📡 Layer 4 (L4) Methods

Transport-layer methods focused on low-level network flooding and protocol stress tests.

• UDP Flood – Sends rapid UDP packets to overwhelm the target port.
• TCP Flood – Establishes and sends TCP connections/payloads.
• ACK/RST Flood – Abuses TCP handshake sequence to drain resources.
• SYN Cookie Bypass – Attempts to bypass SYN-cookies by spoofing responses.
• Ping of Death – Sends oversized ping packets causing buffer overflows.
• Smurf Attack – ICMP echo requests with spoofed IPs to broadcast addresses.
• XMAS Tree Flood – TCP packets with all flags set to confuse systems.
• IP Spoofed SYN Flood – SYN flood using randomized fake IPs.
• Reflected ICMP Flood – ICMP reflection via misconfigured networks.
• GRE Flood – Generic Routing Encapsulation abuse for ISP layer stress.
• Fragmentation Flood – Breaks packets into pieces, overwhelming reassembly.