Network Flight Simulator (flightsim)
A lightweight utility to generate malicious network traffic patterns for evaluating security controls and network visibility.
What is Network Flight Simulator (flightsim)?
Network Flight Simulator (flightsim) is a command-line utility that generates simulated malicious network traffic to help security teams evaluate their security controls and monitoring tools. It creates traffic patterns mimicking real-world threats like DNS tunneling, DGA traffic, C2 communications, and SSH exfiltration, allowing teams to test detection capabilities in a safe environment.
Security engineers, SOC analysts, and red team members who need to validate network security controls, SIEM alerting, and threat detection pipelines.
It provides a lightweight, easy-to-use tool for proactive security validation without requiring complex setups or exposing networks to real threats, with a wide range of built-in modules covering common attack patterns.
Overview
A utility to safely generate malicious network traffic patterns and evaluate controls.
Use Cases
Best For
- Testing SIEM alert rules for malware traffic detection
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