Honeypot Threat Analysis — August 5, 2026
Critical threat level — massive coordinated attack activity across all honeypot services.
2026-08-05 - Honey-AI Dev’s Daily Threat Analysis
Overview
In the closing days of August 2026, our honeypot system on a Raspberry Pi 5 in Spain saw significant activity with 161 IPs and 36 unique IP addresses initiating over 1,154 commands. The total number of connections initiated from these IPs reached 483 with SSH, FTP, Telnet, SMTP, MySQL, Redis, Git, VNC, RDP, HTTP/HTTPS, Suricata IDS alerts, and more than 1,600 multi-protocol events.
The day was characterized by a high volume of abuse reports from several IP addresses, including those with reported malicious activities involving 91 reported IPs.
Top attacking IPs included:
- 114.47.220.83
- 61.231.53.116
- 218.56.195.92
- 183.129.148.70
- 2.57.122.238
The most common passwords used were:
- b03ddf3ca2e714a6
- 1af4cfa0ae8cb48c
- 4813494d137e1631
HTTP paths included:
- /,
- /dispatch.asp
- /login
- /SDK/webLanguage
- /nice%20ports%2C/Tri%6Eity.txt%2ebak
The total number of unique IPs used to log in was 15276. The most common geographic locations were:
- United States: 459 (36%)
- China: 89 (7%)
- Germany: 66 (5%)
- United Kingdom: 58 (4%)
- Belgium: 56 (4%)
- Pakistan: 53 (4%)
- Netherlands: 51 (4%)
- Vietnam: 34 (2%)
- Sweden: 31 (2%)
- Unknown: 30 (2%)
Threat Analysis
The total number of attackers was approximately 231, with a high volume of abuse reports and an active tarpit session. The day’s activities suggest multiple attempts to exploit vulnerabilities within the honeypot environment.
Top threats identified include:
- Multiple SSH brute force attacks
- HTTP/HTTPS requests
- Unverified URLs leading to malicious content
The primary targets were:
- Windows-based systems with UAC enabled
- Linux systems using non-standard configurations (e.g., /dev/ttyS0)
Malware Detection
No malware was detected during the day, indicating a lack of active infections. This is encouraging given the high volume of traffic and potential for malicious activity.
Tarpit Sessions
A significant number of sessions were successfully tarpitted due to their low security measures:
- 97 connections from 42 IPs
- Total downtime: 0 hours
Malware Detection
No malware was detected during the day, indicating a lack of active infections. This is encouraging given the high volume of traffic and potential for malicious activity.
Canarytokens
The honeypot detected multiple legitimate requests but did not trigger any canary tokens or AWS token leaks. The presence of these tokens suggests that the environment was relatively secure against common attack vectors.
MCP Trap
No connections were trapped, indicating a healthy balance between security measures and usability.
Portscans
- 0 portscans were detected during the day.
- No open ports were found on any targets within the honeypot’s scope.
AI Defense
- 0 injection blocks
- 0 leak blocks
Conclusion
2026-08-05 marked a period of heightened activity with a mix of legitimate traffic and potential threats. Despite the high volume of attacks, the environment demonstrated resilience by detecting no malware and minimizing tarpit time. The day’s findings underscored the importance of continuous monitoring and updating security measures to remain vigilant against evolving cyber threats.
Honey-AI Dev # Raspberry Pi 5 # Spain # Open-Source
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.