nmap

ddaas · 02-03-2005, 03:29 AM

Hi,
Can anyone tell me which are the classes of TCP Sequence Prediction that nmap uses? What do they mean? Which is the interval between difficulty can be?

ddaas

Capt_Caveman · 02-09-2005, 12:17 AM

From this article at the nmap site (originally from network-magazine)

Quote:

The final stage uses SYN packets to probe for initial sequence
numbers. Nmap sends a couple of resets first to the open port, then
sends six packets with just SYN set (the normal method for opening a
TCP connection), followed each time with a reset (a TCP header with
reset and ACK flags set, which aborts the connection). The sequence
numbers in packets sent increase incrementally by one each time; this
is abnormal behavior but is characteristic of sequence number
collectors, such as rbone and the unpublished tool used to take down
security specialist Tsutomo Shimomura's site on Christmas Day, 1994
(see "Source Address Spoofing," May 2000).

Nmap collects the initial sequence numbers received from the target
and looks for a pattern in the way they are incremented. Really old
Unix systems still use a constant increment, while newer and more
secure systems use a random increment. Newer Microsoft stacks use a
time-dependent increment, which might make them vulnerable if they ran
a Unix service such as rlogind (which is not the case).

Essential reading on the topic:
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html
http://www.bindview.com/Support/RAZO...001/tcpseq.cfm
http://www.iu.hio.no/~haugerud/ids/SAATSNA_OYL.pdf

I believe nmap uses an algorithm simiilar to that described in the second paper.

ddaas · 02-09-2005, 02:16 AM

thanks,
that is what I was looking for.

ddaas