Knockles - eBPF Port Knocking Tool 🚪🐝

Knockles 🦔, is a port knocking tool based on eBPF 🐝. It allows you to remotely open a TCP connection while being completely invisible to port scanners.

• A single SYN request is sent on an opened || closed port 📨 📫
• It carries an OTP for authentication so you can be the only one to open a port 🔐
• Once authentified, a random (HMAC based) port is opened for a TCP connection 🎲
• Then, the port is closed as soon as a connection has been established 🚪

Server configuration

Modify the following macros/variables

./knockles/src/knockles.bpf.c

• l.6:PORT: Port monitored for knocks [default: 80]

./knockles/src/knockles.c

• l.16:HMAC_DURATION: Time between two different OTP (in seconds) [default: 30]
• l.17:LISTENING_DURATION: Timeout of the opened port if no connection occurs (in seconds) [default: 30]
• l.18:SECRET: HMAC secret key ⚠️ Don't forget to modify this variable ⚠️ [default: MY_SECRET_KEY]

Server compilation

Requirements

Debian

sudo apt install git make pkg-config libelf-dev clang-11 libc6-dev-i386 bpftool libssl-dev -y
pip install scapy

Ubuntu

sudo apt install git make pkg-config libelf-dev clang-11 libc6-dev-i386 linux-tools-common linux-tools-$(uname -r) libssl-dev -y
pip install scapy

Build

cd ./knockles/src
make

Usage

Server side

Usage: ./knockles [OPTION]...
eBPF port knocking tool - Server.
      --help             display this help and exit
      --daemon           run program as daemon

Client side

usage: knuckknock.py [-h] -s KEY  -t TIME -d IP -p PORT

eBPF port knocking tool - Client.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -s KEY , --secret KEY 
                        HMAC secret key
  -t TIME, --time TIME  generated HMAC duration
  -d IP, --dst IP       destination IP address
  -p PORT, --port PORT  monitored port