Collected research

Noisy Decloaking Methods

ha.ckers.org web application security lab

Ways to make a browser connect straight out to a monitored host and unmask a user behind a proxy or Tor. ftp:// and gopher:// connect quietly; telnet:// and scp:// launch external clients loudly; file:///\\ hits SMB on ports 445 and 139. Correlating many simultaneous visitors needs unique hostnames or a block of IPs plus a sniffer.

Record

Document

ha.ckers.org web application security lab

Published by

ha.ckers.org

Topic

Other

In the archive

• Collected in the 2007 research round

Tags

• deanonymization
• info-leak
• proxy
• ftp
• side-channel
• detection
• owasp-a09-2021

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