Cowrie
Tool and Usage
Project details
- License
- Custom license
- Programming language
- Python
- Author
- Michel Oosterhof
- Latest release
- 2.5.0
- Latest release date
Project health
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
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
Cowrie alternatives
Similar tools to Cowrie:
Dockpot
Dockpot uses Docker containers and HonSSH to create on-demand SSH honeypots. It forwards traffic for analysis and learning about attack patterns.
HonSSH
HonSSH is a high-interaction SSH honeypot to collect information about attackers that target the SSH service.
SSH Honeypot
SSH Honeypot is as the name implies a honeypot to emulate the SSH service. It can be used to learn about threats and commands used by attackers.
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Categories
This tool is categorized as a SSH honeypot and honeypot.