Maltrail is a malicious traffic detection system, utilizing publicly available (black)lists containing malicious and/or generally suspicious trails, along with static trails compiled from various AV reports and custom user-defined lists. The tool monitors the network and sounds an alarm if a package appears suspicious.
Maltrail has its own approach to malicious network traffic detection, which can either be used as a dedicated or complementary solution to other IDS/IPS solutions.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Supports a wide range of blacklists (feeds).
- Trails for malicious entities are manually included from a wide variety of sources.
- Based on the Traffic -> Sensor <-> Server <-> Client architecture. The sensor sniffs packets, the server collects alarms from the sensor.
- Cross between a network intrusion detection system and a malware scanner. It loads signatures and compares them with the inspected IP packets. If there’s a match, the administrator is alerted on the dashboard.
- Uses (optional) advanced heuristic mechanisms that can help in discovery of unknown threats (e.g. new malware).
- 3rd party integrations:
- FreeBSD Port.
- OPNSense Gateway Plugin.
- D4 Project.
- BlackArch Linux.
- GScan 1.
- MalwareWorld 1
- oisd | domain blocklist.
- NextDNS.
- NoTracking.
- mobileAudit.
- Mobile-Security-Framework-MobSF.
Website: github.com/stamparm/maltrail
Support: Demo, FAQ
Developer: Maltrail developers
License: MIT License
Maltrail is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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