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192.42.116.50

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

Verdict

S4successful_intrusionConfidence 97%Escalate: yes

Reasoning

The session achieved a successful SSH login using root/admin after one failed attempt, which constitutes a foothold on the honeypot. Per the rubric, any successful login is severity 4 unless there is evidence of payload delivery or persistence. Retrieved session commands show no post-login commands, downloads, or uploads, so there is no basis to raise this to malware_delivery or persistence_attempt, and it remains a successful intrusion.

Recommended action

Escalate for review, retain full session artifacts, and block or monitor the source IP for additional 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
4,669
Output tokens
280
Cost
$0.006300
Latency
4,623 ms
Verdict at
2026-09-13 21:40:25Z

Tool trace

  1. 0. get_session_commands· 0 ms

    Arguments
    {
  "session_id": "c5f4f0bad12b"
}
    Result
    {
  "commands": [],
  "downloads": [],
  "session_id": "c5f4f0bad12b",
  "command_count": 0,
  "download_count": 0,
  "clipped_commands": 0,
  "commands_truncated": false,
  "downloads_truncated": false
}
Raw session JSON
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      "uuid": "28d6f35e-aed5-11f1-a29a-0242ac120002",
      "input": null,
      "dst_ip": "172.18.0.2",
      "sensor": "hp-use-01",
      "shasum": null,
      "src_ip": "192.42.116.50",
      "eventid": "cowrie.session.connect",
      "message": "New connection: 192.42.116.50:41482 (172.18.0.2:2222) [session: c5f4f0bad12b]",
      "outfile": null,
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      "version": null,
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      "username": null,
      "timestamp": "2026-09-13T21:40:03.638253Z",
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      "sensor": "hp-use-01",
      "shasum": null,
      "src_ip": "192.42.116.50",
      "eventid": "cowrie.client.version",
      "message": "Remote SSH version: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_10.5",
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        "hmac-sha1-etm@openssh.com",
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