Memcrashed – Memcached A DDoS Exploit Tool For Linux

What is Memcached?

Memcached is an in-memory key-value store for small chunks of arbitrary data (strings, objects) from results of database calls, API calls, or page rendering.its Free & open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.

Requirements for Memcrashed Memcached Tool

The only thing you need installed is Python 3.x

apt-get install python3

You also require to have Scapy and Shodan modules installed

pip install scapy

pip install shodan

Using Shodan API

This tool requires you to own an upgraded Shodan API

You may obtain one for free in Shodan if you sign up using a .edu email

Using Docker

Demo

You may deploy this tool to the cloud using a light Alpine Docker image.

 Note: Make sure to explicitly enter ‘y’ or ‘n’ to the interactive prompt

git clone https://github.com/649/Memcrashed-DDoS-Exploit.git
cd Memcrashed-DDoS-Exploit
echo "SHODAN_KEY" > api.txt
docker build -t memcrashed .
docker run -it memcrashed