Stacheldraht
Stacheldraht (German for "barbed wire") is malware written by Mixter for Linux and Solaris systems which acts as a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) agent. This tool detects and automatically enables source address forgery.
 Stacheldraht attack diagram | |
| Original author(s) | Mixter |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 4
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| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Linux, Solaris |
| Size | 36 kb |
| Type | Botnet |
| Website | http://packetstormsecurity.org/distributed/stachel.tgz |
Stacheldraht uses a number of different denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, including User Datagram Protocol (UDP) flood, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) flood, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) SYN flood and Smurf attack.
It combines features of Trinoo with Tribe Flood Network (TFN), and adds encryption.
See also
- Low Orbit Ion Cannon (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
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