Challenge: DDos attack

Overview

A distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is a cyberattack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users. In this challenge you will become the cybersecurity analyst who was informed that the onboard entertainment system became almost unresponsive as it slowed downed rapidly. Your task will be to analyse the incident in details by analysing the traffic of the network.

Objectives

 

• Learn to read and analyse network packets from .pcap files.
• Learn to detect DDos related traffic from network packets.
 

Instructions

1. Read carefully the provided materials on resources section.
2. Read this guide to connect to the remote lab
3. Get familiar with the nature of DDos attacks.
4. Download the .pcap file given to you during the challenge.
5. Install Wireshark (https://www.wireshark.org/) to be able to analyse the .pcap file.
6. Open downloaded .pcap file in Wireshark.
7. Answer to all questions in the challenge based on your findings using Wireshark.
 

Resources

• Wireshark at https://www.wireshark.org/

Outcome

By completing this challenge, you will gain practical skills to analyse network packets and to detect DDos attacks from them.