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Advanced tool for generating modern Slow DoS attacks
Hrůza, Tomáš ; Člupek, Vlastimil (referee) ; Sikora, Marek (advisor)
In today’s world, cyber threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Those threats include SDoS (Slow Denial of Service) and SDDoS (Slow Distributed Denial of Service) attacks, which employ advanced methods to disrupt normal service operations. These attacks are particularly difficult to detect and are effective because they simulate the behavior of legitimate users with slow internet connections. The topic of SDoS attacks is relatively new and not thoroughly documented. To respond to potentially newly devel- oped attacks, it is necessary to understand the principles of currently known attacks and have the practical capability to create them in order to develop effective countermeasures in the future. This thesis focuses on the development of an advanced tool for generating modern SDoS attacks. The main contribution of this work is the enhancement of the generator to create distributed attacks, the creation of an intuitive interface, and more options for monitoring the progress of individual attacks. The theoretical part introduces the topic of internet connection establishment and explains the properties of TCP and IP protocols in detail. It then clarifies the theory of secure communication over the internet using the HTTPS protocol and provides a comparison of currently used web servers. The final theoretical section addresses the topic of denial of service, discussing some types of currently known SDoS attacks, the tools that generate these attacks, and their shortcomings. Next chapter details the implementation of functionalities, which includes performance enhancements of the tool through the use of multiple processes. The developed tool features Slow Read, Slow Next, and Slow Drop attacks, as well as the ability to combine these attacks. This is followed by a description of how a local network of virtual machines was created for the purpose of testing the implemented tool. The final chapter presents the results and effectiveness of the tool in conducting SDDoS attacks against Apache and NGINX web servers in a local network.
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