IDS: RE: Worm attack generation tools

From: Robert D. Holtz <robert.d.holtz_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 19:50:15 -0500

Use the worms themselves if you're testing IDS/IPS systems.

Just isolate them and setup a test system that you infect with the worms.
Use this system to pound away at the IDS.

If you need more systems you can always throw VMWare onto your test system
and create them virtually.

Nothing better to test with than the real thing!

-----Original Message-----
From: Joey Peloquin [mailto:joeyp_at_cotse.net]
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 7:50 AM
To: miaomitiff119
Cc: focus-ids_at_securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Worm attack generation tools

miaomitiff119 wrote:
> Hi,:)
> Does anyone know any tools which can be used to simulate attack traffic
> (especially traffic pattern of worm attacks)? It is for the purpose of
> testing IDSs. I've looked at PACKIT and Netcat, but they can't generate
> "simultaneous" connections which is required for generating worm spreading
> behaviour...(or are there any ways to use PACKIT or Netcat to generate
> simultaneous connections?)
>
> Many thanks!:)

Assuming you're wanting to test detections versus connections per second,
you might try Tomahawk. We used it for testing NIPS, but I don't see why
you couldn't use it for IDS as well.

http://tomahawk.sourceforge.net/

It's been discussed on this list before, ad nauseam, but keep in mind,
ICSALabs rewrote most of the code for their certification program (v1.1), so
it shouldn't be considered a TippingPoint-leaning tool, as it has in the
past.

-jp

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