June 2008 - cypherpunks-legacy

detecting ssh tunnels with bayes and packet timing
by Eugen Leitl 30 Jun '08

30 Jun '08

http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2008/06/28/detecting-ssh-tunnels/ Detecting SSH tunnels Filed under: network, security b Tags: network, security b coderrr @ 6:35 pm Italian researchers have published a paper on the Detection of Encrypted Tunnels across Network Boundaries. I came across it in a google search because Ibve been thinking of writing a program which does something similar. It doesnbt seem like anyone else has picked up on this research yet so I thought I should mention it. Here is a link to the actual paper: pdf or scribd. They claim their technique can differentiate between b normalb ssh or scp sessions and ssh sessions which are being used to tunnel traffic (through sshbs port forwarding mechanism). This is accomplished through a naive Bayes classifier, which they first trained with b normalb ssh sessions. The two variables used to classify a session are the size of the packets and the difference in arrival time of two consecutive packets. With just these, they can classify with 99% accuracy whether an ssh session is a tunnel. They were also able to classify the actual protocol (P2P, POP, SMTP, HTTP) of the tunneled connection with close to 90% accuracy. Although their research is quite interesting there are a few things which limit its practicality. They can only detect tunnels going through ssh servers which they control. This is because their detection mechanism can only handle a single authentication type whereas an ssh server can (and usually does) allow multiple (e.g. public-key or password). This requires admins of the server to limit the allowed authentication options to a single consistent choice. They also require the ssh server _and_ client to disable compression. Their technique will also falsely classify a second login attempt (after a failed login) as a tunnel and drop the connection. In their words: b However, this should not be a major problem: simply, if the user is entitled to connect, they will try again.b So it seems the use of a tool like this would be limited to an extremely controlled environment where users are limited to a white-list set of network protocols (so that they canbt use a different tunneling mechanism, stunnel for example) and only allowed to ssh to servers under the control of the censoring party. In which case you would wonder why the admin wouldnbt just set the ssh serversb AllowTcpForwarding option to false. It sounds like this is just preliminary work so maybe their future research will solve all these problems. If perfected this technology could be used by ISPs to block or throttle even encrypted P2P traffic. Ibd also like to note that it would probably be easy to create a tunneling mechanism which thwarts their detection attempts. Knowing that they use packet size and inter packet intervals you could easily manipulate these to match whatever protocol type you wanted. While looking around one of the researchers web pages (Franceso Gringoli) I found a pretty cool Linux/OSX utility called sshgate. It allows you to transparently tunnel all your connections over ssh. This is great for programs which do not give you the option to use a socks server and which do not play nice with socksification. I havenbt tested it out so Ibm not sure if it actually works.

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