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Network Security Tools
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Network Security Tools

by Nitesh Dhanjani, Justin Clarke
April 2005
Intermediate to advanced
344 pages
11h 59m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Setting Up and Modifying p0f

When setting up p0f , you should use options that set up the Unix socket and specific SYN/ACK mode. The A option places the program in SYN/ACK mode, the O option indicates that the Unix socket interface will be used, and ~/socket is given as the name of the socket. This mode will fingerprint systems we connect to, as opposed to the default, which fingerprints systems that connect to us. After launching p0f, do a basic HTTP request so that p0f has some packets to fingerprint:

$p0f -qlAQ ~/socket
192.168.0.100:80 - Linux recent 2.4 (1) (up: 210 hrs) -> 192.168.0.109:9818 (distance 1, link: pppoe (DSL))

Leave that process running in a shell and then, in a separate shell, use the p0fq example tool to query the socket for the specific connection:

$./p0fq ../sock 192.168.0.100 80 192.168.0.109 9818
Genre    : Linux
Details  : recent 2.4 (1)
Distance : 1 hops
Link     : pppoe (DSL)
Uptime   : 210 hrs

This appears to be working, but specifying source and destination ports is too cumbersome. Let’s write a small patch to p0f to make it easier on the user. The following patch is against p0f Version 2.0.4. You can apply it with the patch -p0 < p0f-2.0.4-msf.patch command:

--- p0f-query.org.c Fri Jan 3 18:19:58 2004 +++ p0f-query.c Fri Jan 3 19:09:46 2004 @@ -122,6 +122,14 @@ send(sock,n,sizeof(struct p0f_response),MSG_NOSIGNAL); return; + }else if((cur->sad == q->src_ad) && (cur->dad == q->dst_ad) && + (q->src_port == NULL) && (q->dst_port == NULL)){ + struct p0f_response* n ...
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