slowloris - Security testing tool for web servers

Authors

       Slowloris was created by: Gokberk Yaltirakli <opensource@gkbrk.com>

       This manual page was written by Josenison Ferreira da Silva <nilsonfsilva@hotmail.com>
       for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

Bug Reports

       Report bugs to https://github.com/gkbrk/slowloris/issues

Security testing tool for web servers            September 2023                                     SLOWLORIS(1)

Description

       Open source tool used to perform Denial of Service (DoS) attacks on web
       servers. Slowloris exploits a vulnerability in web servers called “Keep-Alive”
       to exhaust server resources and make them inaccessible.

Examples

Example1:
       $ slowloris -p 80 -s 200 example.com

       Example2:
       $ slowloris -x --proxy-host=proxy.example.com --proxy-port=1080 example.com

Name

       slowloris - Security testing tool for web servers

Options

-p,--port
              Specifies the target web server's port (default: 80).

       -s,--sockets
              Specifies the number of simultaneous sockets to use (default: 100).

       -v,--verbose
              Increases logging level for terminal output.

       -ua,--randuseragents
              Randomizes user agents with each request.

       -x,--useproxy
              Utilizes a SOCKS5 proxy for connections.

       --https
              Uses the HTTPS protocol for requests.

       --sleep
              Sets a sleep time interval between each header sent.