Chapter 31 ADP

• ICMP Filtered

• TCP Filtered Distributed

• UDP Filtered

Portsweep

Portscan

Distributed Portscan

•IP Filtered Distributed Portscan

Flood Detection

Flood attacks saturate a network with useless data, use up all available bandwidth, and therefore make communications in the network impossible.

ICMP Flood Attack

An ICMP flood is broadcasting many pings or UDP packets so that so much data is sent to the system, that it slows it down or locks it up.

Smurf

A smurf attacker (A) floods a router (B) with Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request packets (pings) with the destination IP address of each packet as the broadcast address of the network. The router will broadcast the ICMP echo request packet to all hosts on the network. If there are numerous hosts, this will create a large amount of ICMP echo request and response traffic.

If an attacker (A) spoofs the source IP address of the ICMP echo request packet, the resulting ICMP traffic will not only saturate the receiving network (B), but the network of the spoofed source IP address (C).

Figure 308 Smurf Attack

TCP SYN Flood Attack

Usually a client starts a session by sending a SYN (synchronize) packet to a server. The receiver returns an ACK (acknowledgment) packet and its own SYN, and then

 

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