Re: Application-based fingerprinting ?

From: Bill Pennington (billp@boarder.org)
Date: Tue Feb 04 2003 - 13:18:47 EST


Jeremiah Grossman did a talk at BlackHat Singapore on Web Server
fingerprinting. You can find it here -
http://www.whitehatsec.com/presentations.html

I also recall a tool that did the same for BIND servers but I can't
remember its name right now.

On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 11:22 PM, Anders Thulin wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Fingerprinting a TCP stack seems a fairly well understood technique
> by
> now, and there are several tools, more or less developed, for
> the task: nmap, ring, ICMP-based techniques, etc.
>
> A recent glance over the output from a dozen different finger
> servers suggests that fingerprinting might be done fairly well on
> application level, too, although possibly not always as exactly as
> for TCP/IP-based techniques: applications are easier to move around
> than TCP stacks are.
>
> Have there been any attempts to explore this area further?
> I've googled around, but not found anything obvious, except
> for observations of some fingerprints, such as responses to
> DNS SERVER_STATUS_REQUEST (a few respond with something else
> than 'not implemented'), and so on.
>
> --
> Anders Thulin anders.thulin@kiconsulting.se 040-661 50 63
> Ki Consulting AB, Box 85, SE-201 20 Malmö, Sweden
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