antoniopedro97/ssh-brute-force-investigation-Kali-Linux

# SSH Brute Force Investigation (Kali Linux Lab) ## Overview This project simulates and investigates an SSH brute-force attack in a controlled Linux environment using Kali Linux. The goal is to understand how authentication attacks work and how to analyze system logs from a security (SOC) perspective. ## Objectives - Simulate SSH brute-force attack - Generate real authentication logs - Analyze failed login attempts - Identify attacker activity - Practice basic SOC / incident response workflow ## Tools Used - Kali Linux - OpenSSH (SSH server) - Hydra - journalctl (system logs) - Linux CLI tools: grep, awk, wc ## Attack Simulation A brute-force attack was performed using Hydra against a local SSH service: hydra -t 4 -l root -P /usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt ssh://127.0.0.1