Scapy is a packet manipulation program written in Python by Philippe Biondi.
Within this article I will show you the code required to build a 3WHS within Python using Scapy.
Prevent RST
At the point you send the SYN from Scapy and the SYN-ACK is returned. Because the Linux kernel receives the SYN-ACK but didn’t send the SYN it will issue a RST. To prevent this IPtables can be used, using the syntax below,
iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --tcp-flags RST RST -j DROP iptables -L
Code
In order to perform a 3WHS with Scapy the following code is used.
#!/usr/local/bin/python from scapy.all import * # VARIABLES src = sys.argv[1] dst = sys.argv[2] sport = random.randint(1024,65535) dport = int(sys.argv[3]) # SYN ip=IP(src=src,dst=dst) SYN=TCP(sport=sport,dport=dport,flags='S',seq=1000) SYNACK=sr1(ip/SYN) # ACK ACK=TCP(sport=sport, dport=dport, flags='A', seq=SYNACK.ack, ack=SYNACK.seq + 1) send(ip/ACK)
Example
To run the script above (based on you saving the script as 3WHS.py) the following syntax is used ./3WHS.py <src ip> <dst ip> <dst port>
Once run your see the following packets sent and received via a tcpdump,
[[email protected] ~]# tcpdump -ni any port 443 -S 14:53:14.402953 IP 172.16.120.5.62409 > 172.16.100.101.https: S 1000:1000(0) win 8192 14:53:14.406422 IP 172.16.100.101.https > 172.16.120.5.62409: S 1629791522:1629791522(0) ack 10 01 win 18484 14:53:14.505963 IP 172.16.120.5.62409 > 172.16.100.101.https: . ack 1629791523 win 8192 # 172.16.120.5 = client / 172.16.100.101 = server
On the server you will then see the connection established by running a netstat,
[[email protected] ~]# netstat -anp | grep 443 | grep EST tcp 0 0 ::ffff:127.0.0.1:443 ::ffff:172.16.120.5:42375 ESTABLISHED 2611/httpd
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