85.211.244.194
- Sensor
- hp-use-01
- Source
- cowrie
- Status
- triaged
- Event time
- Received
Verdict
S4successful_intrusionConfidence 97%Escalate: yesReasoning
The session shows a successful SSH login using default credentials admin/admin. Per rubric, any successful login constitutes a foothold even if no post-login commands were executed. Retrieved session commands confirm there were no commands, downloads, or uploads after login, so this is a foothold without evidence of malware delivery or persistence.
Recommended action
Treat as confirmed honeypot compromise attempt; retain session artifacts, block or rate-limit the source if appropriate, and monitor for repeat access or follow-on payload delivery from this IP.
Routing
- Primary model
- gpt-4o-mini
- Final model
- gpt-5.4
- Escalated to strong model
- yes
- Prompt version
- triage-v4
- Input tokens
- 4,668
- Output tokens
- 244
- Cost
- $0.006017
- Latency
- 5,930 ms
- Verdict at
- 2026-09-25 13:35:35Z
Tool trace
0. get_session_commands· 0 ms
Arguments{ "session_id": "fd17d8c0a375" }Result{ "commands": [], "downloads": [], "session_id": "fd17d8c0a375", "command_count": 0, "download_count": 0, "clipped_commands": 0, "commands_truncated": false, "downloads_truncated": false }
Raw session JSON
{
"events": [
{
"url": null,
"uuid": "28d6f35e-aed5-11f1-a29a-0242ac120002",
"input": null,
"dst_ip": "172.18.0.2",
"sensor": "hp-use-01",
"shasum": null,
"src_ip": "85.211.244.194",
"eventid": "cowrie.session.connect",
"message": "New connection: 85.211.244.194:42850 (172.18.0.2:2222) [session: fd17d8c0a375]",
"outfile": null,
"session": "fd17d8c0a375",
"version": null,
"dst_port": 2222,
"password": null,
"protocol": "ssh",
"src_port": 42850,
"username": null,
"timestamp": "2026-09-25T13:35:33.990022Z",
"duration_ms": null
},
{
"url": null,
"uuid": "28d6f35e-aed5-11f1-a29a-0242ac120002",
"input": null,
"dst_ip": "172.18.0.2",
"sensor": "hp-use-01",
"shasum": null,
"src_ip": "85.211.244.194",
"eventid": "cowrie.client.version",
"message": "Remote SSH version: SSH-2.0-libssh2_1.11.1",
"outfile": null,
"session": "fd17d8c0a375",
"version": "SSH-2.0-libssh2_1.11.1",
"dst_port": 2222,
"password": null,
"protocol": "ssh",
"src_port": 42850,
"username": null,
"timestamp": "2026-09-25T13:35:34.007722Z",
"duration_ms": null
},
{
"url": null,
"uuid": "28d6f35e-aed5-11f1-a29a-0242ac120002",
"encCS": [
"chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com",
"aes256-gcm@openssh.com",
"aes128-gcm@openssh.com",
"aes256-ctr",
"aes192-ctr",
"aes128-ctr",
"aes256-cbc",
"rijndael-cbc@lysator.liu.se",
"aes192-cbc",
"aes128-cbc",
"arcfour128",
"arcfour",
"3des-cbc"
],
"hassh": "19532158b559096b89b1a5f7d17175b2",
"input": null,
"macCS": [
"hmac-sha2-256",
"hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com",
"hmac-sha2-512",
"hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com",
"hmac-sha1",
"hmac-sha1-etm@openssh.com",
"hmac-sha1-96",
"hmac-md5",
"hmac-md5-96"
],
"compCS": [
"none"
],
"dst_ip": "172.18.0.2",
"langCS": [
""
],
"sensor": "hp-use-01",
"shasum": null,
"src_ip": "85.211.244.194",
"eventid": "cowrie.client.kex",
"kexAlgs": [
"curve25519-sha256",
"curve25519-sha256@libssh.org",
"ecdh-sha2-nistp256",
"ecdh-sha2-nistp384",
"ecdh-sha2-nistp521",
"diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256",
"diffie-hellman-group16-sha512",
"diffie-hellman-group18-sha512",
"diffie-hellman-group14-sha256",
"diffie-hellman-group14-sha1",
"diffie-hellman-group1-sha1",
"diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1",
"ext-info-c",
"kex-strict-c-v00@openssh.com"
],
"keyAlgs": [
"ecdsa-sha2-nistp256",
"ecdsa-sha2-nistp384",
"ecdsa-sha2-nistp521",
"ecdsa-sha2-nistp256-cert-v01@openssh.com",
"ecdsa-sha2-nistp384-cert-v01@openssh.com",
"ecdsa-sha2-nistp521-cert-v01@openssh.com",
"ssh-ed25519",
"ssh-ed25519-cert-v01@openssh.com",
"rsa-sha2-512",
"rsa-sha2-256",
"rsa-sha2-512-cert-v01@openssh.com",
"rsa-sha2-256-cert-v01@openssh.com",
"ssh-rsa",
"ssh-rsa-cert-v01@openssh.com"
],
"message": "SSH client hassh fingerprint: 19532158b559096b89b1a5f7d17175b2",
"outfile": null,
"session": "fd17d8c0a375",
"version": null,
"dst_port": 2222,
"password": null,
"protocol": "ssh",
"src_port": 42850,
"username": null,
"timestamp": "2026-09-25T13:35:34.238507Z",
"duration_ms": null,
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},
{
"url": null,
"uuid": "28d6f35e-aed5-11f1-a29a-0242ac120002",
"input": null,
"dst_ip": "172.18.0.2",
"sensor": "hp-use-01",
"shasum": null,
"src_ip": "85.211.244.194",
"eventid": "cowrie.login.success",
"message": "login attempt [admin/admin] succeeded",
"outfile": null,
"session": "fd17d8c0a375",
"version": null,
"dst_port": 2222,
"password": "admin",
"protocol": "ssh",
"src_port": 42850,
"username": "admin",
"timestamp": "2026-09-25T13:35:35.012562Z",
"duration_ms": null
},
{
"url": null,
"uuid": "28d6f35e-aed5-11f1-a29a-0242ac120002",
"input": null,
"dst_ip": "172.18.0.2",
"sensor": "hp-use-01",
"shasum": null,
"src_ip": "85.211.244.194",
"eventid": "cowrie.session.closed",
"message": "Connection lost after 1283 milliseconds",
"outfile": null,
"session": "fd17d8c0a375",
"version": null,
"dst_port": 2222,
"password": null,
"protocol": "ssh",
"src_port": 42850,
"username": null,
"timestamp": "2026-09-25T13:35:35.273215Z",
"duration_ms": 1283
}
],
"sensor": "hp-use-01",
"source": "cowrie",
"src_ip": "85.211.244.194",
"session_id": "fd17d8c0a375"
}