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2.57.122.150

Sensor
hp-use-01
Source
cowrie
Status
triaged
Event time
Received

Verdict

S4successful_intrusionConfidence 97%Escalate: yes

Reasoning

A successful SSH login occurred using root/1234, which constitutes a foothold on the honeypot and maps directly to severity 4. Tool output confirms there were no post-login commands or payload transfers, so there is no evidence to raise this to malware delivery or persistence. The weak default-style credential suggests opportunistic automation rather than a more advanced intrusion, but the achieved login still requires escalation.

Recommended action

Escalate and review the source for related successful logins; block or rate-limit the IP if appropriate and retain session telemetry for correlation.

Routing

Primary model
gpt-4o-mini
Final model
gpt-5.4
Escalated to strong model
yes
Prompt version
triage-v4
Input tokens
4,654
Output tokens
276
Cost
$0.006169
Latency
6,649 ms
Verdict at
2026-09-18 14:30:17Z

Tool trace

  1. 0. get_session_commands· 0 ms

    Arguments
    {
  "session_id": "5e39d58d29a5"
}
    Result
    {
  "commands": [],
  "downloads": [],
  "session_id": "5e39d58d29a5",
  "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": "2.57.122.150",
      "eventid": "cowrie.session.connect",
      "message": "New connection: 2.57.122.150:58618 (172.18.0.2:2222) [session: 5e39d58d29a5]",
      "outfile": null,
      "session": "5e39d58d29a5",
      "version": null,
      "dst_port": 2222,
      "password": null,
      "protocol": "ssh",
      "src_port": 58618,
      "username": null,
      "timestamp": "2026-09-18T14:29:59.546499Z",
      "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": "2.57.122.150",
      "eventid": "cowrie.client.version",
      "message": "Remote SSH version: SSH-2.0-Go",
      "outfile": null,
      "session": "5e39d58d29a5",
      "version": "SSH-2.0-Go",
      "dst_port": 2222,
      "password": null,
      "protocol": "ssh",
      "src_port": 58618,
      "username": null,
      "timestamp": "2026-09-18T14:30:00.255136Z",
      "duration_ms": null
    },
    {
      "url": null,
      "uuid": "28d6f35e-aed5-11f1-a29a-0242ac120002",
      "encCS": [
        "aes128-ctr",
        "aes192-ctr",
        "aes256-ctr",
        "aes128-gcm@openssh.com",
        "aes256-gcm@openssh.com",
        "chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com",
        "arcfour256",
        "arcfour128",
        "arcfour",
        "3des-cbc",
        "aes128-cbc"
      ],
      "hassh": "2ec37a7cc8daf20b10e1ad6221061ca5",
      "input": null,
      "macCS": [
        "hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com",
        "hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com",
        "hmac-sha2-256",
        "hmac-sha2-512",
        "hmac-sha1",
        "hmac-sha1-96"
      ],
      "compCS": [
        "none"
      ],
      "dst_ip": "172.18.0.2",
      "langCS": [
        ""
      ],
      "sensor": "hp-use-01",
      "shasum": null,
      "src_ip": "2.57.122.150",
      "eventid": "cowrie.client.kex",
      "kexAlgs": [
        "curve25519-sha256@libssh.org",
        "ecdh-sha2-nistp256",
        "ecdh-sha2-nistp384",
        "ecdh-sha2-nistp521",
        "diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256",
        "diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1",
        "diffie-hellman-group16-sha512",
        "diffie-hellman-group14-sha256",
        "diffie-hellman-group14-sha1",
        "diffie-hellman-group1-sha1",
        "ext-info-c",
        "kex-strict-c-v00@openssh.com"
      ],
      "keyAlgs": [
        "ssh-rsa",
        "rsa-sha2-256",
        "rsa-sha2-512",
        "ssh-dss",
        "ecdsa-sha2-nistp256",
        "ecdsa-sha2-nistp384",
        "ecdsa-sha2-nistp521",
        "ssh-ed25519"
      ],
      "message": "SSH client hassh fingerprint: 2ec37a7cc8daf20b10e1ad6221061ca5",
      "outfile": null,
      "session": "5e39d58d29a5",
      "version": null,
      "dst_port": 2222,
      "password": null,
      "protocol": "ssh",
      "src_port": 58618,
      "username": null,
      "timestamp": "2026-09-18T14:30:00.259472Z",
      "duration_ms": null,
      "hasshAlgorithms": "curve25519-sha256@libssh.org,ecdh-sha2-nistp256,ecdh-sha2-nistp384,ecdh-sha2-nistp521,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group16-sha512,diffie-hellman-group14-sha256,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1,diffie-hellman-group1-sha1,ext-info-c,kex-strict-c-v00@openssh.com;aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,aes128-gcm@openssh.com,aes256-gcm@openssh.com,chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com,arcfour256,arcfour128,arcfour,3des-cbc,aes128-cbc;hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha1,hmac-sha1-96;none"
    },
    {
      "url": null,
      "uuid": "28d6f35e-aed5-11f1-a29a-0242ac120002",
      "input": null,
      "dst_ip": "172.18.0.2",
      "sensor": "hp-use-01",
      "shasum": null,
      "src_ip": "2.57.122.150",
      "eventid": "cowrie.login.success",
      "message": "login attempt [root/1234] succeeded",
      "outfile": null,
      "session": "5e39d58d29a5",
      "version": null,
      "dst_port": 2222,
      "password": "1234",
      "protocol": "ssh",
      "src_port": 58618,
      "username": "root",
      "timestamp": "2026-09-18T14:30:03.066656Z",
      "duration_ms": null
    },
    {
      "url": null,
      "uuid": "28d6f35e-aed5-11f1-a29a-0242ac120002",
      "input": null,
      "width": 58,
      "dst_ip": "172.18.0.2",
      "height": 96,
      "sensor": "hp-use-01",
      "shasum": null,
      "src_ip": "2.57.122.150",
      "eventid": "cowrie.client.size",
      "message": "Terminal Size: 58 96",
      "outfile": null,
      "session": "5e39d58d29a5",
      "version": null,
      "dst_port": 2222,
      "password": null,
      "protocol": "ssh",
      "src_port": 58618,
      "username": null,
      "timestamp": "2026-09-18T14:30:07.013403Z",
      "duration_ms": null
    },
    {
      "url": null,
      "uuid": "28d6f35e-aed5-11f1-a29a-0242ac120002",
      "input": null,
      "width": 41,
      "dst_ip": "172.18.0.2",
      "height": 115,
      "sensor": "hp-use-01",
      "shasum": null,
      "src_ip": "2.57.122.150",
      "eventid": "cowrie.client.size",
      "message": "Terminal Size: 41 115",
      "outfile": null,
      "session": "5e39d58d29a5",
      "version": null,
      "dst_port": 2222,
      "password": null,
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      "src_port": 58618,
      "username": null,
      "timestamp": "2026-09-18T14:30:08.890971Z",
      "duration_ms": null
    },
    {
      "url": null,
      "uuid": "28d6f35e-aed5-11f1-a29a-0242ac120002",
      "input": null,
      "width": 41,
      "dst_ip": "172.18.0.2",
      "height": 90,
      "sensor": "hp-use-01",
      "shasum": null,
      "src_ip": "2.57.122.150",
      "eventid": "cowrie.client.size",
      "message": "Terminal Size: 41 90",
      "outfile": null,
      "session": "5e39d58d29a5",
      "version": null,
      "dst_port": 2222,
      "password": null,
      "protocol": "ssh",
      "src_port": 58618,
      "username": null,
      "timestamp": "2026-09-18T14:30:13.580486Z",
      "duration_ms": null
    },
    {
      "url": null,
      "uuid": "28d6f35e-aed5-11f1-a29a-0242ac120002",
      "input": null,
      "width": 40,
      "dst_ip": "172.18.0.2",
      "height": 87,
      "sensor": "hp-use-01",
      "shasum": null,
      "src_ip": "2.57.122.150",
      "eventid": "cowrie.client.size",
      "message": "Terminal Size: 40 87",
      "outfile": null,
      "session": "5e39d58d29a5",
      "version": null,
      "dst_port": 2222,
      "password": null,
      "protocol": "ssh",
      "src_port": 58618,
      "username": null,
      "timestamp": "2026-09-18T14:30:15.652493Z",
      "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": "2.57.122.150",
      "eventid": "cowrie.session.closed",
      "message": "Connection lost after 17604 milliseconds",
      "outfile": null,
      "session": "5e39d58d29a5",
      "version": null,
      "dst_port": 2222,
      "password": null,
      "protocol": "ssh",
      "src_port": 58618,
      "username": null,
      "timestamp": "2026-09-18T14:30:17.150878Z",
      "duration_ms": 17604
    }
  ],
  "sensor": "hp-use-01",
  "source": "cowrie",
  "src_ip": "2.57.122.150",
  "session_id": "5e39d58d29a5"
}