This application detects active instances of Responder by taking advantage of the fact that Responder will respond to any DNS query. Respotter uses LLMNR, mDNS, and NBNS protols to search for a bogus hostname that does not exist (default: Loremipsumdolorsitamet). If any of the requests get a response back, then it means that Responder is likely running on your network.
Respotter can send webhooks to Slack, Teams, or Discord. It also supports sending events to a syslog server to be ingested by a SIEM. Webhooks alerts are rate limited to 1 alert per IP per hour.
docker run --rm --net=host ghcr.io/lawndoc/respotter
Note: --net=host
is required due to privileged socket usage when crafting request packets
Respotter will also listen for LLMNR, mDNS, and NBNS queries that originate from other hosts. Queries from other hosts will raise an alert warning that the host may be susceptible to credential theft from Responder. Webhook alerts for vulnerable hosts are rate limited to 1 alert per IP:Protocol per day.
Respotter does NOT attempt to poison responses to sniffed queries. Poisoning responses isn't opsec-safe for the honeypot, and may cause issues with the client. Use Responder to identify accounts that are vulnerable to poisoning once a vulnerable host has been discovered by Respotter.
Detailed information on configuration and deployment can be found in the wiki
This project was originally created by Baden Erb (@badenerb)
Current maintainers: