From the course: Ethical Hacking: Denial of Service
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Using Python to test denial of service
From the course: Ethical Hacking: Denial of Service
Using Python to test denial of service
- [Instructor] Torshammer is a denial of service testing tool written in Python. It's a little old now and it doesn't scale to quite the level of contemporary distributed denial of service attacks. But it's useful to take a look at how a denial of service tool is written. Now that this tool may cause a virus alert when you extract the files. Microsoft Defender will report it as a Python Dakkatoni tool with potentially unwanted behavior. I've extracted the main Torshammer Python file so let's take a look at it. At line four we have a description of the tool. It's a slow denial of service attack which focuses on using up target resources. It's got the ability to run as a hidden attack through the anonymizing Tor network and has been tested against various Apache Servers to determine the scale of packet generation necessary to cause a denial of service. At line 35, we can see that we have a number of different user agents…
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