Ping of Death

In a Ping of Death (PoD) attack, an attacker attempts to crash, destabilize, or freeze the target system or service by sending malformed or oversized packets using a simple ping command

• Suppose an attacker sends a packet ==with a size of 65,538 bytes to the target ==web server
• This size exceeds the size limit prescribed by RFC 791 IP, which is 65,535 bytes
• The reassembly process performed by the receiving system might cause the system to crash
• In such attacks, the attacker’s identity can be easily spoofed, and the attacker might not need detailed knowledge of the target machine, except its IP address.

Using hping3

hping3 -S 192.168.60.130 -a 192.168.60.135 -p 21 --flood

sudo hping3 -d 65538 -S -p 21 --flood 192.168.60.130