If the timeouts are completely unknown, Slowloris comes with a mode to help you get started in your testing: Think of Slowloris as the HTTP equivalent of a SYN flood. There is an added function to help you get started with finding the right sized timeouts as well.Īs a side note, Slowloris does not consume a lot of resources so modern operating systems don't have a need to start shutting down sockets when they come under attack, which actually in turn makes Slowloris better than a typical flooder in certain circumstances. Some servers may have a smaller tolerance for timeouts than others, but Slowloris can compensate for that by customizing the timeouts.
SLOWLORIS GITHUB WINDOWS
Slowloris is designed so that a single machine (probably a Linux/UNIX machine since Windows appears to limit how many sockets you can have open at any given time) can easily tie up a typical web server or proxy server by locking up all of it's threads as they patiently wait for more data. IIS6.0, IIS7.0, lighttpd, nginx, Cherokee, Squid, others.? It also keeps the load nice and low on the target server, so other vital processes don't die unexpectedly, or cause alarm to anyone who is logged into the server for other reasons.Īpache 1.x, Apache 2.x, dhttpd, GoAhead WebServer, others.? It has the added benefit of allowing the server to come back at any time (once the program is killed), and not spamming the logs excessively. Slowloris both helps identify the timeout windows of a HTTP server or Proxy server, can bypass httpready protection and ultimately performs a fairly low bandwidth denial of service.
SLOWLORIS GITHUB PATCH
RSnake with threading from John Kinsella and patch to reduce CPU drain from Guillermo Grandes Select( undef, undef, undef, 0.1) # reduce CPU drain While ( $i create( \&doconnections, $connectionsperthread, 1 ) \nThis thread now sleeping for $timeout seconds. "Current stats: \tSlowloris has now sent $packetcount packets successfully.
$packetcount = $packetcount + 3 #SYN, SYN+ACK, ACK "That's odd - I connected but couldn't send the data to $host: $port. Print "Connection successful, now comes the waiting game. Print "This test could take up to $totaltime minutes. Print "Slowloris will be slower than normal as a result. Print "No multithreading capabilites found! \n " Print "Defaulting to a 100 second re-try timeout. Print "Defaulting to a 5 second tcp connection timeout. Print " \n\tType 'perldoc $0' for help with options. Print "Usage: \n\n\tperl $0 -dns [-options \n " $SIG = 'IGNORE ' #Ignore broken pipe errors