pingtunnel Open-Source Projects

pingtunnel

2 2,915 5.5 Go

Pingtunnel is a tool that send TCP/UDP traffic over ICMP
ptunnel-ng

1 357 3.2 C

Tunnel TCP connections through ICMP.

Project mention: How does Linux NAT a ping? | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-10

Nod, I remember it not being as effective/easy to hide as exfiltration over UDP/DNS too, as there was always less background noise to hide in. That said, I found this with a quick search - https://github.com/utoni/ptunnel-ng for those who still want to do it. A number of hotels and captive portals still let ping’s through even if they play tricks with UDP/TCP.
Any significant data over ICMP will always stick out though if anyone is doing analysis. Which isn’t often, frankly, in situations like I described, but…

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