Re: Application-based fingerprinting ?

[Bill Pennington <billp () boarder org>]

Jeremiah Grossman did a talk at BlackHat Singapore on Web Server  
fingerprinting. You can find it here -  
http://www.whitehatsec.com/presentations.html

I also recall a tool that did the same for BIND servers but I can't  
remember its name right now.


On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 11:22 PM, Anders Thulin wrote:

> Hi!
>
>   Fingerprinting a TCP stack seems a fairly well understood technique  
> by
> now, and there are several tools, more or less developed, for
> the task: nmap, ring, ICMP-based techniques, etc.
>
>   A recent glance over the output from a dozen different finger
> servers suggests that fingerprinting might be done fairly well on
> application level, too, although possibly not always as exactly as
> for TCP/IP-based techniques: applications are easier to move around
> than TCP stacks are.
>
>   Have there been any attempts to explore this area further?
> I've googled around, but not found anything obvious, except
> for observations of some fingerprints, such as responses to
> DNS SERVER_STATUS_REQUEST (a few respond with something else
> than 'not implemented'), and so on.
>
> --  
> Anders Thulin   anders.thulin () kiconsulting se   040-661 50 63	
> Ki Consulting AB, Box 85, SE-201 20 Malmö, Sweden
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