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Capec-313 Detail

Passive OS Fingerprinting

Standard Software Likelihood: High Typical Severity: Low

Parents: 224

Threats: T60 T80 T258 T288 T291 T302 T334 T392 T407

Description

An adversary engages in activity to detect the version or type of OS software in a an environment by passively monitoring communication between devices, nodes, or applications. Passive techniques for operating system detection send no actual probes to a target, but monitor network or client-server communication between nodes in order to identify operating systems based on observed behavior as compared to a database of known signatures or values. While passive OS fingerprinting is not usually as reliable as active methods, it is generally better able to evade detection.

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External ID Source Link Description
CAPEC-313 capec https://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/313.html
CWE-200 cwe http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/200.html
T1082 ATTACK https://attack.mitre.org/wiki/Technique/T1082 System Information Discovery
REF-33 reference_from_CAPEC Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray, George Kurtz, Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions (6th Edition), 2009, McGraw Hill
REF-128 reference_from_CAPEC http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc793.html Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Information Processing Techniques Office, Information Sciences Institute University of Southern California, RFC793 - Transmission Control Protocol, 1981--09, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
REF-212 reference_from_CAPEC Gordon "Fyodor" Lyon, Nmap Network Scanning: The Official Nmap Project Guide to Network Discovery and Security Scanning (3rd "Zero Day" Edition,), 2008, Insecure.com LLC
REF-130 reference_from_CAPEC http://phrack.org/issues/51/11.html Gordon "Fyodor" Lyon, The Art of Port Scanning (Volume: 7, Issue. 51), Phrack Magazine, 1997

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  1. The ability to monitor network communications.Access to at least one host, and the privileges to interface with the network interface card.
  1. Any tool capable of monitoring network communications, like a packet sniffer (e.g., Wireshark)

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