Recent analysis of forged request headers constitued by HTTP DDoS

• Main Authors: Jaafar, Abdul Ghafar, Ismail, Saiful Adli, Abdullah, Mohd. Shahidan, Kama, Nazri, Azmi, Azri, Mohd. Yusop, Othman
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2020
• Subjects: T58.5-58.64 Information technology
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/91381/1/AbdulGhafarJaafar2020_RecentAnalysisofForgedRequestHeaders.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/91381/; http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20143820
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Application Layer Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are very challenging to detect. The shortfall at the application layer allows formation of HTTP DDoS as the request headers are not compulsory to be attached in an HTTP request. Furthermore, the header is editable, thus providing an atta...