DRDOS attacks through BitTorrent

DRDOS (Distributed Reflective Denial of Service). Ο κ. Florian Adamsky από το University οf London δημοσίευσε μια ερευνητική εργασία στη οποία αναφέρεται λεπτομερώς στην οικογένεια των πρωτοκόλλων που χρησιμοποιούνται από clients και μπορούν να καταχραστούν για τη διεξ DRDOS attacks.

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Οι περισσότεροι από εμάς έχουν μια βασική ιδέα του τι είναι μια DDOS , but the DRDOS attack is a bit different.

While in a DDOS attack, a hacker controls a series of zombie computers that create excessive traffic to a target and the target is "blocked" and no longer accessible to third parties, in a DRDOS, the attacker generates traffic to legitimate network equipment. (called a mirror), which then relays the traffic to the victim.

The traffic sent to the mirror is spoofed and contains the victim's IP address as the source of the packet, and when the mirror (or reflector if you prefer) follows the general rules of Internet protocols and tries to create a , it does this with the victim's IP, instead of the attacker's.

Also, beyond the mission of a catwalk, the attackers have devised ways to use the mirror to boost traffic.

Protocols widely used in DRDOS attacks are TCP, DNS, and NTP. OR research study by Mr. Adamsky shows how too many protocols can be used by the BitTorrent family in DRDOS attacks, even with the ability to boost traffic.

According to Mr. Adamsky, the BitTorrent protocols that are affected are: UTP (Micro Transport Protocol), Distributed Hash Table (DHT), and Message Stream Encryption (MSE). These are the protocols used in BitTorrent, uTorrent and Vuze applications.

In addition, the BTSync synchronization protocol used with the BitTorrent Sync file sharing application is also vulnerable.

“Our experiments show that BitTorrent has an amplification factor (BAF = bandwidth amplification factor) 50 times higher and in the case of BTSync it is up to 120 times higher", said Mr. Florian Adamsky.

But the bad news doesn't stop there. In addition to boosting traffic, the DRDOS attacks carried out via BitTorrent are detectable by regular firewalls due to the "dynamic range of encryption and handshake encryption".

Mitigation services for this type of attack would probably require Deep Packet Inspection (DPI), a solution that eats a lot of resources for most server infrastructures.

Such as says TorrentFreak, BitTorrent has fixed some of these issues in a recent beta, while Vuze and uTorrent are still vulnerable.

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