Performance Comparison and Analysis of Slowloris, GoldenEye and Xerxes DDoS Attack Tools

DDoS attack has been the most preferred attack by the hackers in the recent years. This is due to its ability to create multitude and variety of problems. A large group of hackers and experts in this field have developed packages and tools that initiate DDoS attack on various type of networks. It is essential to evaluate and compare the strength of DDoS attack launched by these tools to devise efficient countermeasures against it. In this paper, the performance of three DDoS attack tools is compared and analyzed using parameters such as time to successfully launch attack, traffic rate, and packet size. The DDoS tools considered for evaluation are Slowloris, GoldenEye and Xerxes. The experimental results infer that Xerxes outperforms other tools in launching a DDoS attack.