Archive for the ‘Security’ category

  1. DDoS Tracefile for SharkFest Europe 2021

    SharkFest Europe has opened it’s doors for the pre-conference classes. Presentations will start on June, 17th. I am honored to give a presentation on DDoS attacks. The trace files for the presentation are available for download at http://www.packet-foo.com/blog/SF21EU/DDoS_Tracefiles.zip The Zip file contains five traces: FreakOut_Flooding.pcapng Shows the UDP Flood, TCP Flood, SYN Flood and Slowloris attacks […]
  2. Introducing DNS Hammer, Part 2: Auditing a Name Server’s Rate Limiting Configuration

    Introducing DNS Hammer, Part 2: Introducing a new tool Part one of the series discusses DNS reflection attacks and DNS rate limiting. This post shows how to use DNS Hammer to audit a DNS server’s rate limit configuration. A dedicated web site https://www.dnshammer.com offers the tool for download and instructions how to use it.
  3. Introducing DNS Hammer, Part 1: DDoS Analysis – From DNS Reflection to Rate Limiting

    This article discusses DNS reflection, a technique used in DDoS attacks. DNS rate limiting can be used as mitigation against DNS reflection attacks. This paves the way to our new tool DNS Hammer. The program can help auditing a DNS server’s rate limiting configuration.
  4. Attacking Wireshark

    Every once in a while there is some news about Wireshark being vulnerable to being attacked/exploited/pwned, meaning that there is a way to craft frames/packets in a pcap/pcapng file to make Wireshark crash and (if done right) execute malicious code. So let’s take a look at what that means and what can be done about […]
  5. PCAP Split and Merge

    Sometimes it also happens during network troubleshooting engagements, but it is also common for analysis jobs regarding network forensics: dealing with huge number of packets, sometimes millions or more. Two typical situations may have you scratch your head: either you have one huge file containing all packets at once, or you have a ton of […]
  6. Network Forensics Playbook – Banner Inspection and Client Origin

    I recently did a hands-on-no-slides presentation at a very small security conference end of last year where I demoed some of the typical things I do when performing a network forensics analysis, using tshark, Wireshark and TraceWrangler. I’ll use these blog posts as a transcript of what I did, so that it’s easy to read […]
  7. Verifying IoCs with Snort and TraceWrangler

    After detecting a network breach it is a good idea to scan the network for further Indicators of Compromise (IoC) to check for further malicious activity. The IoCs are usually derived from forensic investigations into network packets and compromised hosts, and can be quite unique when it comes to more sophisticated attacks (let’s avoid mentioning […]
  8. A creative way of refusing connections

    A few days ago, Olli, one of our team members, sent me a funny trace that he’d taken while configuring the security settings on a Netoptics Bypass kit. This device has an SNMP and HTTP management service, and when he disabled the HTTP service he verified if the setting was accepted (like you should). Usually, […]
  9. Installing Tomahawk IPS test tool on Debian 7

    For a current IPS/IDS project I was looking for a test system to benchmark various IDS/IPS engines. The idea was to record network captures carrying malware samples in HTTP, SMTP or other protocols, and replaying them against the various detection engines. Problem with that is that tools like tcpreplay, bittwist or Ostinato all replay the […]
  10. It’s been a while…

    …before I found some time to post something on this blog. Mostly because of the summer break, but also because I was attending DefCon 2013 in Las Vegas, after a break of 3 years. I used to be at DefCon every year while it was held at the Riviera, working for the hotel as a […]