goldeneye - HTTP DoS test tool

Author

       GoldenEye was written by Jan Seidl <jseidl@wroot.org>.

       This manual page was written by Joao Eriberto Mota Filho <eriberto@debian.org>  for  the  Debian  project
       (but may be used by others).

GOLDENEYE 1.2.0                                     Mar 2016                                        goldeneye(1)

Description

       GoldenEye  is  a  HTTP  DoS  Test Tool. This tool can be used to test if a site is susceptible to Deny of
       Service (DoS) attacks. Is possible to open several parallel connections against a URL to check if the web
       server can be compromised.

       The program tests the security in networks and uses 'HTTP Keep Alive + NoCache' as attack vector.

Name

goldeneye - HTTP DoS test tool

Notes

       GoldenEye  can  create  several  concurrent  workers  and  it  can  use all local resources.  Choose good
       parameters to avoid local problems.

Options

-u,--useragents
              File with user-agents to use. Default: randomly generated. On Debian systems, there are  lists  of
              user-agents at /usr/share/goldeneye/useragents/ directory.

       -w,--workers
              Number of concurrent workers. Default: 10.

       -s,--sockets
              Number of concurrent sockets. Default: 500.

       -m,--method
              HTTP method to use. Values: 'get', 'post' and 'random'. Default: get.

       -d,--debug
              Enable debug mode [more verbose output].

       -h,--help
              Show this help.