Ameaça na palma da mão: smartphones como vetores de ataques slow de negação de serviço

Abstract

Given the hardware and software evolution of mobile devices, the new generation of smartphones comes with great processing power and connectivity. In this context, these features, coupled with Unix-based operating systems (Android and iOS), turn them into potential vectors for denial-of-service attacks, especially salow ones, which use low bandwidth, processor and memory. This work presents an tool capable of running as an Android device application, implemented exactly as the slowloris attack, being capable of disabling a medium-sized web service by it’s execution in a single mobile device. The proposed solution was evaluated and the results were compared with the desktop version of the tool.