ARG BASE_IMAGE=debian:bookworm-slim # ── Stage 1: build the static auth-helper credential-capture binary ────────── # Compiled against musl so the resulting binary is fully static — runs on # any glibc/musl Linux without a libc version match. Stripped at link # time via -s so `file /usr/sbin/auth-helper` reports a generic ELF. FROM debian:bookworm-slim AS auth-helper-build RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends musl-tools \ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* COPY auth-helper/auth-helper.c /tmp/auth-helper.c RUN musl-gcc -static -O2 -s -Wall -Wextra \ -o /auth-helper /tmp/auth-helper.c # ── Stage 2: the actual SSH decky image ────────────────────────────────────── FROM ${BASE_IMAGE} RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \ openssh-server \ sudo \ rsyslog \ curl \ wget \ vim \ nano \ net-tools \ procps \ htop \ git \ inotify-tools \ psmisc \ iproute2 \ iputils-ping \ ca-certificates \ nmap \ jq \ python3 \ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* RUN mkdir -p /var/run/sshd /root/.ssh /var/log/journal /var/lib/systemd/coredump \ && chmod 700 /var/lib/systemd/coredump # sshd_config: allow root + password auth; VERBOSE so session lines carry # client IP + session PID (needed for file-capture attribution). RUN sed -i \ -e 's|^#\?PermitRootLogin.*|PermitRootLogin yes|' \ -e 's|^#\?PasswordAuthentication.*|PasswordAuthentication yes|' \ -e 's|^#\?ChallengeResponseAuthentication.*|ChallengeResponseAuthentication no|' \ -e 's|^#\?LogLevel.*|LogLevel VERBOSE|' \ /etc/ssh/sshd_config # rsyslog: forward auth.* and user.* to PID 1's stdout in RFC 5424 format. # /proc/1/fd/1 is the container-stdout fd Docker attached — writing there # surfaces lines in `docker logs` without needing a named pipe + relay cat # (which would be readable AND writable by any root-in-container process). # # Filter: drop sshd's native chatter ("Failed password", "Connection from", # "Connection closed by …") and the pam_unix lines emitted from sshd's PAM # stack (programname is inherited from the calling process, so pam_unix(sshd:*) # lines arrive as programname=sshd). These add no signal — our auth-helper # writes structured login_attempt events directly to /proc/1/fd/1 and # capture.sh emits sessions via `logger -t systemd-journal`. sudo / login / # su pam_unix lines are NOT dropped (different programname), so privilege # escalation telemetry still flows. RUN printf '%s\n' \ '# auth + user events → container stdout as RFC 5424' \ '$template RFC5424fmt,"<%PRI%>1 %TIMESTAMP:::date-rfc3339% %HOSTNAME% %APP-NAME% %PROCID% %MSGID% %STRUCTURED-DATA% %msg%\n"' \ ':programname, isequal, "sshd" stop' \ 'auth,authpriv.* /proc/1/fd/1;RFC5424fmt' \ 'user.* /proc/1/fd/1;RFC5424fmt' \ > /etc/rsyslog.d/50-journal-forward.conf # Silence default catch-all rules so we own auth/user routing exclusively. # Also disable rsyslog's privilege drop: PID 1's stdout (/proc/1/fd/1) is # owned by root, so a syslog-user rsyslogd gets EACCES and silently drops # every auth/user line (bash CMD events + file_captured emissions). RUN sed -i \ -e 's|^\(\*\.\*;auth,authpriv\.none\)|#\1|' \ -e 's|^auth,authpriv\.\*|#auth,authpriv.*|' \ -e 's|^\$PrivDropToUser|#$PrivDropToUser|' \ -e 's|^\$PrivDropToGroup|#$PrivDropToGroup|' \ /etc/rsyslog.conf # auth-helper: drop the static binary into /usr/sbin and wire pam_exec # into the sshd PAM stack so every password attempt (success or fail) is # captured before pam_unix runs. `optional` so a malfunctioning helper # never blocks auth — fail-open is correct: missed creds are recoverable, # a borked honeypot is not. expose_authtok writes the password to the # helper's stdin, NUL-terminated. COPY --from=auth-helper-build /auth-helper /usr/sbin/auth-helper RUN chmod 755 /usr/sbin/auth-helper && \ sed -i '1i auth optional pam_exec.so expose_authtok stdout /usr/sbin/auth-helper' \ /etc/pam.d/sshd # Sudo: log to syslog (auth facility) AND a local file with full I/O capture RUN echo 'Defaults logfile="/var/log/sudo.log"' >> /etc/sudoers && \ echo 'Defaults syslog=auth' >> /etc/sudoers && \ echo 'Defaults log_input,log_output' >> /etc/sudoers # Lived-in environment: motd, shell aliases, fake project files RUN echo "Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS" > /etc/issue.net && \ echo "Welcome to Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.15.0-88-generic x86_64)" > /etc/motd && \ echo "" >> /etc/motd && \ echo " * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com" >> /etc/motd && \ echo " * Management: https://landscape.canonical.com" >> /etc/motd && \ echo " * Support: https://ubuntu.com/advantage" >> /etc/motd RUN echo 'alias ll="ls -alF"' >> /root/.bashrc && \ echo 'alias la="ls -A"' >> /root/.bashrc && \ echo 'alias l="ls -CF"' >> /root/.bashrc && \ echo 'export HISTSIZE=1000' >> /root/.bashrc && \ echo 'export HISTFILESIZE=2000' >> /root/.bashrc && \ echo 'PROMPT_COMMAND='"'"'logger -p user.info -t bash "CMD uid=$UID user=$USER src=${SSH_CLIENT%% *} pwd=$PWD cmd=$(history 1 | sed "s/^ *[0-9]* *//")";'"'" >> /root/.bashrc # Fake project files to look lived-in RUN mkdir -p /root/projects /root/backups /var/www/html && \ printf '# TODO: migrate DB to new server\n# check cron jobs\n# update SSL cert\n' > /root/notes.txt && \ printf 'DB_HOST=10.0.0.5\nDB_USER=admin\nDB_PASS=changeme123\nDB_NAME=prod_db\n' > /root/projects/.env && \ printf '[Unit]\nDescription=App Server\n[Service]\nExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 /opt/app/server.py\n' > /root/projects/app.service # Stage all capture sources in a scratch dir. Nothing here survives the layer: # _build_stealth.py packs syslog_bridge.py + emit_capture.py + capture.sh into # XOR+gzip+base64 blobs embedded directly in /entrypoint.sh, and the whole # /tmp/build tree is wiped at the end of the RUN — so the final image has no # `.py` file under /opt and no `journal-relay` script under /usr/libexec/udev. COPY entrypoint.sh capture.sh syslog_bridge.py emit_capture.py \ argv_zap.c _build_stealth.py /tmp/build/ COPY sessrec/ /tmp/build/sessrec/ # argv_zap is compiled into a shared object disguised as a multiarch # udev-companion library (sits next to real libudev.so.1). sessrec is built # as /usr/libexec/login-session, installed as root's login shell so every # interactive SSH session is pty-recorded. gcc is installed only for this # build step and purged in the same layer. RUN set -eu \ && apt-get update \ && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends gcc libc6-dev make \ && mkdir -p /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/libexec/udev /usr/libexec \ && gcc -O2 -fPIC -shared \ -o /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev-shared.so.1 \ /tmp/build/argv_zap.c -ldl \ && make -C /tmp/build/sessrec install PREFIX=/usr/libexec \ && grep -q '^/usr/libexec/login-session$' /etc/shells \ || echo '/usr/libexec/login-session' >> /etc/shells \ && sed -i 's|^root:\([^:]*\):\([^:]*\):\([^:]*\):\([^:]*\):\([^:]*\):.*$|root:\1:\2:\3:\4:\5:/usr/libexec/login-session|' /etc/passwd \ && apt-get purge -y gcc libc6-dev make \ && apt-get autoremove -y \ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \ && ln -sf /usr/bin/inotifywait /usr/libexec/udev/kmsg-watch \ && python3 /tmp/build/_build_stealth.py \ && rm -rf /tmp/build EXPOSE 22 HEALTHCHECK --interval=30s --timeout=5s --start-period=10s --retries=3 \ CMD kill -0 1 || exit 1 ENTRYPOINT ["/entrypoint.sh"]