AkhtarWall

VERSION 4 OF AKHTARWALL IS CURRENTLY NOT IN PRODUCTION RELEASE.

AkhtarWall provides Layer-4 DDOS Mitigation (UDP only (for now)), at the Software Level, utilizing the following software:

• (REQUIRED DEPENDENCY) TCPDUMP -> in order to read incoming traffic from target network interface.
• (REQUIRED DEPENDENCY) IPTABLES -> in order to drop deemed malicious traffic.

(Download: https://github.com/Aaron-Akhtar/AkhtarWall/releases/download/3.0/AkhtarWall.jar)

During the mitigation period, it will LIVE/CONCURRENTLY transmit logs to a unique file in the directory:

./AkhtarWall/logs/%dd-MM-yyyy-HH-mm-ss%.txt
./AkhtarWall/droppedSourcePorts.txt

How to use AkhtarWall on Debian >

# Download AkhtarWall Executable Jar
wget https://github.com/Aaron-Akhtar/AkhtarWall/releases/download/3.0/AkhtarWall.jar

# To start, install the JRE (Java)
apt-get install default-jre -y

# Next, install TCPDUMP, one of the required dependencies
apt-get install tcpdump -y

# Last, but not least, install IPTABLES
apt-get install iptables -y

In order to start running AkhtarWall, execute the following command:

java -jar AkhtarWall.jar [NET_INTERFACE] [MAX_THREADS] [MITIGATION_LENGTH_SECONDS] [PPS_TRIGGER] [MBPS_TRIGGER] [MAX_PACKETS_PER_IP] [BLACKLISTED_HOSTS_FILE]

Example Command:

java -jar AkhtarWall.jar eth0 45 60 2000 10 3 blacklisted-ips.txt

Developed by Yours Truly, Aaron Akhtar...