Smurf

nounid 4175·updated May 9, 2026
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The Smurf attack works by spoofing the target address and sending a ping to the broadcast address for a remote network, which results in a large amount of ping replies being sent to the target.

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Classifications

Entity Type

Threat92%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Smurves
possessive
Smurf's
pluralpossessive
Smurves'

Framework definitions

SANS Glossary of Security Terms1 senseview framework →
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The Smurf attack works by spoofing the target address and sending a ping to the broadcast address for a remote network, which results in a large amount of ping replies being sent to the target.
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
The Smurf attack works by spoofing the target address and sending a ping to the broadcast address for a remote network, which results in a large amount of ping replies being sent to the target.
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