#1) HULK
Description:
HULK stands for HTTP Unbearable Load King. It is a DoS attack tool for the web server. It is created for research purposes.
Features:
- It can bypass the cache engine.
- It can generate unique and obscure traffic.
- It generates a great volume of traffic at the web server.
https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/112856/hulk.zip
#2) Tor’s Hammer
Description:
This tool is created for testing purposes. It is for slow post attack.
Features:
- If you run it through Tor network then you will remain unidentified.
- In order to run it through Tor, use 127.0.0.1:9050.
- With this tool, the attack can be made on Apache and IIS servers.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/torshammer/files/Torshammer/1.0/
#3) Slowloris
Features:
- It sends authorized HTTP traffic to the server.
- It doesn’t affect other services and ports on the target network.
- This attack tries to keep the maximum connection engaged with those that are open.
- It achieves this by sending a partial request.
- It tries to hold the connections as long as possible.
- As the server keeps the false connection open, this will overflow the connection pool and will deny the request to the true connections.
https://github.com/gkbrk/slowloris
#4) LOIC
Description: LOIC stands for Low Orbit Ion Cannon. It is a free and popular tool that is available for the DDoS attack.
Features:9
- It is easy to use.
- It sends UDP, TCP, and HTTP requests to the server.
- It can do the attack based on the URL or IP address of the server.
- Within seconds, the website will be down and it will stop responding to the actual requests.
- It will NOT HIDE your IP address. Even using the proxy server will not work. Because in that case, it will make the proxy server a target.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/loic/
#5) Xoic
Description: It is a DDoS attacking tool. With the help of this tool, the attack can be made on small websites.
Features:
- It is easy to use.
- It provides three modes to attack.
- Testing mode.
- Normal DoS attack mode.
- DoS attack with TCP or HTTP or UDP or ICMP message.
https://sourceforge.net/directory/os:mac/?q=xoic
#6) DDOSIM
Description: DDOSIM stands for DDoS Simulator. This tool is for simulating the real DDoS attack. It can attack on the website as well as on the network.
Features:
- It attacks the server by reproducing many Zombie hosts.
- These hosts create a complete TCP connection with the server.
- It can do HTTP DDoS attack using valid requests.
- It can do DDoS attack using invalid requests.
- It can make an attack on the application layer
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ddosim/files/ddosim-0.2.tar.gz/download
#7) RUDY
Description: RUDY stands for R-U-Dead-Yet. This tool makes the attack using a long form field submission through POST method.
Features:
- Interactive console menu.
- You can select the forms from the URL, for the POST-based DDoS attack.
- It identifies the form fields for data submission. Then injects the long content length data to this form, at a very slow rate.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/r-u-dead-yet/
#8) PyLoris
Description:
This tool is created for testing. To make a DoS attack on the server, this tool uses SOCKS proxies and SSL connections.
Features:
- The attack can be made on HTTP, FTP, SMTP, IMAP, and Telnet.
- It has an easy to use GUI.
- It directly makes an attack on service.
