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ISS Proventia A201 Test Results

Section 1 - Detection Engine

Test 1.1 – Attack Recognition

Attacks

Default ARR

Custom ARR

Test 1.1.1 - Backdoors

5

5

5

Test 1.1.2 - DNS

2

2

2

Test 1.1.3 - DOS

11

9

11

Test 1.1.4 - False negatives (modified exploits)

7

7

7

Test 1.1.5 - Finger

4

4

4

Test 1.1.6 - FTP

4

3

4

Test 1.1.7 - HTTP

35

29

35

Test 1.1.8 - ICMP

2

2

2

Test 1.1.9 - Reconnaissance

10

10

10

Test 1.1.10 - RPC

2

1

2

Total

82

72 / 82

82 / 82

 

Test 1.2 – Resistance to False Positives

Pass/Fail

Test 1.2.1 - Audiogalaxy FTP traffic

PASS

Test 1.2.2 - Normal directory traversal (below Web root)

PASS

Test 1.2.3 - MDAC heap overflow using GET instead of POST

PASS

Test 1.2.4 - Retrieval of Web page containing “suspicious” URLs

PASS

Test 1.2.5 - MSTREAM communications using invalid commands

PASS

Test 1.2.6 - Normal NetBIOS copy of “suspicious” files

PASS

Test 1.2.7 - Normal NetBIOS traffic

PASS

Test 1.2.8 - POP3 e-mail containing “suspicious” URLs

PASS

Test 1.2.9 - POP3 e-mail with “suspicious” DLL attachment

PASS

Test 1.2.10 - POP3 e-mail with “suspicious” Web page attachment

PASS

Test 1.2.11 - SMTP e-mail transfer containing “suspicious” URLs

PASS

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

PASS

Test 1.2.13 - SMTP e-mail transfer with “suspicious” Web page attachment

PASS

Test 1.2.14 - SNMP V3 packet with invalid request ID

PASS

Total Passed

14 / 14

 

Section 2 - NIDS Performance Under Load

Test 2.1 – UDP traffic to random valid ports

 

25Mbps

 

50Mbps

 

75Mbps

 

100Mbps

 

Max

Test 2.1.1 - 64 byte packet test - max 148,000pps

100%

100%

100%

99%

95Mbps

Test 2.1.2 - 440 byte packet test - max 26,000pps

100%

100%

100%

100%

100Mbps

Test 2.1.3 - 1514 byte packet test - max 8172pps

100%

100%

100%

100%

100Mbps

 

Test 2.2 – HTTP “maximum stress” traffic with no transaction delays

 

25Mbps

 

50Mbps

 

75Mbps

 

100Mbps

 

Max

Test 2.2.1 - Max 250 connections per second - ave packet size 1200 bytes - max 10,000 packets per second

 

100%

 

100%

 

100%

 

100%

 

100Mbps

Test 2.2.2 - Max 500 connections per second - ave packet size 540 bytes - max 23,000 packets per second

 

100%

 

100%

 

100%

 

100%

 

100Mbps

Test 2.2.3 - Max 1000 connections per second - ave packet size 440 bytes - max 28,000 packets per second

 

100%

 

100%

 

100%

 

100%

 

100Mbps

Test 2.2.4 - Max 2000 connections per second - ave packet size 350 bytes - max 36,000 packets per second

 

100%

 

100%

 

100%

 

100%

 

100Mbps

 

Test 2.3 – HTTP “maximum stress” traffic with transaction delays

 

25Mbps

 

50Mbps

 

75Mbps

 

100Mbps

 

Max

Test 2.3.1 - Max 500 connections per second - ave packet size 540 bytes - max 23,000 packets per second - 10 sec delay - max 5,000 open connections

 

100%

 

100%

 

100%

 

100%

 

100Mbps

Test 2.3.2 - Max 1000 connections per second - ave packet size 440 bytes - max 10,000 packets per second - 10 sec delay - max 5,000 open connections

 

100%

 

100%

 

100%

 

100%

 

100Mbps

  

Test 2.4 – Protocol mix

250Mbps

500Mbps

750Mbps

1Gbps

Max

Test 2.4.1 - 72% HTTP (540 byte packets) + 20% FTP + 4% UDP (256 byte packets). Max 38 connections per second - ave packet size 555 bytes - max 2,200 packets per second - max 14 open connections

 

100%

 

100%

 

100%

 

100%

 

100Mbps

 


 

Test 2.5 – Real World traffic

250Mbps

500Mbps

750Mbps

1Gbps

Max

Test 2.5.1 - Pure HTTP (simulated browsing session on NSS Web site). Max 10 connections per second - 3 new users per second - ave packet size 1000 bytes - max 11,000 packets per second

 

100%

 

100%

 

100%

 

100%

 

100Mbps

 

Section 3 - Network IDS Evasion

Test 3.1 – Evasion Baselines

Detected?

Test 3.1.1 - NSS Back Orifice ping

YES

Test 3.1.2 - Back Orifice connection

YES

Test 3.1.3 - FTP CWD root

YES

Test 3.1.4 - Fragroute baseline (test-cgi probe using HEAD)

YES

Test 3.1.5 - ISAPI printer overflow

YES

Test 3.1.6 - Showmount export lists

YES

Test 3.1.7 - Test CGI probe (/cgi-bin/test-cgi)

YES

Test 3.1.8 - PHF remote command execution

YES

Test 3.1.9 - Whisker baseline (test-cgi probe using HEAD)

YES

Total

9 / 9

 

Test 3.2 – Packet Fragmentation/Stream Segmentation

Detected?

Decoded?

Test 3.2.1 - IP fragmentation - ordered 8 byte fragments

 

YES

YES

Test 3.2.2 - IP fragmentation - ordered 24 byte fragments

 

YES

YES

Test 3.2.3 - IP fragmentation - out of order 8 byte fragments

 

YES

YES

Test 3.2.4 - IP fragmentation - ordered 8 byte fragments, duplicate last packet

 

YES

YES

Test 3.2.5 - IP fragmentation - out of order 8 byte fragments, duplicate last packet

YES

YES

Test 3.2.6 - IP fragmentation - ordered 8 byte fragments, reorder fragments in reverse

YES

YES

Test 3.2.7 - IP fragmentation - ordered 16 byte fragments, fragment overlap (favour new)

YES

YES

Test 3.2.8 - IP fragmentation - ordered 16 byte fragments, fragment overlap (favour old)

YES

YES

Test 3.2.9 - TCP segmentation - ordered 1 byte segments, interleaved duplicate segments with invalid TCP checksums

YES

YES

Test 3.2.10 - TCP segmentation - ordered 1 byte segments, interleaved duplicate segments with null TCP control flags

YES

YES

Test 3.2.11 - TCP segmentation - ordered 1 byte segments, interleaved duplicate segments with requests to resync sequence numbers mid-stream