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A new zombie port scanning attack
From: ithilgore <ithilgore.ryu.l () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:21:19 +0300
Hello fd-list folks. I recently demonstrated at Athcon, a new security conference taking place in Athens - Greece, a new stealthy port scanning attack that is made possible by abusing XMPP. The technique uses a "zombie" host (that can be anyone in your [most probably fake] friend/contact list) and some timing calculations in order to conduct a portscan through that proxy to any target. The IP address is never revealed to the scanned victim, the same way the famous idle/zombie scan, discovered by antirez, works. The idea, a proof of concept pidgin patch and a detailed analysis can be read in the paper. You can find the whitepaper here: http://sock-raw.org/papers/abusing_network_protocols and the presentation slides: http://sock-raw.org/papers/anp_presentation.pdf It is interesting to see how protocols like seemingly "innocent" protocols like XMPP can still be abused to do things like the above attack. Regards, ithilgore -- http://sock-raw.org http://twitter.com/ithilgore _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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