GEN:SID | 1:241 |
Message | DDOS shaft synflood |
Summary | This event is generated when a DDoS Shaft handler agent launchs a SYN flood against a target.
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Impact | Attempted DDoS. If the listed source IP is in your network, it may be a Shaft agent. If the listed destination IP is in your network, your host may be a target of a DDoS SYN flood.
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Detailed Information | The Shaft DDoS uses a tiered structure of compromised hosts to coordinate and participate in a distributed denial of service attack. Agents are hosts that are directed to launch attacks. One type of attack that may be launched is a SYN flood of a target. The SYN packets have a telltale initial sequence number of 674711609.
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Affected Systems | Any Shaft compromised host.
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Attack Scenarios | A Shaft agent may attack a target using a SYN flood.
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Ease of Attack | Simple. Shaft code is freely available.
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Corrective Action | Perform proper forensic analysis on the suspected compromised host to discover the means of compromise.
Rebuild a confirmed compromised host.
Use a packet-filtering firewall to block inappropriate traffic to the network to prevent hosts from being compromised.
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Additional References | Arachnids: http://www.whitehats.com/info/IDS253
Miscellaneous: http://biocserver.cwru.edu/~jose/shaft_analysis/
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Rule References | cve: 2000-0138
arachnids: 253
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