This document discusses various network attack tools and techniques, including sniffers, spoofing, and session hijacking. Sniffers like tcpdump and windump allow attackers to see all network traffic, including usernames and passwords. Session hijacking involves stealing active user sessions through sniffing and spoofing. The document also describes defenses like HTTPS, SSH, and monitoring for spoofing attacks.
2. Data Attack
In computer and computer networks an
attack is any attempt to destroy, expose,
alter, disable, steal or gain unauthorized
access to or make unauthorized use of an
asset.
3. Tools used in Network Attacks
Sniffing
Spoofing
Session hijacking
Netcat
4. Sniffer
Allows attacker to see everything sent across the
network, including userIDs and passwords
Tcpdump http://www.tcpdump.org
Windump http://netgroup-serv.polito.it/windump
Snort http://www.snort.org
Ethereal http://www.ethereal.com
Sniffit
http://reptile.rug.ac.be/~coder/sniffit/sniffit.html
Dsniff http://www.monkey.org/~dugsong/dsniff
5. Island Hopping Attack
Attacker initially takes over a machine via
some exploit
Attacker installs a sniffer to capture userIDs
and passwords to take over other machines
9. Sniffit in Interactive Mode
Useful for monitoring session-oriented
applications such as telnet and ftp
Activated by starting sniffit with -i option
Sorts packets into sessions based on IP addresses
and port numbers
Identifies userIDs and passwords
Allows attacker to watch keystrokes of victim in
real time.
10. Switched Ethernet LANs
Forwards network packets based on the
destination MAC address in the Ethernet
header
12. Active Sniffers
Effective in sniffing switched LANs
Injects traffic into the LAN to redirect
victims traffic to attacker
13. Figure In a person-in-the-middle attack, the attacker can
grab or alter traffic between Alice and Bob
14. Sniffing Defenses
Use HTTPS for encrypted web traffic
Use SSH for encrypted login sessions
Avoid using Telnet
Use S/MIME or PGP for encrypted email
Pay attention to warning messages on your
browser and SSH client
15. Network-based Session Hijacking
Attack based on sniffing and spoofing
Occurs when attacker steals user session such as
telent, rlogin, or FTP.
Innocent user thinks that his session was lost, not stolen
Attacker sits on a network segment where traffic
between victim and server can be seen
Attacker injects spoofed packets contain source IP
address of victim with proper TCP sequence
numbers
If hijack is successful, server will obey all
commands sent by attacker.
17. Session Hijacking Defenses
Use SSH or VPN for securing sessions
Attackers will not have the keys to encrypt or
decrypt traffic
Pay attention to warning messages about any
change of public key on server since this may
be a person-in-the-middle attack
18. Netcat
Network version of cat utility
Allows user to move data across a network using
any TCP or UDP port
Runs on both Unix and Windows NT
Netcat executable nc operates in two modes
Client mode allows user to initiate connection to any
TCP or UDP on a remote machine and to take input
data from standard input (eg keyboard or output of
pipe)
Listen mode (-l option) opens any specified TCP or
UDP port on local system and waits for incoming
connection and data through port. Data collected is sent
to standard output (eg. Screen or input of pipe)