https://blog.efespain.com/en/tags/cowrie/A honeypot in some corner of the network. Every infection, a story worth telling.HugoeneFeSpaineFeSpain2026 eFeSpainSat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000https://blog.efespain.com/en/chapter-11/Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000https://blog.efespain.com/en/chapter-11/A 1,177-byte loader landed: nine lines of wget, one per architecture, in the style I have already opened three times on this blog. I was going to file it as a repeat offender and get on with my day. I opened it anyway, out of habit — and the first thing I saw was that it had a few characters too many.https://blog.efespain.com/en/chapter-1/Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000https://blog.efespain.com/en/chapter-1/I keep a honeypot in some corner of the network. Most of it is noise: scanners that look and leave. Until one got in, decided it was the administrator, and pushed its critter up through the service door.https://blog.efespain.com/en/chapter-3/Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000https://blog.efespain.com/en/chapter-3/Another one walks in and drops its critter. But this one left a door open on its own delivery server — and inside was the source code. A multi-architecture Mirai, caught red-handed.https://blog.efespain.com/en/chapter-5/Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000https://blog.efespain.com/en/chapter-5/The previous critter kicked the door in with wget. This one walked in with an SSH key in its pocket, cleared the house of rival miners, and settled in with a professional's manners. It's RedTail, and it plays in a different league.