Re: Analysis of "stacheldraht"

On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Dave Dittrich wrote:

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> The "stacheldraht" distributed denial of service attack tool
>
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For those who are using this analysis for IDS signatures, etc.,
there is a typo in the analysis.

> In addition to finding an active handler, the agent performs a test
> to see if the network on which the agent is running allows packets to
> exit with forged source addresses. It does this by sending out an
> ICMP_ECHOREPLY packet with a forged IP address of "3.3.3.3", an ID of
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 666, and the IP address of the agent system (obtained by getting the
> hostname, then resolving this to an IP address) in the data field of
> the ICMP packet. (Note that it also sets the Type of Service field to
> 7 on this particular packet, while others have a ToS value of 0.)
> ...
> These packets (as seen by tcpdump and tcpshow) are shown here:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # tcpdump icmp
> . . .
> 14:15:35.151061 3.3.3.3 > 192.168.0.1: icmp: echo request [tos 0x7]
> 14:15:35.177216 192.168.0.1 > 10.0.0.1: icmp: echo reply
> . . .
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The tcpdump trace is correct. The 3.3.3.3 spoof test packet is an
ICMP_ECHO packet, not an ICMP_ECHOREPLY.

Thanks to bkubesh_at_cisco.com for pointing this out.

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