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Live statistics from 3,508 SSH sessions captured over approximately 3 days of deployment.

Global metrics

Metric Value
Total sessions 3,508
Unique IPs 126
Auth attempts 3,610
Successful auths 1,193
Total commands 3,571
Average duration 86s (1.4 min)
Max duration 2,179s (36.3 min)
Sessions > 1 min 54
Sessions > 5 min 11

Signal vs noise

Category Count % Description
bot_ephemeral 2,552 72.7% < 5 seconds, scanner pass-through
bot_exec_scanner 877 25.0% No PTY, single exec command
bot_recon 1 0.03% PTY but pure discovery only
Signal 78 2.2% Human-like, multi-tactic interaction

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Global (all 3,508 sessions)

Tactic Events
discovery 1,155
credential-access 246
command-and-control 19
privilege-escalation 8
exfiltration 6

Signal only (78 sessions)

Tactic Events
discovery 70
credential-access 65
privilege-escalation 5

5/5 key MITRE tactics observed in signal sessions.

Top commands

Command Count
printf 960
uname 755
ls 640
echo 282
/bin/./uname 148
cat 140
find 122
ps 66
hostname 64
ip 63

Note: /bin/./uname (148 occurrences) is the Kinsing botnet signature — the dot-slash trick to evade simple command matching.

Top usernames

Username Attempts
root 1,146
admin 294
ubuntu 259
sol 213
user 170
debian 99
solana 90
solv 66
test 60
oracle 39

The presence of sol (213) and solana (90) in the top 10 indicates scanners specifically targeting Solana validator nodes.

Top passwords

Password Attempts
123456 186
admin 122
Gr1zzly!Pr0d_2026 82
1234 75
123 68
solana 57
ubuntu 54
password 53
12345678 50
root 43

Gr1zzly!Pr0d_2026 is an internal test credential that leaked into brute-force wordlists within days. See Key findings for analysis.

Persona performance

Persona Signal sessions Avg duration Avg commands
fintech_trading 34 94s 1,349
crypto_validator 17 148s 643
corp_ad 15 86s 555

The fintech persona attracts 2.4× more interaction than corp_ad, likely due to the AWS credentials and trading API surface.

Dual-use output

Stream Events
Defensive 8,668
Offensive 4,910
Sessions processed 3,337