The latest version of this distribution can be found at:

http://www.bizsystems.com/downloads/

Installation

What you need:

        Net::Whois::IP version 0.35
        LaBrea version 2.4b3 or higher
          LaBrea2_4b3.tgz is included with this distribution (works well)
          for labrea version 2.5-stable-1, apply the patch
          in the 'labrea_patches' directory to adjust
          bandwidth reporting for bytes/second

        LaBrea::Tarpit  distribution
          LaBrea/examples/daemon.pl
          LaBrea/examples/tell_me.pl
          LaBrea/DShield/examples/mail_dshield.pl
          LaBrea/Get/examples/web_scan.pl
          LaBrea/Report/examples/LocalTrojans.pl
          LaBrea/Report/examples/whois.plx
          LaBrea/Report/examples/html_report.plx
            or
          Labrea/Report/examples/paged_report.plx

Where do they go, who owns them:

root daemon.pl, tell_me.pl, mail_dshield.pl web xxx_report.plx LocalTrojans.pl

web_scan.pl whois.plx

        daemon.pl   ->  startup rc files
                make sure you shutdown with 
                kill -15 ... see below

        tell_me.pl  ->  root cron jobs
        mail_dshield.pl

        web_scan.pl -> web/user cron job
        xxx_report  -> web cgi script
                put images and LocalTrojans.pl
                where the report can find them
        whois.plx   -> web cgi script
                put in the same directory
                as xxx_report

Get, build and install:

        Net::Whois::IP version 0.35
        from cpan.org

        LaBrea version 2.4b3 or higher 
        from www.hackbusters.net

Install LaBrea::Tarpit

        tar -xzvf LaBrea-Tarpit-X.XX.tgz
        cd LaBrea-Tarpit-X.XX
        perl Makefile.PL
        make
        make test
        make install

Configuring 'daemon.pl'

        cp examples/daemon.pl to your daemon startup area
        cd (daemon startup area)

        Edit the 'config' settings in 'daemon.pl' to conform
        to you system then make an entry in your startup
        files to run 'daemon.pl' at boot time.

        Make sure that you use 

        kill -15 (SIG_TERM)

        to manually shut down the daemon so it perserves it's 
        cache information for reboot.

        Normal system shutdown typically does this 
        automatically.

Configuring 'html_report' or paged_report

        To use, copy the contents of the 'examples' directory
        to an appropriate directory on your web server. Then
        edit html_report.xxx or paged_report.xxx to provide 
        the path relative to your document root to the 'images' 
        directory or './' if it is the same as the report script.

        paged_report.xxx and html_report.xxx will not run as they
        are presently configured without this change.

        If you have mod_perl installed, you can run the report
        whois scripts as-is, otherwise rename the 'xxx' portion 
        'cgi'.

        make a subdirectory 'tmp' with permissions writable
        by the webserver for the report page cache.

        Adjust any configuration settings that deviate from
        this "standard" installation. 

        ##########################################################

To analyze syslog files do this:

perl html_report.plx syslog_file/path/name > some_html_page.html

the report module will preload the memory cache from

$looknfeel->{cache}

        then add the contents of the syslog file specified on the
        command line, write the html file and re-write the 
        memory cache file.

        ##########################################################

To add FILE CACHEing, set the values below. This is now mandatory

for paged_report.plx and html_report.plx.

        $looknfeel    -> {html_cache_file}
                        -> {html_expire}

**** WARNING ####

        The directory that the cache file resides in 
        MUST be writable by the web server

###################

        The web server to fetch the report from the 
        html_cache_file rather than generate a new report 
        each time. This is useful to reduce or eliminate the 
        effects of a denial of service attack on the report 
        generator page. It does a lot of crank turning and 
        can eat up CPU resources if there are many hits at 
        the same time.

localTrojans.pl

        A file containing a list of Trojan ports and their descriptions.
        please feel free to update this file as you learn of new
        trojan ports. A copy of any new information would be appreciated.

mail_dshield.pl

Not much to do to get this to work.

Copy "mail_dshield.pl"

to the root directory.

Configure EITHER smtp or a sendmail equivalent.

Set your DShield UserID, and mail address

        Adjust the PATH to the dshield cache directory, it
        should be the same as what you've configured for the
        LaBrea::Tarpit::daemon. 

        Run periodically from cron, it's smart enough to delete
        its old files and hang on to the ones that don't get
        sent for a retry.

web_scan.pl

Copy ./Get/examples/web_scan.pl and ./Get/examples/other_sites.txt

to your web site home directory.

        Run this cron job hourly or daily to retrieve stats from other
        sites using LaBrea::Tarpit.

        This example assumes that html_report.plx resides in ./public_html

# MIN HOUR DAY MONTH DAYOFWEEK COMMAND 30 * * * * ./web_scan.pl ./other_sites.txt ./public_html/tmp/site_stats

tell_me.pl

Copy ./examples/tell_me.pl

to your root directory and configure

        Run this cron job daily to generate an email to yourself showing
        the hosts that are older than "AGE" days that are stuck in the
        tarpit. You might want to send the ISP a notice about the rogue host.

# MIN HOUR DAY MONTH DAYOFWEEK COMMAND 30 * * * * ./tell_me.pl 60 # default

        You can also run it from the command line to send the
        same e-mail or edit the file to produce text instead.

enjoy... michael@bizsystems.com