The TTP worker subscribes to attacker.session.ended but no upstream
component published it — the rule pack (R0001–R0030) therefore never
fired on live SSH traffic even after the consume-side wiring landed
in E.3.18a/b/c.
The collector now hosts a per-attacker_ip command index
(_SessionAggregator) that watches the same parsed-event stream as
_publish_log. Shell `command` events are appended to a per-IP list;
on `session_recorded` the aggregator slices the list to commands
inside the [ended_at - duration_s, ended_at] window and publishes
attacker.session.ended with the session metadata + commands list.
The TTP worker's _build_events fan-out (E.3.18b) turns each command
into a source_kind="command" TaggerEvent that the RuleEngineTagger
(E.3.18c) matches against R0001–R0030.
Memory bound: per-IP entries TTL-evict at DECNET_COLLECTOR_SESSION_AGG_TTL_SEC
(default 3600 s). Publish failures are swallowed in the aggregator —
a misbehaving bus cannot stall the per-container stream threads.
Honeypot SSH containers run `PROMPT_COMMAND` that calls
`logger --rfc5424 --msgid command -t bash "CMD …"`. The Docker-stdout
reader prepends an outer RFC5424 envelope (HOSTNAME=<decky>,
APP-NAME=1, MSGID=NIL) around that inner syslog line. Both the
collector parser (`parse_rfc5424`) and the correlation parser
(`parse_line`) saw the outer NIL MSGID and emitted `event_type="-"`
for every shell command — which:
- kept `Attacker.commands` rows missing `command_text`
- left R0001–R0030 (the pattern rule pack that matches shell
commands) with no haystack
- made `decnet.collector.log` show `event written … type=-`
for the very lines that should be `type=command`
Both parsers now detect the inner-RFC5424 shape (`<TS> <HOST> <APP>
<PROCID> <MSGID> <rest>`) when the outer MSGID is NIL and the SD-arm
is also NIL, and re-extract HOSTNAME / APP-NAME / MSGID / remainder
from the body. The collector parser also recovers the post-SD msg
tail when the SD block isn't `relay@55555` (the bash CMD line carries
a `[timeQuality …]` block) so the kv-fallback can find `src_ip`.
Mirroring tests in tests/collector and tests/correlation pin both
the unwrap and the regression guard for non-double-wrapped lines.
sshd, pam_unix, sudo, CRON, systemd, kernel, rsyslogd, and dbus-daemon
all share the SSH/telnet decky containers and write to the same syslog
socket as DECNET's own emitters. Their output was being parsed and
ingested into the JSON stream, the dashboard, and the profiler — pure
noise: sshd's "Failed password for root from X" duplicates the
auth-helper's structured auth_attempt event, pam_unix repeats it again,
CRON/systemd say nothing about attacker behavior.
Drop these APP-NAMEs in _should_ingest before the JSON write and bus
publish. Raw .log file still captures everything for forensics. The
denylist is overridable with DECNET_COLLECTOR_DROP_APPS so operators
can extend it without code changes.
SSH/telnet decky containers emit shell commands via `logger -t bash "CMD …"`
which produces RFC 5424 lines with MSGID=NIL. Both parsers were leaving
event_type="-", so the behavioral profiler's `_COMMAND_EVENT_TYPES` filter
silently dropped them — the IP profile existed but no command transcripts
or artifacts. Confirmed in the wild: 44/48 events from one attacker were
event_type="-".
Rewrite event_type to "command" in both parsers when MSGID=NIL and the
msg starts with "CMD ". Correlation parser also extracts the cmd= payload
into fields["command"] so the profiler can build the transcript; collector
parser leaves fields={} to avoid duplicate pills in the dashboard.
