June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
258 pages
6h 9m
English
Smurf attacks occur when a spoofed source address sends a large amount of ICMP packets to the broadcast address. Hosts on that network will then respond back, as they are support to respond back to broadcast addresses. This causes a denial-of-service situation on the local LAN. Typically, you would want your network devices to not send a directed broadcast through the interface, so the packet is dropped and nothing bad occurs. But, if that infrastructure-based configuration is not set, the smurf attack will be successful.
Utilizing hping3, here is the syntax for setting up my smurf attack on the network:
hping3-1 --flood -a 192.168.33.123192.168.1.255
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