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Infection Monkey

Data center Security Testing Tool


Welcome to the Infection Monkey!

The Infection Monkey is an open source security tool for testing a data center's resiliency to perimeter breaches and internal server infection. The Monkey uses various methods to self propagate across a data center and reports success to a centralized Monkey Island server.

The Infection Monkey is comprised of two parts:

  • Monkey - A tool which infects other machines and propagates to them
  • Monkey Island - A dedicated server to control and visualize the Infection Monkey's progress inside the data center

To read more about the Monkey, visit http://infectionmonkey.com

Main Features

The Infection Monkey uses the following techniques and exploits to propagate to other machines.

  • Multiple propagation techniques:
    • Predefined passwords
    • Common logical exploits
    • Password stealing using Mimikatz
  • Multiple exploit methods:
    • SSH
    • SMB
    • RDP
    • WMI
    • Shellshock
    • Conficker
    • SambaCry
    • Elastic Search (CVE-2015-1427)

Setup

Check out the Setup page in the Wiki or a quick getting started guide.

Building the Monkey from source

If you want to build the monkey from source, see Setup and follow the instructions at the readme files under infection_monkey and monkey_island.

License

Copyright (c) Guardicore Ltd

See the LICENSE file for license rights and limitations (GPLv3).