Title
Hershel: single-packet os fingerprinting
Abstract
Traditional TCP/IP fingerprinting tools (e.g., nmap) are poorly suited for Internet-wide use due to the large amount of traffic and intrusive nature of the probes. This can be overcome by approaches that rely on a single SYN packet to elicit a vector of features from the remote server; however, these methods face difficult classification problems due to the high volatility of the features and severely limited amounts of information contained therein. Since these techniques have not been studied before, we first pioneer stochastic theory of single-packet OS fingerprinting, build a database of 116 OSes, design a classifier based on our models, evaluate its accuracy in simulations, and then perform OS classification of 37.8M hosts from an Internet-wide scan.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/TNET.2015.2447492
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Internet,Jitter,Servers,Loss measurement,IP networks,Probes,Ports (Computers)
Data mining,Computer science,Stochastic theory,Network packet,Internet measurement,Transmission Control Protocol,Classifier (linguistics),Volatility (finance)
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
24
4
1063-6692
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.49
29
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zain Shamsi1111.61
Ankur Nandwani270.49
Derek Leonard329915.85
Dmitri Loguinov4129891.08