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From: thetic_1900 at hotmail.com (thetic)
Subject: Re: [tool] the new p0f 2.0.1 is now out

Question concerning the the POF, how can we setup a IDS to detect a POF
scan.

umer


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michal Zalewski" <lcamtuf@...ttot.org>
To: <honeypots@...urityfocus.com>; <pen-test@...urityfocus.com>;
<focus-ids@...urityfocus.com>; <sectools@...urityfocus.com>
Cc: <incidents@...urityfocus.com>; <bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>;
<full-disclosure@...sys.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 12:21 PM
Subject: [tool] the new p0f 2.0.1 is now out


>
> I am proud to announce the new stable version of p0f, 2.0.1, a complete
> rewrite of the original open-source tool released back in 2000, and a
> major step for the utility.
>
> I apologize for posting to all the forums, and leave it to the moderators
> to accept or drop this post - but I believe the tool is probably of some
> interest to the IDS / honeypot / pen-test / general ITSec audiences, and
> more appropriate forums are largely defunct.
>
> ------------
> What is p0f?
> ------------
>
>    P0f v2 is a versatile passive OS fingerprinting tool. P0f can identify
>    the system on machines that connect to your box, machines you connect
>    to, and even machines that merely go thru or near your box. All this
>    even if the device is behind a fascist packet firewall.
>
>    P0f will also detect what the remote system is hooked up to (be it
>    Ethernet, DSL, OC3, or avian carriers), how far it is located, what's
>    its uptime, and will often detect NAT, firewall presence, and even
>    the name of the other guy's ISP - all this without sending a single
>    packet.
>
> What do you need it for?
> ------------------------
>
>    P0f is quite useful for gathering all kinds of profiling information
>    about your users, customers or attackers (IDS, honeypot, firewall),
>    tech espionage (laugh...), active or passive policy enforcement
>    (restricting access for certain systems or otherwise handling them
>    differently), content optimization, pen-testing, thru-firewall
>    fingerprinting... plus all the tasks active fingerprinting is suitable
>    for. And, of course, it has a high coolness factor, even if you are
>    not a sysadmin.
>
> -----------
> What's new?
> -----------
>
>   Almost everything. Please upgrade and encourage your vendor to
>   update his packages. P0f v2 is far superior to the old code
>   and its clones (such as the Ettercap passive OS fingerprinting
>   functionality, based on the p0f v1 concepts). It is faster,
>   more secure, reliable, precise, accurate, feature-loaded
>   (including easy service integration). It also introduces many
>   new metrics, some of them "invented" for p0f v2.
>
>   NEW CORE CHECKS:
>
>     - Option layout and count check,
>     - EOL presence and trailing data [*],
>     - Unrecognized options handling (TTCP, etc),
>     - WSS to MSS/MTU correlation checks [*],
>     - Zero timestamp check,
>     - Non-zero ACK in initial SYN [*],
>     - Non-zero "unused" TCP fields [*],
>     - Non-zero urgent pointer in SYN [*],
>     - Non-zero second timestamp [*],
>     - Zero IP ID in initial packet,
>     - Unusual auxilinary flags,
>     - Data payload in control packets [*],
>     - Non-empty IP options.
>
>     [*] Metrics "invented" for p0f, as far as I know. Other metrics
>     were discussed before, although usually not implemented anywhere.
>
>   IMPROVEMENTS:
>
>     - Major performance improvements - no more runtime signature parsing,
>       added BPF pre-filtering, signature hash lookups - to make p0f
suitable
>       for high-throughput devices,
>
>     - Modulo and wildcard operators for certain TCP/IP parameters to make
>       it easier to come up with generic last chance signatures for
>       systems that tweak settings notoriously (think Windows),
>
>     - Auto-detection of DF-zeroing firewalls,
>
>     - Auto-detection of MSS-tweaking NAT and router devices,
>
>     - Media type detection based on MSS, with a database of common
>       link types,
>
>     - Origin network detection based on unusual ToS / precedence bits,
>
>     - Ability to detect and skip ECN option when examining flags,
>
>     - Better fingerprint file structure and contents - all fingerprints
>       are rigorously reviewed before being added.
>
>     - Generic last-chance signatures to cover general OS characteristics,
>
>     - Query mode to enable easy integration with third party software -
>       p0f caches recent fingerprints and answer queries for src-dst
>       combinations on a local stream socket in a easy to parse
>       form,
>
>     - Usability features: greppable output option, daemon mode, host
>       name resolution option, promiscuous mode switch, built-in signature
>       collision detector, ToS reporting, etc,
>
>     - "Officially unsupported" SYN+ACK fingerprinting mode for silent
>       identifications of systems you connect to the usual way (web
>       browser, MTA),
>
>     - Fixed WSCALE handling in general, and WSS passing on little-endian,
>       many other bug-fixes and improvements of the packet parser
>       (including some sanity checks).
>
> --------------------
> Download, demo, etc.
> --------------------
>
>   P0f home page is:
>   http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/p0f.shtml
>
>   Download:
>   http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/p0f.tgz
>
>   Contribute / see it in action:
>   http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/p0f-help/
>
>   P0f is believed to run fine on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
>   OpenBSD, MacOS X, Solaris and AIX.
>
>   Please consider contributing to the project if you liked it.
>
>

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