diff --git a/examples/sftp/src/test/java/org/example/SftpContainerTest.java b/examples/sftp/src/test/java/org/example/SftpContainerTest.java
index e54b5b72036..3a6593ea736 100644
--- a/examples/sftp/src/test/java/org/example/SftpContainerTest.java
+++ b/examples/sftp/src/test/java/org/example/SftpContainerTest.java
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package org.example;
 
 import com.jcraft.jsch.ChannelSftp;
+import com.jcraft.jsch.HostKey;
 import com.jcraft.jsch.JSch;
 import com.jcraft.jsch.Session;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
@@ -10,6 +11,7 @@
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.util.Base64;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 
 import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
@@ -49,4 +51,55 @@ void test() throws Exception {
                 .noneMatch(item -> item.toString().contains("testcontainers/file.txt"));
         }
     }
+
+    @Test
+    void testHostKeyCheck() throws Exception {
+        try (
+            GenericContainer<?> sftp = new GenericContainer<>("atmoz/sftp:alpine-3.7")
+                .withCopyFileToContainer(
+                    MountableFile.forClasspathResource("testcontainers/", 0777),
+                    "/home/foo/upload/testcontainers"
+                )
+                .withCopyFileToContainer(
+                    MountableFile.forClasspathResource("./ssh_host_rsa_key", 0400),
+                    "/etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key"
+                )
+                .withExposedPorts(22)
+                .withCommand("foo:pass:::upload")
+        ) {
+            sftp.start();
+            JSch jsch = new JSch();
+            Session jschSession = jsch.getSession("foo", sftp.getHost(), sftp.getMappedPort(22));
+            jschSession.setPassword("pass");
+            // hostKeyString is string starting with AAAA from file known_hosts or ssh_host_*_key.pub
+            // generate the files with:
+            // ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 3072 -f ssh_host_rsa_key < /dev/null
+            String hostKeyString =
+                "AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABgQCXMxVRzmFWxfrRB9XiZ/3HNM+xkYYE+IMGuOZD" +
+                "04M2ezU25XjT6cPajzpFmzTxR2qEpRCKHeVnSG5nT6UXQp7760brTN7m5sDasbMnHgYh" +
+                "fC/3of2k6qTR9X/JHRpgwzq5+6FtEe41w1H1dXoNIr4YTKnLijSp8MKqBtPPNUpzEVb9" +
+                "5YKZGdCDoCbbYOyS/Dc8azUDo0mqM542J3nA2Sq9HCP0BAv43hrTAtCZodkB5wo18exb" +
+                "fPKsjGtA3de2npybFoSRbavZmT8L/b2iHZX6FRaqLsbYGKtszCWu5OU7WBX5g5QVlLfO" +
+                "nGQ+LsF6d6pX5LlMwEU14uu4gNPvZFOaZXtHNHZqnBcjd/sMaw5N/atFsPgtQ0vYnrEA" +
+                "D6oDjj0uXMsnmgUWTZBi3q2GBWWPqhE+0ASb2xBQGa+tWWTVYbuuYlA7hUX0URK8FcLw" +
+                "4UOYJjscDjnjlvQkghd2esP5NxV1NXkG2XYNHnf1E/tH4+AHJzy+qOQom7ehda96FZ8=";
+            HostKey hostKey = new HostKey(sftp.getHost(), Base64.getDecoder().decode(hostKeyString));
+            jschSession.getHostKeyRepository().add(hostKey, null);
+            jschSession.connect();
+            ChannelSftp channel = (ChannelSftp) jschSession.openChannel("sftp");
+            channel.connect();
+            assertThat(channel.ls("/upload/testcontainers")).anyMatch(item -> item.toString().contains("file.txt"));
+            assertThat(
+                new BufferedReader(
+                    new InputStreamReader(channel.get("/upload/testcontainers/file.txt"), StandardCharsets.UTF_8)
+                )
+                    .lines()
+                    .collect(Collectors.joining("\n"))
+            )
+                .contains("Testcontainers");
+            channel.rm("/upload/testcontainers/file.txt");
+            assertThat(channel.ls("/upload/testcontainers/"))
+                .noneMatch(item -> item.toString().contains("testcontainers/file.txt"));
+        }
+    }
 }
diff --git a/examples/sftp/src/test/resources/ssh_host_rsa_key b/examples/sftp/src/test/resources/ssh_host_rsa_key
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9987990b63d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/sftp/src/test/resources/ssh_host_rsa_key
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+-----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----
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diff --git a/examples/sftp/src/test/resources/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub b/examples/sftp/src/test/resources/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..57b3aebb050
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/sftp/src/test/resources/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+ssh-rsa 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 someone@localhost