DOS and DDOS Attacks in Kali Linux
DDOS is Distributed Denial-of-Service attack. DOS is the attack which performed from one computer to one targeted network, in DOS a single machine sends millions of useless traffic on a network but in the case of DDOS many attacker machine targets one network and every attacker machine is performing DOS. That means each and every attacker machine sends millions of traffics. DOS becomes useless against high capacity servers because larger servers easily manages millions of traffics. In such cases the attacker needs thousands or more machines from various networks to knee down the target, this is DDOS attack. To do this DDOS attacker need a organized group of hackers or botnets. Hacking group Anonymous is famous for their DDOS attacks.
Black hat hackers uses DDOS to slow down or crashes high profile web servers like banks or payment gateways, for revenges or blackmail and activism.
DOS attack can perform easily using various tools like
- Nemesy
- RUDY
- GolodenEye
- UDP flood
- PyLoris
- HULK
- ToR’s Hammer
- xerxess
- LOIC
- HOIC
- MetaSploit
There are also various types of DOS attack techniques:
- Distributed volume based DOS attack
- Degradation of service attacks
- Application-layer floods
- DDOS extortion
- HTTP POST DOS Attack
- Internet control message protocol (ICPM) flood
- R U Dead-Yet (RUDY)
- Nuke
- Peer-to Peer attacks
- Permanent denial-of-service attacks
- Reflected/spoofed attack
- shrew attack
- (S)SYN Attack
- Teardeop attacks
- Telephony denial-of-service (TDOS)
Now we practically do this on our localhost server using Slowloris. We clone Slowloris from it’s GitHub repository by using following command:
The screenshot of the command is following:
Then we type cd command to navigate in to Slowloris’s directory:
Then we need to run Slowloris Python script. Here we need the IP address of the targeted server or website in our case it is 127.0.0.1 that is our localhost. The command of DOS attack using Slowloris will be as following:
This attack is slow down our loaclhost server.
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| Look it is loading ….. |
Localhost servers are called world’s fastest server and it is loading….😮😮😮…..
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| Here we need to wait for server’s response |
We also can use our android smart phones to perform DOS attack by using AnDOSid and LOIC. Search for those applications and try them on own network for learning purpose.
This article is only for educational or informational purpose only. The author is not responsible for any illegal activity. KaliLinux.In does not promote any malicious activities.
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