Re: Application-based fingerprinting ?

From: Bill Pennington (billpat_private)
Date: Tue Feb 04 2003 - 10:18:47 PST

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    Jeremiah Grossman did a talk at BlackHat Singapore on Web Server  
    fingerprinting. You can find it here -  
    http://www.whitehatsec.com/presentations.html
    
    I also recall a tool that did the same for BIND servers but I can't  
    remember its name right now.
    
    
    On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 11:22 PM, Anders Thulin wrote:
    
    > Hi!
    >
    >   Fingerprinting a TCP stack seems a fairly well understood technique  
    > by
    > now, and there are several tools, more or less developed, for
    > the task: nmap, ring, ICMP-based techniques, etc.
    >
    >   A recent glance over the output from a dozen different finger
    > servers suggests that fingerprinting might be done fairly well on
    > application level, too, although possibly not always as exactly as
    > for TCP/IP-based techniques: applications are easier to move around
    > than TCP stacks are.
    >
    >   Have there been any attempts to explore this area further?
    > I've googled around, but not found anything obvious, except
    > for observations of some fingerprints, such as responses to
    > DNS SERVER_STATUS_REQUEST (a few respond with something else
    > than 'not implemented'), and so on.
    >
    > --  
    > Anders Thulin   anders.thulinat_private   040-661 50 63	
    > Ki Consulting AB, Box 85, SE-201 20 Malmö, Sweden
    >
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