Welcome to the Cowrie Docker GitHub repository
This is the official repository for the Cowrie SSH and Telnet Honeypot Docker effort. It contains Dockerfiles that you can use to build Cowrie Docker images.
Quick Trial
To run Cowrie in Docker locally with creating your own image, run
docker run -p 2222:2222/tcp cowrie/cowrie
Then run an SSH client to port 2222 to test it:
ssh -p 2222 root@localhost
What is Cowrie
Cowrie is a medium interaction SSH and Telnet honeypot designed to log brute force attacks and the shell interaction performed by the attacker.
Building
Note that you will need to install Docker.
Run the following command to build all the images:
$ make all
Configuring Cowrie in Docker
Cowrie in Docker is set up to use an 'etc' volume to store configuration
data. Create cowrie.cfg inside the etc volume with the
following contents to enable Telnet in your Cowrie Honeypot in
Docker
[telnet]
enabled = yes