Comparação e análise de desempenho das ferramentas de ataque DDoS: Slowloris, GoldenEye, Xerxes e Torshammer

Abstract

With the constant advancement of Internet use in various sectors, such as commerce, education, government and personal use, information security has become a relevant and challenging issue. In this context, denial of service attacks (DoS) and distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) have stood out as one of the main threats currently faced. Given this, it is essential to evaluate and compare the strength of the DoS/DDoS attack launched by these tools to design efficient countermeasures against them. In this article, the performance of four DoS/DDoS attack tools is compared and analyzed using parameters such as time to successfully launch the attack, traffic rate, and packet size. The DoS/DDoS tools considered for evaluation are Slowloris, GoldenEye, Xerxes and Torshammer. Experimental results infer that Xerxes outperforms other tools in launching a DoS/DDoS attack.