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Name of Tool Flooding Capabilities Short Description
Trinoo UDP Only initiates UDP attacks to random ports. Communication between master and slave is via unencrypted TCP and UDP. No IP spoofing. Uses UDP ports 27444 and 31335.
TFN UDP, ICMP Echo, TCP SYN, Smurf Uses IP spoofing. Uses ICMP Echo reply packets to communicate between zombie and master.
Stacheldracht v4 UDP, ICMP, TCP SYN, Smurf Uses encryption for communications (but not for ICMP heartbeat packets that zombie sends to master) and has an auto-update feature (via rcp). Has ability to test (via ICMP Echo) if it can use spoofed IP addresses.
Stacheldracht v2.666 UDP, ICMP, TCP SYN, Smurf, TCP ACK, TCP NUL Uses encryption for communications (but not for ICMP heartbeat packets that zombie sends to master) and has an auto-update feature (via rcp). Has ability to test (via ICMP Echo) if it can use spoofed IP addresses.
TFN 2K (Tribal Flood Network) UDP, ICMP Echo, TCP SYN, Smurf Same as TFN - but the slave is silent so difficult to spot. No return info from slave. Zombie to master communication is encrypted.
FAPI UDP, TCP SYN, TCP ACK, ICMP Can spoof IP addresses
Carko (Stacheldraht v1.666 + antigl + yps) UDP, ICMP, TCP SYN, Smurf, TCP ACK, TCP NUL Uses the backdoor hole of snmpXdmid and uses UDP port 530.
Freak88 ICMP NT specific zombie. No spoofing capabilities. Sends ICMP 1500 octet packets marked as fragments.
Shaft UDP, ICMP, TCP SYN Uses UDP ports 18753 and 20433. Has optional IP spoofing capabilities (needs root). Can set ICMP/UDP packet size.
Mstream TCP ACK Usually uses TCP port 12754 but can use any port. Master connects via telnet to zombie. Communication between zombie and controller is not encrypted. The target gets hit by ACK packets and sends TCP RST to non-existent Ip addresses. Routers will return ICMP unreachable causing more bandwidth starvation.
Blitznet TCP SYN Can spoof IPs and do IP flooding
Ramen Multicast Ramen is a worm that propagates by using a newly compromised system to scan Class B (/16) wide address spaces, searching for port 21 (FTP) and looking for new vulnerable hosts. SYN scanning performed by Ramen can disrupt network traffic when scanning the multicast network range.
Targa ANY Works by sending malformed IP packets known to slow down or hangup many TCP/IP network stacks.
Spank Multicast Will only work on a multicast enabled network. Similar to Mstream.
Stick Any Stick uses the straightforward technique of firing numerous attacks at random, from random source IP addresses to purposely trigger IDS events. Stick is a DoS tool against IDS systems.
Trank    
Omega TCP ACK, UDP, ICMP, IGMP Can spoof IPs and has a chat option between attackers
NAPHTA TCP Naptha attacks exploit weaknesses in the way some TCP stacks and applications handle large numbers of connections in states other than "SYN RECVD," including "ESTABLISHED" and "FIN WAIT-1."
Trinity (also called MyServer and Plague) UDP, TCP Fragment, TCP SYN, TCP RST, TCP RandomFlag,TCP ACK, Establish, NULL Listens to TCP port 33270. When idle it connects to Undernet IRC server on port 6667.
IRC bots ICMP, UDP Zombie systems controlled via a central IRC channel. Sub7 trojan used to maintain control over the zombie.
HTTPSmurf TCP HTTP Using public IIS servers as unsuspecting zombies, it sends a string of data to multiple webservers and they reflect the data to the target.
Code Red TCP HTTP Using a known IIS bug to infect Web servers, this trojan dDoS will only attack whitehouse.org but it will utilize 225,000 infected IIS systems. It exploits a vulnerability in the Indexing Service on systems running Microsoft IIS.
Power worm TCP HTTP Utilizing an IIS hole in regards to Unicode support, this worm uses IRC as a back channel to control an army of zombies.
Cisco ICMP Use a Cisco router as a zombie for an ICMP based ping attack.
Nimda TCP HTTP Worm utilzing yet another MS IIS hole.
SQL — Voyager Alpha TCP HTTP SQL with no password (default). The hacker takes over the system and uses it as part of IRC botnet to DDOS victims.

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