Which tool is used to trap adversaries by emulating a legitimate website?

• A. Spider Honeypots
• B. Honeynets
• C. Snort
• D. OSSIM

Answer: (A)

The idea being tested is using a decoy to lure attackers by pretending to be a real service. A web-based honeypot is designed to imitate a legitimate website so that adversaries will interact with it, thinking they’ve found a real target, while all their actions are logged and analyzed.

A spider honeypot is a specialized type of honeypot that presents fake web pages and server behavior to attract website-targeted attacks and automated bots. By mimicking legitimate site content and interactions, it traps and records attacker techniques, tools, and payloads, providing valuable information about threats without risking real assets.

Honeynets are larger-scale deployments of multiple honeypots across a network, useful for studying broader attacker behavior across systems, but they aren’t specifically defined by emulating a legitimate website. Snort is an intrusion detection system that monitors and analyzes traffic, and OSSIM is a SIEM/monitoring platform; neither is primarily about deceiving attackers with a fake website.

So the best fit for trapping adversaries by emulating a legitimate website is a spider honeypot.