Design of Advanced Slow Denial of Service Attack Generator

Abstract

This work investigates the optimization and usability of slow Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks in computer networks. This paper focuses on Slowloris, Slow POST, and Slow Read attack. The reader is introduced to the principles and detection issues of these attacks, together with a closer look at the design of an advanced slow DoS attack generator. This paper also presents experimental testing of a proposed generator. The test scenarios are close to real attack cases, including distributed attacks. The proposed generator is applicable for future research or improvement of detection systems and webserver security modules.