ICMP Attacks

Question 1

ICMP Flood

Answer 1

A flood of ICMP Echo Requests (pings) comes in from one host (DoS) or multiple hosts (DDos)

Question 2

ICMP Echo Request and Echo Reply

Answer 2

Used to perform host verification and DoS attacks.

Question 3

ICMP unreachable

Answer 3

Used to perform network reconnaissance and scanning attacks.

Question 4

ICMP Mask Reply

Answer 4

Used to map an internal IP network.

Question 5

ICMP redirects

Answer 5

This is used to lure a target into sending all traffic through a compromised device and create a MiTM attack.