Stacheldraht
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Stacheldraht is a piece of software written by Random for Linux
and Solaris systems which acts as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) agent. The tool detects and automatically enables source address forgery.
Stacheldraht uses a number of different DoS attacks, including: UDP
flood, ICMP
flood, TCP
SYN flood
and Smurf attack
.
It combines features of Trinoo
with TFN
, and adds encryption.
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
and Solaris systems which acts as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) agent. The tool detects and automatically enables source address forgery.
Stacheldraht uses a number of different DoS attacks, including: UDP
User Datagram Protocol
The User Datagram Protocol is one of the core members of the Internet Protocol Suite, the set of network protocols used for the Internet. With UDP, computer applications can send messages, in this case referred to as datagrams, to other hosts on an Internet Protocol network without requiring...
flood, ICMP
Internet Control Message Protocol
The Internet Control Message Protocol is one of the core protocols of the Internet Protocol Suite. It is chiefly used by the operating systems of networked computers to send error messages indicating, for example, that a requested service is not available or that a host or router could not be...
flood, TCP
Transmission Control Protocol
The Transmission Control Protocol is one of the core protocols of the Internet Protocol Suite. TCP is one of the two original components of the suite, complementing the Internet Protocol , and therefore the entire suite is commonly referred to as TCP/IP...
SYN flood
SYN flood
A SYN flood is a form of denial-of-service attack in which an attacker sends a succession of SYN requests to a target's system in an attempt to consume enough server resources to make the system unresponsive to legitimate traffic.-Technical details:...
and Smurf attack
Smurf attack
The Smurf attack is a way of generating significant computer network traffic on a victim network. This is a type of denial-of-service attack that floods a target system via spoofed broadcast ping messages....
.
It combines features of Trinoo
Trinoo
The trinoo or trin00 is a set of computer programs to conduct a DDoS attack. It is believed that trinoo networks has been set up on thousands of systems on the Internet that have been compromised by remote buffer overrun exploits....
with TFN
Tribe Flood Network
The Tribe Flood Network or TFN is a set of computer programs to conduct various DDoS attacks such as ICMP flood, SYN flood, UDP flood and Smurf attack.First TFN initiated attacks are described in CERT...
, and adds encryption.