Cowrie

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Tool and Usage

Project details

License
Custom license
Programming language
Python
Author
Michel Oosterhof
Latest release
2.3.0
Latest release date

Project health

85
This score is calculated by different factors, like project age, last release date, etc.

Usage and audience

Cowrie is commonly used for information gathering, learning, security monitoring, or threat discovery. Target users for this tool are security professionals and system administrators.

Tool review and remarks

The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:

Strengths

  • + More than 50 contributors
  • + More than 1000 GitHub stars

Author and Maintainers

Cowrie is under development by Michel Oosterhof.

Installation

Supported operating systems

Cowrie is known to work on Linux.

Dependencies

Several dependencies are required to use Cowrie.

  • Twisted
  • appdirs
  • attrs
  • configparser
  • cryptography
  • gmpy2
  • packaging
  • pyOpenSSL
  • pyasn1_modules
  • pycrypto
  • pyparsing
  • python-dateutil
  • service_identity
  • tftpy

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Categories

This tool is categorized as a SSH honeypot and honeypot.