Re: Triggering IDS

From: Andres Riancho (andres.riancho@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Mar 16 2006 - 12:17:08 EST


Hi Adam,

    When I need to do something like that I use one of the following :

        idswakeup
        nmap -O -T Aggresive ip-behind-ids

    If the other end is a webserver and you need a really quick test :

        wget http://ip-behind-ids/../../../../././etc/passwd

    If nothing triggers your IDS you should try with:

        Nessus
        nikto

    If you need to do many tests, you could use tcpdump to capture an
attack and then tcpreplay to resend those packets. There is also a
project called tomahawk that you should check.

Cheers,

Andres Riancho
http://www.securearg.net/

AdamT wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Y'know how there's the EICAR anti virus test file, which lets you see
> if your anti-virus is working, well, I was wondering if there was
> something similar to let you see what happens when your IDS triggers?
>
> Should I just send a lot of NOPs in a TCP session, or make obvious
> port scans, or is there some kind of 'industry standard' way to
> deliberately trigger IDS alarms?
>
> --
> AdamT
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