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FIN Scan


Hunting

Statistics → Conversations → IPv4
Statistics → Endpoints → IPv4
Statistics → Protocol Hierarchy
Statistics → IO Graph


Goal

Attacker sends FIN-only packets.

  • Open → no response
  • Closed → RST

Filters

# FIN only
tcp.flags.fin == 1 && 
tcp.flags.syn == 0 && 
tcp.flags.ack == 0

# Detect Port Sweep
tcp.flags.fin == 1