The number of client-side attacks has grown significantly in the past few years shifting focus on poorly protected vulnerable clients. Just as the most known honeypot technologies enable research into server-side attacks, honeyclients allow the study of client-side attacks.

A complement to honeypots, a honeyclient is a tool designed to mimic the behavior of a user-driven network client application, such as a web browser, and be exploited by an attacker's content.

Thug is a Python low-interaction honeyclient aimed at mimicing the behavior of a web browser in order to detect and emulate malicious contents.

Documentation about Thug installation and usage can be found in the source tree or alternatively at https://buffer.github.com/thug/

Thug is open source and free to use for any purpose (even commercial ones). If you use and appreciate Thug, consider supporting the project with a donation using Paypal (details at https://buffer.github.com/thug/).

Copyright (C) 2011-2018 Angelo Dell'Aera <[email protected]>

License: GNU General Public License, version 2