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Will You Add? - Denial Of Service Attack
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- Cisco Website
Below you will find a simple SYN attack detection script that could be set to run every 5 minutes via a cronjob. In case of an attack you would receive and email with IP information; remember the IP information is usually spoofed.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#Simple Script to monitor syn attacks.
$syn_alert=15;
$hostname=`hostname`;
chomp($hostname);
$num_of_syn=`netstat -an | grep -c SYN`;
if($num_of_syn > $syn_alert)
{
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DDoS attacks have developed from the basic DoS attacks that were in the wild in 1997. These attacks originate from one source and can emerge from 100’s of locations around the world. The most visible attacks were those in February 2000, where high traffic sites (eBay/Amazon/Yahoo/CNN/Buy.Com/Datek/ZDNet) were faced with the task of handling huge amounts of spoofed traffic. In recent days, there have been attacks on Cisco which resulted in considerable downtime. Some public blacklist have also been targeted by spammers and taken out of business.
The following are different types of attacks.
Smurfing: The culprit sends a large amount of ICMP echo traffic at IP Broadcast addresses, all of it having a spoofed source address of a victim. This multiplies the traffic by the number of hosts.
Fraggle: This is the cousin of the smurf attack. This attack uses UDP echo packets in the same was as the ICMP echo traffic.
Ping Flood: The culprit attempts to disrupt service by sending ping request directly to the victim.
Syn Flood: Exploiting the flaw in the TCP three-way handshake, the culprit will create connection requests aimed at the victim. These requests are made with packets of unreachable source addresses. The server/device is not able to complete the connection and as a result the server ends up using the majority of its network resources trying to acknowledge each SYN.
Land: The culprit sends a forged packet with the same source and destination IP address. The victims system will be confused and crash or reboot.
Teardrop: The culprit sends two fragments that cannot be reassembled properly by manipulating the offset value of the packet and cause a reboot or halt of the victim’s system.
Bonk: This attack usually affects Windows OS machines. The culprit sends corrupted UDP Packets to DNS port 53. The system gets confused and crashes.
Boink: This is similar to the Bonk attack; accept that it targets multiple ports instead of only 53.
Worming: The worm sends a large amount of data to remote servers. It then verifies that a connection is active by attempting to contact a website outside the network. If successful, an attack is initiated. This would be in conjunction with a mass-mailing of some sort.
With the current TCP/IP implementation, there is very little that companies can do to prevent their network from being DDoSed. Some companies can be proactive and make sure all their systems are patched and are only running services they need. Also implementing, Egress/Ingress filtering and enable logging on all routers will disable some DDoS attacks.
“Egress filtering is the process of examining all packet headers leaving a subnet for address validity. If the packet's source IP address originates inside the subnet that the router serves, then the packet is forwarded. If the packet has an illegal source address, then the packet is simply dropped. There is very little overhead involved, therefore there is no degradation to network performance.”
- Cisco Website
Below you will find a simple SYN attack detection script that could be set to run every 5 minutes via a cronjob. In case of an attack you would receive and email with IP information; remember the IP information is usually spoofed.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#Simple Script to monitor syn attacks.
$syn_alert=15;
$hostname=`hostname`;
chomp($hostname);
$num_of_syn=`netstat -an | grep -c SYN`;
if($num_of_syn > $syn_alert)
{
`netstat -an | grep SYN | mail -s "SYN ATTACK DETECTED ON $hostname" admin@yourcompany.com`;
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Smurfing: The culprit sends a large amount of ICMP echo traffic at IP Broadcast addresses, all of it having a spoofed source address of a victim. This multiplies the traffic by the number of hosts.
Fraggle: This is the cousin of the smurf attack. This attack uses UDP echo packets in the same was as the ICMP echo traffic.
Ping Flood: The culprit attempts to disrupt service by sending ping request directly to the victim.
Syn Flood: Exploiting the flaw in the TCP three-way handshake, the culprit will create connection requests aimed at the victim. These requests are made with packets of unreachable source addresses. The server/device is not able to complete the connection and as a result the server ends up using the majority of its network resources trying to acknowledge each SYN.
Land: The culprit sends a forged packet with the same source and destination IP address. The victims system will be confused and crash or reboot.
Teardrop: The culprit sends two fragments that cannot be reassembled properly by manipulating the offset value of the packet and cause a reboot or halt of the victim’s system.
Bonk: This attack usually affects Windows OS machines. The culprit sends corrupted UDP Packets to DNS port 53. The system gets confused and crashes.
Boink: This is similar to the Bonk attack; accept that it targets multiple ports instead of only 53.
Worming: The worm sends a large amount of data to remote servers. It then verifies that a connection is active by attempting to contact a website outside the network. If successful, an attack is initiated. This would be in conjunction with a mass-mailing of some sort.
With the current TCP/IP implementation, there is very little that companies can do to prevent their network from being DDoSed. Some companies can be proactive and make sure all their systems are patched and are only running services they need. Also implementing, Egress/Ingress filtering and enable logging on all routers will disable some DDoS attacks.
“Egress filtering is the process of examining all packet headers leaving a subnet for address validity. If the packet's source IP address originates inside the subnet that the router serves, then the packet is forwarded. If the packet has an illegal source address, then the packet is simply dropped. There is very little overhead involved, therefore there is no degradation to network performance.”
- Cisco WebsiteBelow you will find a simple SYN attack detection script that could be set to run every 5 minutes via a cronjob. In case of an attack you would receive and email with IP information; remember the IP information is usually spoofed.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#Simple Script to monitor syn attacks.
$syn_alert=15;
$hostname=`hostname`;
chomp($hostname);
$num_of_syn=`netstat -an | grep -c SYN`;
if($num_of_syn > $syn_alert)
{
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Teardrop: The culprit sends two fragments that cannot be reassembled properly by manipulating the offset value of the packet and cause a reboot or halt of the victim’s system.
Bonk: This attack usually affects Windows OS machines. The culprit sends corrupted UDP Packets to DNS port 53. The system gets confused and crashes.
Boink: This is similar to the Bonk attack; accept that it targets multiple ports instead of only 53.
Worming: The worm sends a large amount of data to remote servers. It then verifies that a connection is active by attempting to contact a website outside the network. If successful, an attack is initiated. This would be in conjunction with a mass-mailing of some sort.
With the current TCP/IP implementation, there is very little that companies can do to prevent their network from being DDoSed. Some companies can be proactive and make sure all their systems are patched and are only running services they need. Also implementing, Egress/Ingress filtering and enable logging on all routers will disable some DDoS attacks.
“Egress filtering is the process of examining all packet headers leaving a subnet for address validity. If the packet's source IP address originates inside the subnet that the router serves, then the packet is forwarded. If the packet has an illegal source address, then the packet is simply dropped. There is very little overhead involved, therefore there is no degradation to network performance.”
- Cisco WebsiteBelow you will find a simple SYN attack detection script that could be set to run every 5 minutes via a cronjob. In case of an attack you would receive and email with IP information; remember the IP information is usually spoofed.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#Simple Script to monitor syn attacks.
$syn_alert=15;
$hostname=`hostname`;
chomp($hostname);
$num_of_syn=`netstat -an | grep -c SYN`;
if($num_of_syn > $syn_alert)
{
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“Egress filtering is the process of examining all packet headers leaving a subnet for address validity. If the packet's source IP address originates inside the subnet that the router serves, then the packet is forwarded. If the packet has an illegal source address, then the packet is simply dropped. There is very little overhead involved, therefore there is no degradation to network performance.”
- Cisco WebsiteBelow you will find a simple SYN attack detection script that could be set to run every 5 minutes via a cronjob. In case of an attack you would receive and email with IP information; remember the IP information is usually spoofed.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#Simple Script to monitor syn attacks.
$syn_alert=15;
$hostname=`hostname`;
chomp($hostname);
$num_of_syn=`netstat -an | grep -c SYN`;
if($num_of_syn > $syn_alert)
{
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- Cisco WebsiteBelow you will find a simple SYN attack detection script that could be set to run every 5 minutes via a cronjob. In case of an attack you would receive and email with IP information; remember the IP information is usually spoofed.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#Simple Script to monitor syn attacks.
$syn_alert=15;
$hostname=`hostname`;
chomp($hostname);
$num_of_syn=`netstat -an | grep -c SYN`;
if($num_of_syn > $syn_alert)
{
`netstat -an | grep SYN | mail -s "SYN ATTACK DETECTED ON $hostname" admin@yourcompany.com`;
}
else {
}
exit;
Conclusion: DDoS attacks are very difficult to trace and stop. New hardware appliances are being manufactured specifically for these types of attacks. Many dedicated server providers simply unplug the server that is being attacked until the attack has stopped. This is not a solution this is a careless and temporary fix. The culprit will still exist and has not been held accountable for their actions. Once an attack is detected hosts should immediately engage their upstream providers.
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