Aris felt the hair on his arms rise. Port 7, Echo. An ancient debugging service. No one used it. And the payload… that wasn't random padding. He right-clicked, followed the UDP stream.
10.0.0.25 → 10.0.0.1 (Gateway) [ICMP] Redirect. Packet #5,002: 10.0.0.25 → 10.0.0.2 (DNS Server) [DNS] Query: where-is-the-backup.exe Packet #5,003: 10.0.0.25 → 10.0.0.25 [TCP] Flags: SYN, SYN-ACK, ACK. (A self-handshake. A TCP loop talking to itself.) wireshark lab
Aris had set up the capture filter: host 10.0.0.25 . That was "Client-3," the dummy machine the newbies would use. He expected a quiet sea of ARP requests and the occasional SYN-ACK handshake. Aris felt the hair on his arms rise
But tonight, the lab was screaming.
The screen froze for three seconds as Wireshark tried to render the chaos. Then, it filled. No one used it