Full Disclosure: Re: Arbitrary DDoS PoC

[Lucas Fernando Amorim <lf.amorim () yahoo com br>]

I could argue that an attack targeted at a service, especially HTTP, is 
not measured by the band, but the requests, especially the heavier, 
could argue that a technique is the most inherent characteristic of 
multiple sources of traffic and still relying on trust. I could still 
say that is an implementation that relates only to say - Look, it 
exists!, I could still prolong explaining about overheads, and using 
about the same time many sites that make the requests, thus reducing the 
wake of a failure, even if you say easily diagnosable.
But I'd rather say that it is actually very pedantic of you label 
something as inefficient, especially when not done a single test, only 
the pedantic observation of someone whose interests it is reprehensible. 
I will not say you're one of those, but this is really an attitude 
typical of this kind, which is certainly not a hacker. Thanks to people 
like that, do not know if you like, there are many flaws yet to be explored.
If anyone wants more information, obviously I will ask to send an email 
or call me to give a presentation, I will not think about anything. My 
goal in was invited researchers to study DDoS on this model, because 
anytime someone can direct thousands to generate a network congestion.
On 13-02-2012 11:17, Gage Bystrom wrote:
> Uhh...looks pretty standard boss. You aren't going to DoS a halfway 
> decent server with that using a single box. Sending your request 
> through multiple proxies does not magically increase the resource 
> usage of the target, its still your output power vs their input pipe. 
> Sure it gives a slight boost in anonymity and obfuscation but does not 
> actually increase effectiveness. It would even decrease effectiveness 
> because you bear the burden of having to send to a proxy, giving them 
> ample time to recover from a given request.
> Even if you look at it as a tactic to bypass blacklisting, you still 
> aren't going to overwhelm the server. That means you need more pawns 
> to do your bidding. This creates a bit of a problem however as then 
> all your slaves are running through a limited selection of proxies, 
> reducing the amount of threats the server needs to blacklist. The 
> circumvention is quite obvious, which is to not utilize proxies for 
> the pawns....and rely on shear numbers and/or superior resource 
> exhaustion methods....
> On Feb 13, 2012 4:37 AM, "Lucas Fernando Amorim" 
> <lf.amorim () yahoo com br <mailto:lf.amorim () yahoo com br>> wrote:
>     With the recent wave of DDoS, a concern that was not taken is the
>     model
>     where the zombies were not compromised by a Trojan. In the standard
>     modeling of DDoS attack, the machines are purchased, usually in a VPS,
>     or are obtained through Trojans, thus forming a botnet. But the
>     arbitrary shape doesn't need acquire a collection of computers.
>     Programs, servers and protocols are used to arbitrarily make
>     requests on
>     the target. P2P programs are especially vulnerable, DNS, internet
>     proxies, and many sites that make requests of user like Facebook
>     or W3C,
>     also are.
>
>     Precisely I made a proof-of-concept script of 60 lines hitting most of
>     HTTP servers on the Internet, even if they have protections likely
>     mod_security, mod_evasive. This can be found on this link [1] at
>     GitHub.
>     The solution of the problem depends only on the reformulation of
>     protocols and limitations on the number of concurrent requests and
>     totals by proxies and programs for a given site, when exceeded
>     returning
>     a cached copy of the last request.
>
>     [1] https://github.com/lfamorim/barrelroll
>
>     Cheers,
>     Lucas Fernando Amorim
>     http://twitter.com/lfamorim
>
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