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NAME¶
hping3 - send (almost) arbitrary TCP/IP packets to network hostsSYNOPSIS¶
hping3 [ -hvnqVDzZ012WrfxykQbFSRPAUXYjJBuTG ] [ -c count ] [ -i wait ] [ --fast ] [ -I interface ] [ -9 signature ] [ -a host ] [ -t ttl ] [ -N ip id ] [ -H ip protocol ] [ -g fragoff ] [ -m mtu ] [ -o tos ] [ -C icmp type ] [ -K icmp code ] [ -s source port ] [ -p[+][+] dest port ] [ -w tcp window ] [ -O tcp offset ] [ -M tcp sequence number ] [ -L tcp ack ] [ -d data size ] [ -E filename ] [ -e signature ] [ --icmp-ipver version ] [ --icmp-iphlen length ] [ --icmp-iplen length ] [ --icmp-ipid id ] [ --icmp-ipproto protocol ] [ --icmp-cksum checksum ] [ --icmp-ts ] [ --icmp-addr ] [ --tcpexitcode ] [ --tcp-mss ] [ --tcp-timestamp ] [ --tr-stop ] [ --tr-keep-ttl ] [ --tr-no-rtt ] [ --rand-dest ] [ --rand-source ] [ --beep ] hostnameDESCRIPTION¶
hping3 is a network tool able to send custom TCP/IP packets and to display target replies like ping program does with ICMP replies. hping3 handle fragmentation, arbitrary packets body and size and can be used in order to transfer files encapsulated under supported protocols. Using hping3 you are able to perform at least the following stuff:- Test firewall rules
- Advanced port scanning
- Test net performance using different protocols,
packet size, TOS (type of service) and fragmentation.
- Path MTU discovery
- Transferring files between even really fascist firewall
rules.
- Traceroute-like under different protocols.
- Firewalk-like usage.
- Remote OS fingerprinting.
- TCP/IP stack auditing.
- A lot of others.
HPING SITE¶
primary site at http://www.hping.org. You can found both the stable release and the instruction to download the latest source code at http://www.hping.org/download.htmlBASE OPTIONS¶
- -h --help
- Show an help screen on standard output, so you can pipe to less.
- -v --version
- Show version information and API used to access to data link layer, linux sock packet or libpcap.
- -c --count count
- Stop after sending (and receiving) count response packets. After last packet was send hping3 wait COUNTREACHED_TIMEOUT seconds target host replies. You are able to tune COUNTREACHED_TIMEOUT editing hping2.h
- -i --interval
- Wait the specified number of seconds or micro seconds between sending each packet. --interval X set wait to X seconds, --interval uX set wait to X micro seconds. The default is to wait one second between each packet. Using hping3 to transfer files tune this option is really important in order to increase transfer rate. Even using hping3 to perform idle/spoofing scanning you should tune this option, see HPING3-HOWTO for more information.
- --fast
- Alias for -i u10000. Hping will send 10 packets for second.
- --faster
- Alias for -i u1. Faster then --fast ;) (but not as fast as your computer can send packets due to the signal-driven design).
- --flood
- Sent packets as fast as possible, without taking care to show incoming replies. This is ways faster than to specify the -i u0 option.
- -n --numeric
- Numeric output only, No attempt will be made to lookup symbolic names for host addresses.
- -q --quiet
- Quiet output. Nothing is displayed except the summary lines at startup time and when finished.
- -I --interface interface name
- By default on linux and BSD systems hping3 uses default routing interface. In other systems or when there is no default route hping3 uses the first non-loopback interface. However you are able to force hping3 to use the interface you need using this option. Note: you don't need to specify the whole name, for example -I et will match eth0 ethernet0 myet1 et cetera. If no interfaces match hping3 will try to use lo.
- -V --verbose
- Enable verbose output. TCP replies will be shown as
follows:
- -D --debug
- Enable debug mode, it's useful when you experience some problem with hping3. When debug mode is enabled you will get more information about interface detection, data link layer access, interface settings, options parsing, fragmentation, HCMP protocol and other stuff.
- -z --bind
- Bind CTRL+Z to time to live (TTL) so you will able to increment/decrement ttl of outgoing packets pressing CTRL+Z once or twice.
- -Z --unbind
- Unbind CTRL+Z so you will able to stop hping3.
- --beep
- Beep for every matching received packet (but not for ICMP errors).
PROTOCOL SELECTION¶
Default protocol is TCP, by default hping3 will send tcp headers to target host's port 0 with a winsize of 64 without any tcp flag on. Often this is the best way to do an 'hide ping', useful when target is behind a firewall that drop ICMP. Moreover a tcp null-flag to port 0 has a good probability of not being logged.- -0 --rawip
- RAW IP mode, in this mode hping3 will send IP header with data appended with --signature and/or --file, see also --ipproto that allows you to set the ip protocol field.
- -1 --icmp
- ICMP mode, by default hping3 will send ICMP echo-request, you can set other ICMP type/code using --icmptype --icmpcode options.
- -2 --udp
- UDP mode, by default hping3 will send udp to target host's port 0. UDP header tunable options are the following: --baseport, --destport, --keep.
- -8 --scan
- Scan mode, the option expects an argument that describes
groups of ports to scan. port groups are comma separated: a number
describes just a single port, so 1,2,3 means port 1, 2 and 3. ranges are
specified using a start-end notation, like 1-1000, that tell hping to scan
ports between 1 and 1000 (included). the special word all is an
alias for 0-65535, while the special word known includes all the
ports listed in /etc/services.
- -9 --listen signature
- HPING3 listen mode, using this option hping3 waits for packet that contain signature and dump from signature end to packet's end. For example if hping3 --listen TEST reads a packet that contain 234-09sdflkjs45-TESThello_world it will display hello_world.
IP RELATED OPTIONS¶
- -a --spoof hostname
- Use this option in order to set a fake IP source address, this option ensures that target will not gain your real address. However replies will be sent to spoofed address, so you will can't see them. In order to see how it's possible to perform spoofed/idle scanning see the HPING3-HOWTO.
- --rand-source
- This option enables the random source mode. hping will send packets with random source address. It is interesting to use this option to stress firewall state tables, and other per-ip basis dynamic tables inside the TCP/IP stacks and firewall software.
- --rand-dest
- This option enables the random destination mode.
hping will send the packets to random addresses obtained following the
rule you specify as the target host. You need to specify a numerical IP
address as target host like 10.0.0.x. All the occurrences of
x will be replaced with a random number in the range 0-255. So to
obtain Internet IP addresses in the whole IPv4 space use something like
hping x.x.x.x --rand-dest. If you are not sure about what kind of
addresses your rule is generating try to use the --debug switch to
display every new destination address generated. When this option is
turned on, matching packets will be accept from all the destinations.
- -t --ttl time to live
- Using this option you can set TTL (time to live) of outgoing packets, it's likely that you will use this with --traceroute or --bind options. If in doubt try `hping3 some.host.com -t 1 --traceroute'.
- -N --id
- Set ip->id field. Default id is random but if fragmentation is turned on and id isn't specified it will be getpid() & 0xFFFF, to implement a better solution is in TODO list.
- -H --ipproto
- Set the ip protocol in RAW IP mode.
- -W --winid
- id from Windows* systems before Win2k has different byte ordering, if this option is enable hping3 will properly display id replies from those Windows.
- -r --rel
- Display id increments instead of id. See the HPING3-HOWTO for more information. Increments aren't computed as id[N]-id[N-1] but using packet loss compensation. See relid.c for more information.
- -f --frag
- Split packets in more fragments, this may be useful in order to test IP stacks fragmentation performance and to test if some packet filter is so weak that can be passed using tiny fragments (anachronistic). Default 'virtual mtu' is 16 bytes. see also --mtu option.
- -x --morefrag
- Set more fragments IP flag, use this option if you want that target host send an ICMP time-exceeded during reassembly.
- -y --dontfrag
- Set don't fragment IP flag, this can be used to perform MTU path discovery.
- -g --fragoff fragment offset value
- Set the fragment offset.
- -m --mtu mtu value
- Set different 'virtual mtu' than 16 when fragmentation is enabled. If packets size is greater that 'virtual mtu' fragmentation is automatically turned on.
- -o --tos hex_tos
- Set Type Of Service (TOS), for more information try --tos help.
- -G --rroute
- Record route. Includes the RECORD_ROUTE option in each packet sent and displays the route buffer of returned packets. Note that the IP header is only large enough for nine such routes. Many hosts ignore or discard this option. Also note that using hping you are able to use record route even if target host filter ICMP. Record route is an IP option, not an ICMP option, so you can use record route option even in TCP and UDP mode.
ICMP RELATED OPTIONS¶
- -C --icmptype type
- Set icmp type, default is ICMP echo request (implies --icmp).
- -K --icmpcode code
- Set icmp code, default is 0 (implies --icmp).
- --icmp-ipver
- Set IP version of IP header contained into ICMP data, default is 4.
- --icmp-iphlen
- Set IP header length of IP header contained into ICMP data, default is 5 (5 words of 32 bits).
- --icmp-iplen
- Set IP packet length of IP header contained into ICMP data, default is the real length.
- --icmp-ipid
- Set IP id of IP header contained into ICMP data, default is random.
- --icmp-ipproto
- Set IP protocol of IP header contained into ICMP data, default is TCP.
- --icmp-cksum
- Set ICMP checksum, for default is the valid checksum.
- --icmp-ts
- Alias for --icmptype 13 (to send ICMP timestamp requests).
- --icmp-addr
- Alias for --icmptype 17 (to send ICMP address mask requests).
TCP/UDP RELATED OPTIONS¶
- -s --baseport source port
- hping3 uses source port in order to guess replies sequence number. It starts with a base source port number, and increase this number for each packet sent. When packet is received sequence number can be computed as replies.dest.port - base.source.port. Default base source port is random, using this option you are able to set different number. If you need that source port not be increased for each sent packet use the -k --keep option.
- -p --destport [+][+]dest port
- Set destination port, default is 0. If '+' character precedes dest port number (i.e. +1024) destination port will be increased for each reply received. If double '+' precedes dest port number (i.e. ++1024), destination port will be increased for each packet sent. By default destination port can be modified interactively using CTRL+z.
- --keep
- keep still source port, see --baseport for more information.
- -w --win
- Set TCP window size. Default is 64.
- -O --tcpoff
- Set fake tcp data offset. Normal data offset is tcphdrlen / 4.
- -M --tcpseq
- Set the TCP sequence number.
- -L --tcpack
- Set the TCP ack.
- -Q --seqnum
- This option can be used in order to collect sequence
numbers generated by target host. This can be useful when you need to
analyze whether TCP sequence number is predictable. Output example:
HPING uaz (eth0 192.168.4.41): S set, 40 headers + 0 data bytes 2361294848 +2361294848 2411626496 +50331648 2545844224 +134217728 2713616384 +167772160 2881388544 +167772160 3049160704 +167772160 3216932864 +167772160 3384705024 +167772160 3552477184 +167772160 3720249344 +167772160 3888021504 +167772160 4055793664 +167772160 4223565824 +167772160
- -b --badcksum
- Send packets with a bad UDP/TCP checksum.
- --tcp-mss
- Enable the TCP MSS option and set it to the given value.
- --tcp-timestamp
- Enable the TCP timestamp option, and try to guess the timestamp update frequency and the remote system uptime.
- -F --fin
- Set FIN tcp flag.
- -S --syn
- Set SYN tcp flag.
- -R --rst
- Set RST tcp flag.
- -P --push
- Set PUSH tcp flag.
- -A --ack
- Set ACK tcp flag.
- -U --urg
- Set URG tcp flag.
- -X --xmas
- Set Xmas tcp flag.
- -Y --ymas
- Set Ymas tcp flag.
COMMON OPTIONS¶
- -d --data data size
- Set packet body size. Warning, using --data 40 hping3 will not generate 0 byte packets but protocol_header+40 bytes. hping3 will display packet size information as first line output, like this: HPING www.yahoo.com (ppp0 204.71.200.67): NO FLAGS are set, 40 headers + 40 data bytes
- -E --file filename
- Use filename contents to fill packet's data.
- -e --sign signature
- Fill first signature length bytes of data with signature. If the signature length is bigger than data size an error message will be displayed. If you don't specify the data size hping will use the signature size as data size. This option can be used safely with --file filename option, remainder data space will be filled using filename.
- -j --dump
- Dump received packets in hex.
- -J --print
- Dump received packets' printable characters.
- -B --safe
- Enable safe protocol, using this option lost packets in
file transfers will be resent. For example in order to send file
/etc/passwd from host A to host B you may use the following:
[host_a] # hping3 host_b --udp -p 53 -d 100 --sign signature --safe --file /etc/passwd [host_b] # hping3 host_a --listen signature --safe --icmp
- -u --end
- If you are using --file filename option, tell you when EOF has been reached. Moreover prevent that other end accept more packets. Please, for more information see the HPING3-HOWTO.
- -T --traceroute
- Traceroute mode. Using this option hping3 will increase ttl for each ICMP time to live 0 during transit received. Try hping3 host --traceroute. This option implies --bind and --ttl 1. You can override the ttl of 1 using the --ttl option. Since 2.0.0 stable it prints RTT information.
- --tr-keep-ttl
- Keep the TTL fixed in traceroute mode, so you can monitor just one hop in the route. For example, to monitor how the 5th hop changes or how its RTT changes you can try hping3 host --traceroute --ttl 5 --tr-keep-ttl.
- --tr-stop
- If this option is specified hping will exit once the first packet that isn't an ICMP time exceeded is received. This better emulates the traceroute behavior.
- --tr-no-rtt
- Don't show RTT information in traceroute mode. The ICMP time exceeded RTT information aren't even calculated if this option is set.
- --tcpexitcode
- Exit with last received packet tcp->th_flag as exit code. Useful for scripts that need, for example, to known if the port 999 of some host reply with SYN/ACK or with RST in response to SYN, i.e. the service is up or down.
TCP OUTPUT FORMAT¶
The standard TCP output format is the following:UDP OUTPUT FORMAT¶
The standard output format is:ICMP OUTPUT FORMAT¶
An example of ICMP output is:AUTHOR¶
Salvatore Sanfilippo <antirez@invece.org>, with the help of the people mentioned in AUTHORS file and at http://www.hping.org/authors.htmlBUGS¶
Even using the --end and --safe options to transfer files the final packet will be padded with 0x00 bytes. Data is read without care about alignment, but alignment is enforced in the data structures. This will not be a problem under i386 but, while usually the TCP/IP headers are naturally aligned, may create problems with different processors and bogus packets if there is some unaligned access around the code (hopefully none). On solaris hping does not work on the loopback interface. This seems a solaris problem, as stated in the tcpdump-workers mailing list, so the libpcap can't do nothing to handle it properly.SEE ALSO¶
ping(8), traceroute(8), ifconfig(8), nmap(1)2001 Aug 14 |