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Amplification DoS Attacks

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Reflection DoS attacks

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An amplification attack is a volumetric DoS attack with amplification and reflection characteristics. Reflection is achieved by source IP address spoofing, while amplification is accomplished by mostly exploiting UPD-based protocols that provide a much larger than the request response.

Theory and Application

The aim of an amplification DoS attack is to saturate the bandwidth of the victim with numerous and large in size packets. It targets mainly the network layer of TCP/IP protocol stack (Layer 3 of OSI model), but it can be used as an attack vector for all the above layers too depending on whether the victim hosts the same service as the protocol exploited for amplification. Overall, such an attack combines the characteristics of reflection and amplification (Ryba et al., 2015), namely, it induces the aggressive reply traffic stemming from tiny but legitimate requests initiated by the machines controlled by the aggressors to be redirected...

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  • Anagnostopoulos M, Kambourakis G, Kopanos P, Louloudakis G, Gritzalis S (2013) DNS amplification attack revisited. Comput Secur 39(Part B):475–485

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  • Anagnostopoulos M, Kambourakis G, Gritzalis S, Yau DKY (2018) Never say never: authoritative TLD nameserver-powered DNS amplification. In: NOMS 2018 – 2018 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, pp 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1109/NOMS.2018.8406224

  • Ferguson P, Senie D (2000) RFC 2827: Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source Address Spoofing. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2827.txt

  • Rossow C (2014) Amplification hell: revisiting network protocols for DDoS abuse. In: Proceedings of the 2014 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS). https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2014/

  • Ryba FJ, Orlinski M, Waehlisch M, Rossow C, Schmidt TC (2015) Amplification and DRDoS Attack Defense–A Survey and New Perspectives. arXiv preprint arXiv:150507892. http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.07892

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  1. Department of Information Security and Communication Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gjøvik, Norway

    Marios Anagnostopoulos

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  1. Center for Secure Information Systems, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, VA, USA

    Sushil Jajodia

  2. University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    Pierangela Samarati

  3. Google Inc, New York, NY, USA

    Moti Yung

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  1. Computer Science Department, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA

    Michalis Polychronakis

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Anagnostopoulos, M. (2021). Amplification DoS Attacks. In: Jajodia, S., Samarati, P., Yung, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cryptography, Security and Privacy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27739-9_1486-1

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