Honeypot Threat Analysis — July 17, 2026
Critical threat level — massive coordinated attack activity across all honeypot services.
Cybersecurity Analysis for July 17, 2026
Overview: On July 17, 2026, the honeypot environment on a Raspberry Pi 5 in Spain was active and monitored by honey-ai.dev. The system recorded a total of 869 SSH connections with 382 successful commands executed, leading to 483 login attempts from 382 IPs. Additionally, there were 7179 multi-protocol events logged, including FTP, Telnet, SMTP, MySQL, Redis, Git, VNC, and RDP.
Threat Intelligence: The system reported a total of 134 attackers, with multiple critical alerts indicating high severity. The abuseIPDB reported that there were 97 reported IPs. The top five attack sources were located in the United States (1432), China (711), Belgium (278), Pakistan (228), and the Netherlands (222).
Geographic Analysis: The honeypot’s total IP count was 5,136. Out of these, 1,432 were from the United States, representing approximately 27% of all IPs. China remained a significant presence with 711 IPs, or about 13%. Other notable countries included Belgium (278), Pakistan (228), and the Netherlands (222).
SSH Brute Force: The honeypot experienced 483 login attempts using SSH connections from a wide array of IP addresses. This suggests that attackers are actively trying to gain unauthorized access through weak passwords.
Post-Exploitation Activities: During this period, there were multiple instances where attackers attempted to execute commands on the system. These included:
- 796x: Executed
uname -s -v -n -r -mand other system information queries. - 44x: Attempted to change permissions of
.sshdirectories or lock them usinglockr. - 20x: A variant command executed by the user, similar in nature to the 796x command.
Web Scanning: The honeypot observed 78 HTTP requests from various IP addresses. Commonly accessed paths included /dispatch.asp, /login, and others that could indicate potential misconfigurations or vulnerabilities on the system.
IDS & Scan Intel: Suricata IDS reported 1,114 alerts logged over a period of time, with 552 IPs associated with these alerts. The severity was marked as critical, indicating high security concerns.
Malware Analysis: No malware was detected during this monitoring session, which is not surprising given the nature of the honeypot environment designed to simulate an active network.
Tarpit & Backfire Scans: During the period, 105 connections were trapped and tarpitted by the system. Additionally, there were five scans targeting various IP addresses, each lasting for approximately two minutes.
Malware Tails: The honeypot reported one instance of an AWS token breach from 114.10.44.88 with user-agent information indicating a Boto3 library version. This incident underscores the importance of continuous monitoring and security measures against potential breaches.
MCP Trap & Portscans: No malware was detected, but there were six requests captured during an MCP trap event, which could indicate attempts to scan open ports or perform port scans.
AI Defense & Community Defense: The honeypot’s AI defense tools successfully blocked 0 injections and 0 leaks. There were no reports of any community defenses being triggered.
Conclusion: Given the high number of attacks (134) and the critical nature of some alerts, it is clear that this honeypot environment on a Raspberry Pi 5 in Spain is under active threat. The data suggests that the system is continuously monitored but has not yet been able to detect or contain any malware activity. Continuous security measures, including increased monitoring and improved response capabilities, are essential for securing such environments.
This analysis was generated by qwen2.5:1.5b running locally on the Raspberry Pi 5 honeypot lab. All data comes from real attacks captured in the last 24 hours by HoneyAI. View the raw data report for complete metrics.