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Section 1 - Detection Engine

Test 1.1 – Attack Recognition

Attacks

Default
ARR

Custom
ARR

Test 1.1.1 - Backdoors

     

Test 1.1.2 - WINS/DNS

     

Test 1.1.3 - DOS

     

Test 1.1.4 - False negatives (modified exploits)

     

Test 1.1.5 - Finger

     

Test 1.1.6 - FTP

     

Test 1.1.7 - HTTP

     

Test 1.1.8 - ICMP

     

Test 1.1.9 - Reconnaissance

     

Test 1.1.10 - RPC

     

Test 1.1.11 - SSH

     

Test 1.1.12 - Telnet

     

Test 1.1.13 - Database

     

Test 1.1.14 - Mail

     

Test 1.1.15 - Voice

     

Total

     

 

     

 

Test 1.2 – Resistance to False Positives

Default

Custom

Test 1.2.1 - Suspicious FTP traffic

   

Test 1.2.2 - HTTP “exploit” using incorrect method

   

Test 1.2.3 - Retrieval of Web page containing “suspicious” URLs

   

Test 1.2.4 - Simple SMTP QUIT command

   

Test 1.2.5 - Normal NetBIOS copy of “suspicious” files

   

Test 1.2.6 - Normal NetBIOS traffic

   

Test 1.2.7 - POP3 e-mail containing “suspicious” URLs

   

Test 1.2.8 - POP3 e-mail with “suspicious” DLL attachment

   

Test 1.2.9 - POP3 e-mail with “suspicious” Web page attachment

   

Test 1.2.10 - SMTP e-mail transfer containing “suspicious” URLs

   

Test 1.2.11 - SMTP e-mail transfer with “suspicious” DLL attachment

   

Test 1.2.12 - SMTP e-mail transfer with “suspicious” Web page attachment

   

Test 1.2.13 - SNMP V3 packet with invalid parameter

   

Test 1.2.14 - Fake DNS /bin/sh buffer overflow

   

Test 1.2.15 - Inter-firewall communication traffic

   

Test 1.2.16 - Fake SQL Slammer traffic

   

Test 1.2.17 - File copy of GIF file (contains bytes which look like NOP sled)

   

Total Passed

   

Section 2 - IPS Evasion

Test 2.1 – Evasion Baselines

Detected?

Test 2.1.1 - NSS Back Orifice ping

 

Test 2.1.2 - Back Orifice connection

 

Test 2.1.3 - FTP CWD root

 

Test 2.1.4 - ISAPI printer overflow

 

Test 2.1.5 - Showmount export lists

 

Test 2.1.6 - Test CGI probe (/cgi-bin/test-cgi)

 

Test 2.1.7 - PHF remote command execution

 

Total

 

 

Test 2.2 – Packet Fragmentation/Stream Segmentation

Detected?

Decoded?

Test 2.2.1 - IP fragmentation - ordered 8 byte fragments

 

   

Test 2.2.2 - IP fragmentation - ordered 24 byte fragments

 

   

Test 2.2.3 - IP fragmentation - out of order 8 byte fragments

 

   

Test 2.2.4 - IP fragmentation - ordered 8 byte fragments, duplicate last packet

 

   

 

Test 2.2.5 - IP fragmentation - out of order 8 byte fragments, duplicate last packet

 

   

 

Test 2.2.6 - IP fragmentation - ordered 8 byte fragments, reorder fragments in reverse

 

   

Test 2.2.7 - IP fragmentation - ordered 16 byte fragments, fragment overlap (favour new)

 

   

Test 2.2.8 - IP fragmentation - ordered 16 byte fragments, fragment overlap (favour old)

 

   

Test 2.2.9 - TCP segmentation - ordered 1 byte segments, interleaved duplicate segments with invalid TCP checksums

   

Test 2.2.10 - TCP segmentation - ordered 1 byte segments, interleaved duplicate segments with null TCP control flags

   

Test 2.2.11 - TCP segmentation - ordered 1 byte segments, interleaved duplicate segments with requests to resync sequence nos. mid-stream

   

Test 2.2.12 - TCP segmentation - ordered 1 byte segments, duplicate last packet

 

   

Test 2.2.13 - TCP segmentation - ordered 2 byte segments, segment overlap (favour new)

 

   

Test 2.2.14 - TCP segmentation - ordered 1 byte segments, interleaved duplicate segments with out-of-window sequence numbers

   

Test 2.2.15 - TCP segmentation - out of order 1 byte segments

 

   

Test 2.2.16 - TCP segmentation - out of order 1 byte segments, interleaved duplicate segments with faked retransmits

   

Test 2.2.17 - TCP segmentation - ordered 1 byte segments, segment overlap (favour new)

 

   

Test 2.2.18 - TCP segmentation - out of order 1 byte segments, PAWS elimination (interleaved dup segments with older TCP timestamp options)

   

Test 2.2.19 - IP fragmentation - out of order 8 byte fragments, interleaved duplicate packets scheduled for later delivery

   

Test 2.2.20 - TCP segmentation - ordered 16 byte segments, segment overlap (favour new (Unix))

   

Total

   

 


 

Test 2.3 – URL Obfuscation

Detected?

Decoded?

Test 2.3.1 - URL encoding

   

Test 2.3.2 - /./ directory insertion

   

Test 2.3.3 - Premature URL ending

   

Test 2.3.4 - Long URL

   

Test 2.3.5 - Fake parameter

   

Test 2.3.6 - TAB separation

   

Test 2.3.7 - Case sensitivity

   

Test 2.3.8 - Windows \ delimiter

   

Test 2.3.9 - Session splicing

   

Total

   

 

Test 2.4 – Miscellaneous Obfuscation Techniques

Detected?

Decoded?

Test 2.4.1 - Altering default ports

   

Test 2.4.2 - Inserting spaces in FTP command lines

   

Test 2.4.3 - Inserting non-text Telnet opcodes in FTP data stream

   

Test 2.4.4 - Polymorphic mutation (ADMmutate)

   

Test 2.4.5 - Altering protocol and RPC PROC numbers

   

Test 2.4.6 - RPC record fragging (MS-RPC and Sun)

   

Test 2.4.7 - HTTP exploits to port <> 80

   

Total

   

Section 3 - Stateful Operation

Test 3.1 – Stateless Attack Replay

Alert?

Pass/Fail

Test 3.1.1 - Stateless Web exploits

   

Test 3.1.2 - Stateless FTP exploits

   

 

Test 3.2 – Simultaneous Open Connections (default settings)

Number of open connections

             

Test 3.2.1 - Attack Detection

             

Test 3.2.2 - State Preservation

             

 

Test 3.3 – Simultaneous Open Connections (after tuning)

Number of open connections

             

Test 3.3.1 - Attack Detection

             

Test 3.3.2 - State Preservation

             

Section 4 - Detection/Blocking Performance Under Load

Test 4.1 – UDP traffic to random valid ports

 

150Mbps

 

300Mbps

 

450Mbps

 

600Mbps

 

Max

Test 4.1.1 - 256 byte packet test - max 270,000pps

         

Test 4.1.2 - 550 byte packet test - max 132,000pps