Re: Application-based fingerprinting ?

[Eugene Tsyrklevich <eugene () securityarchitects com>]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 08:22:02AM +0100, Anders Thulin wrote:
> Hi!
>
>    Fingerprinting a TCP stack seems a fairly well understood technique by
> now, and there are several tools, more or less developed, for
> the task: nmap, ring, ICMP-based techniques, etc.
>
>    A recent glance over the output from a dozen different finger
> servers suggests that fingerprinting might be done fairly well on
> application level, too, although possibly not always as exactly as
> for TCP/IP-based techniques: applications are easier to move around
> than TCP stacks are.
>
>    Have there been any attempts to explore this area further?
> I've googled around, but not found anything obvious, except
> for observations of some fingerprints, such as responses to
> DNS SERVER_STATUS_REQUEST (a few respond with something else
> than 'not implemented'), and so on.


http://packetstormsecurity.org/papers/os-detection/osdetect-perl.txt
http://packetstormsecurity.org/papers/os-detection/osdetect-lpd.txt
http://packetstormsecurity.org/UNIX/misc/lpdfp.tar.gz

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