Honeypot AP with Captive Portal

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  The pi

Inspiration

I've always wanted to work with a pi and this project seemed perfect. I also was always cautions of public Wi-Fi, so i wanted to simulate potential ways they might do when they get people to connect to "free Wi-Fi"

What it does

The honeypot simulates a real Access Point that once you connect to it, it takes you a captive portal asking you to enter email address and password to get free Wi-Fi. By that I'm able to get peoples Mac Address as soon as they establish a connection to the pi and email and password once they click enter

How we built it

I ran hostapd to simulate a real Wi-Fi network. The captive portal was built using lighttpad and PHP. Also, DNS server reroutes all traffic to captive portal ensuring uses are forced to connect.

Challenges we ran into

The hardest part was configuring the AP while managing the captive portal. Being pretty new to using a Pi this had a lot of challenges like debugging why my Pi was using network type managed instead of AP but I wanted to challenge myself.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Successfully setting up functional Wi-Fi honeypot that captures user data Gaining a deep understanding of network security and how easily data can be captured

What we learned

I learned the importance of staying safe and away from public wifi at all times

What's next for Honeypot AP with Captive Portal

Next would be to try to fully polish this project off to upload to my portfolio

Built With

• apache
• dnsmasq
• hostapd
• html
• lighttpd
• php