AboutSTRESSFUL

Professional DDoS Simulation at Scale.

Stressful is a cloud-based, advanced DDoS Simulation and Stress Testing engine. It can scale to deliver up to 50M RPS, and is engineered to cover dozens of security modules.

Stressful specializes in stress testing, load testing, and DDoS simulation against networks and cloud environments. We provide world-class DoS and DDoS attack simulations covering the latest attack techniques on the market.

Stressful's proprietary technologies can scale to deliver as much traffic as required, with a wide range of sophisticated DDoS playbooks and modules that follow the latest trends in security research.

TheStressful Engine

Backed by Science

Built after years of academic and industry research on DoS attack patterns.

Modular

Built-in modules replicating real threat actor attacks. New modules in under 10 minutes.

Cloud-First

Scales across 8 cloud providers and 150+ regions using Terraform infrastructure-as-code modules.

Lightweight

Thousands of concurrent attacks per node, connected to a centralized controller.

As simple as that!How it Works

Client Request

The client requests an assessment with DDoS requirements.

Verification

Consultant verifies the client plan and initiates Stressful capabilities.

Attack Simulation

Attack established to simulate real-world scenarios.

StressfulMethodologies

Stressful Layer 7
Tests

Stressful develops a large number of modules for application-level attacks, including attacks against web servers, databases, and network devices.

Quantity-Wise
Stress test

Stressful is fully cloud-native; it scales within the cloud environment to deliver as much traffic as required.

Real-Consumer Behavior
Stress test

Stressful engine conducts real-consumer behavior stress tests with hundreds of thousands of clients per second.

Managed
Services

Stressful is managed by security consultants with extensive expertise in the industry. All simulations are controlled and monitored.

Customizable
Tests

Attacks can be customized by various characteristics and scenarios.

Offensive Security
Oriented

Stressful follows the latest trends and research in offensive capabilities of attacks.

StressfulPlaybooks & Modules

Stressful includes dozens of attacks & techniques across four categories:

HTTP & Application Layer

Application-level DoS techniques targeting web servers and HTTP protocols.

HTTP SlowPost Attack

HTTP Slowloris (GET)

HTTP SlowLoris (Infinite Headers)

HTTP Web Cache-Poisoning

HTTP GET Flood

HTTP Keep-Alive Flood

HTTP Unlimited Downloads

HTTP SlowPost (Infinite Uploads)

HTTP HULK Attack

HTTP/2 DoS Attack

HTTP DoS via Headless Browsers

HTTP Memory Exhaustion

HTTP Hash Collision

Cloud-Specific Attacks

Denial of wallet attacks targeting cloud billing and resource limits.

AWS Denial of Wallet

Azure Denial of Wallet

XML & Protocol

Attacks targeting XML parsers and protocol-level vulnerabilities.

SOAP XML Quadratic Blowup

SOAP XML Billion Laughs

Resource Exhaustion

Attacks that exhaust server resources and application-level capacity.

WordPress Resource Exhaustion

MySQL Resource Exhaustion