to host a honeypot in the production BIG-IP?
- Injeyan_Kostas
I don’t have a specific link describing this exact use case, but you can refer to this F5 lab: https://f5-agility-labs-waf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html#
It walks you through setting up a basic transparent WAF policy.As for the backend app, you could use something lightweight and isolated, like a Docker container running Hackazon or OWASP Juice Shop.
Alternatively, you could have the F5 itself respond with a simple 200 OK to all requests.Just keep in mind, exposing such a setup to the internet will likely attract a lot of unwanted traffic. Unless you have excess resources you don’t mind consuming, I wouldn’t recommend using your production F5 for this purpose.
- Daniel_Wolf
MVP
Hi RockBD,
the answer is - it depends.
You cannot create a high interaction honeypot with ASM or with iRules.
With iRules you could do something like - if URL is /admin-login respond with a dummy form page.
Or an iRule that just responds 200 OK to everything and logs all requests.
In general, I see a honeypot more as something you would do with iRules rather then with ASM or LTM.With ASM you could use anomaly detection to redirect suspicious traffic to a honeypot server.
Or, with the help of iRules, based on violations, you could redirect clients to a honeypot server.
Or, again with iRules, you could setup fake URLs and redirect them to a honeypot server.This github list a lot of honeypot systems: https://github.com/paralax/awesome-honeypots
Cheers
Daniel- Nikoolayy1
I agree with this answer. Also see https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K42323285 and https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K18650749 but F5 even when sending a page that looks like real server response is not meant to be full honeypod.
