Cowrie SSH/Telnet Honeypot Tool
Cowrie is a medium interaction SSH and Telnet honeypot designed to log brute force attacks and the shell interaction performed by the attacker.
Features
Some interesting features:- Fake filesystem with the ability to add/remove files. A full fake filesystem resembling a Debian 5.0 installation is included
- Possibility of adding fake file contents so the attacker can cat files such as /etc/passwd. Only minimal file contents are included
- Session logs stored in an UML Compatible format for easy replay with original timings
- Cowrie saves files downloaded with wget/curl or uploaded with SFTP and scp for later inspection
Additional functionality over standard kippo:
- SFTP and SCP support for file upload
- Support for SSH exec commands
- Logging of direct-tcp connection attempts (ssh proxying)
- Forward SMTP connections to SMTP Honeypot (e.g. mailoney)
- Logging in JSON format for easy processing in log management solutions
- Many, many additional commands
Requirements
Software required:- Python 2.7+, (Python 3 not yet supported due to Twisted dependencies)
- python-virtualenv
For Python dependencies, see requirements.txt
Files of interest:
cowrie.cfg - Cowrie's configuration file. Default values can be found in cowrie.cfg.distdata/fs.pickle - fake filesystem
data/userdb.txt - credentials allowed or disallowed to access the honeypot
dl/ - files transferred from the attacker to the honeypot are stored here
honeyfs/ - file contents for the fake filesystem - feel free to copy a real system here or use bin/fsctl
log/cowrie.json - transaction output in JSON format
log/cowrie.log - log/debug output
log/tty/*.log - session logs
txtcmds/ - file contents for the fake commands
bin/createfs - used to create the fake filesystem
bin/playlog - utility to replay session logs
Cowrie is developed by Michel Oosterhof.
