Time spent: 16 hours spent in total
I deployed two honeypots, dionaea - a low interaction honeypots whose goal is to get malware exploiting vulnerabilities exposed by services exposed to a network
and p0f - which attempts to fingerprint various attributes of the attackers machine.
At first I was not able to create firewall rules from the command line, because the Compute Engine API was not enabled in the project settings. That made the firewall creation process appear to take an infinite amount of time. Upon enabling it, firewall rules were created within a few seconds. Inclusion of this step in the tutorials would have saved a considerable amount of time.
Secondly, I was unable to log into the mhn-admin panel, due to firewall configurations. Apparently, the firewall rules created during the assignment are not automatically applied (or did were not sufficient) to allow http / https request to be made. I had to manually configure the firewall from the GCP settings in order to fix this.
None of the attackers provided any malware samples.