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45.159.197.253

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

Verdict

S4successful_intrusionConfidence 97%Escalate: yes

Reasoning

The session shows a successful SSH login using root/admin credentials, which constitutes a foothold on the honeypot. Per the rubric, any successful login is at least severity 4 and falls under successful_intrusion unless there is evidence of malware delivery or persistence. Command retrieval shows no post-login commands and no downloads/uploads, so there is no basis to raise severity to 5 or reclassify the activity.

Recommended action

Escalate for review, preserve full session telemetry, and correlate this source with other successful-login activity; no malware or persistence actions were observed in this session.

Routing

Primary model
gpt-4o-mini
Final model
gpt-5.4
Escalated to strong model
yes
Prompt version
triage-v4
Input tokens
4,658
Output tokens
283
Cost
$0.006265
Latency
6,004 ms
Verdict at
2026-10-18 19:28:03Z

Tool trace

  1. 0. get_session_commands· 0 ms

    Arguments
    {
  "session_id": "5e5a3a9f419e"
}
    Result
    {
  "commands": [],
  "downloads": [],
  "session_id": "5e5a3a9f419e",
  "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": "45.159.197.253",
      "eventid": "cowrie.session.connect",
      "message": "New connection: 45.159.197.253:45078 (172.18.0.2:2222) [session: 5e5a3a9f419e]",
      "outfile": null,
      "session": "5e5a3a9f419e",
      "version": null,
      "dst_port": 2222,
      "password": null,
      "protocol": "ssh",
      "src_port": 45078,
      "username": null,
      "timestamp": "2026-10-18T19:22:59.962708Z",
      "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": "45.159.197.253",
      "eventid": "cowrie.client.version",
      "message": "Remote SSH version: SSH-2.0-Go",
      "outfile": null,
      "session": "5e5a3a9f419e",
      "version": "SSH-2.0-Go",
      "dst_port": 2222,
      "password": null,
      "protocol": "ssh",
      "src_port": 45078,
      "username": null,
      "timestamp": "2026-10-18T19:23:00.322845Z",
      "duration_ms": null
    },
    {
      "url": null,
      "uuid": "28d6f35e-aed5-11f1-a29a-0242ac120002",
      "encCS": [
        "aes128-gcm@openssh.com",
        "aes256-gcm@openssh.com",
        "chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com",
        "aes128-ctr",
        "aes192-ctr",
        "aes256-ctr"
      ],
      "hassh": "16443846184eafde36765c9bab2f4397",
      "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": "45.159.197.253",
      "eventid": "cowrie.client.kex",
      "kexAlgs": [
        "mlkem768x25519-sha256",
        "curve25519-sha256",
        "curve25519-sha256@libssh.org",
        "ecdh-sha2-nistp256",
        "ecdh-sha2-nistp384",
        "ecdh-sha2-nistp521",
        "diffie-hellman-group14-sha256",
        "diffie-hellman-group14-sha1",
        "ext-info-c",
        "kex-strict-c-v00@openssh.com"
      ],
      "keyAlgs": [
        "rsa-sha2-256-cert-v01@openssh.com",
        "rsa-sha2-512-cert-v01@openssh.com",
        "ssh-rsa-cert-v01@openssh.com",
        "ssh-dss-cert-v01@openssh.com",
        "ecdsa-sha2-nistp256-cert-v01@openssh.com",
        "ecdsa-sha2-nistp384-cert-v01@openssh.com",
        "ecdsa-sha2-nistp521-cert-v01@openssh.com",
        "ssh-ed25519-cert-v01@openssh.com",
        "ecdsa-sha2-nistp256",
        "ecdsa-sha2-nistp384",
        "ecdsa-sha2-nistp521",
        "rsa-sha2-256",
        "rsa-sha2-512",
        "ssh-rsa",
        "ssh-dss",
        "ssh-ed25519"
      ],
      "message": "SSH client hassh fingerprint: 16443846184eafde36765c9bab2f4397",
      "outfile": null,
      "session": "5e5a3a9f419e",
      "version": null,
      "dst_port": 2222,
      "password": null,
      "protocol": "ssh",
      "src_port": 45078,
      "username": null,
      "timestamp": "2026-10-18T19:23:00.334205Z",
      "duration_ms": null,
      "hasshAlgorithms": "mlkem768x25519-sha256,curve25519-sha256,curve25519-sha256@libssh.org,ecdh-sha2-nistp256,ecdh-sha2-nistp384,ecdh-sha2-nistp521,diffie-hellman-group14-sha256,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1,ext-info-c,kex-strict-c-v00@openssh.com;aes128-gcm@openssh.com,aes256-gcm@openssh.com,chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com,aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr;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": "45.159.197.253",
      "eventid": "cowrie.login.success",
      "message": "login attempt [root/admin] succeeded",
      "outfile": null,
      "session": "5e5a3a9f419e",
      "version": null,
      "dst_port": 2222,
      "password": "admin",
      "protocol": "ssh",
      "src_port": 45078,
      "username": "root",
      "timestamp": "2026-10-18T19:23:02.532228Z",
      "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": "45.159.197.253",
      "eventid": "cowrie.session.closed",
      "message": "Connection lost after 302671 milliseconds",
      "outfile": null,
      "session": "5e5a3a9f419e",
      "version": null,
      "dst_port": 2222,
      "password": null,
      "protocol": "ssh",
      "src_port": 45078,
      "username": null,
      "timestamp": "2026-10-18T19:28:02.635190Z",
      "duration_ms": 302671
    }
  ],
  "sensor": "hp-use-01",
  "source": "cowrie",
  "src_ip": "45.159.197.253",
  "session_id": "5e5a3a9f419e"
}