Smurf Attack

In a Smurf attack, the attacker spoofs the source IP address with the victim’s IP address and sends a large number of ICMP ECHO request packets to an IP broadcast network

• This causes all the hosts on the broadcast network to respond to the received ICMP ECHO requests
• These responses are sent to the victim’s machine because the IP address was spoofed by the attacker, causing significant traffic to the victim’s machine and ultimately making it crash