Stacheldraht (
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malware
Malware (a portmanteau for ''malicious software'') is any software intentionally designed to cause disruption to a computer, server, client, or computer network, leak private information, gain unauthorized access to information or systems, depri ...
which performs a
distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. It was written by "Thomas Stacheldraht", a member of the Austrian hacker group
TESO. It was first released in 1999.
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Stacheldraht uses a number of different denial-of-service (DoS) attack methods, including Ping flood, UDP flood, ]TCP
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SYN flood
A SYN flood is a form of denial-of-service attack in which an attacker rapidly initiates a connection to a server without finalizing the connection. The server has to spend resources waiting for half-opened connections, which can consume enough ...
, and Smurf attack. Further, it can detect and automatically enable source address forgery. Adding encryption, it combines features of Trinoo
The trinoo or trin00 is a set of computer programs to conduct a DDoS attack. It is believed that trinoo networks have been set up on thousands of systems on the Internet that have been compromised by remote buffer overrun exploits.
The first sus ...
and of Tribe Flood Network
The Tribe Flood Network or TFN is a set of computer programs to conduct various DDoS attacks such as ICMP flood, SYN flood, UDP flood and Smurf attack.
First TFN initiated attacks are described in CERTbr>Incident Note 99-04
TFN2K was writte ...
. The software runs on both Linux and Solaris
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.[
Stacheldraht was later superseded by Blitzkrieg, which was maintained by "random" and a loose group of associates.
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See also
* Low Orbit Ion Cannon
Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) is an open-source network stress testing and denial-of-service attack application written in C#. LOIC was initially developed by Praetox Technologies, however it was later released into the public domain and is cur ...
(LOIC) – a stress test tool that has been used for DDoS attacks
* High Orbit Ion Cannon (HOIC) – the replacement for LOIC used in DDoS attacks
* Fork bomb
* Slowloris (computer security)
* ReDoS A regular expression denial of service (ReDoS)
is an algorithmic complexity attack that produces a denial-of-service by providing a regular expression and/or an input that takes a long time to evaluate. The attack exploits the fact that many reg ...
References
External links
Technical analysis of Stacheldraht
Denial-of-service attacks
Botnets
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