Reject middlebox decoy SYN-ACKs in SYN scan - #1733
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WalkthroughThe scanner now filters decoy SYN-ACK packets. The runner verifies low-confidence hosts while preserving their status and open ports. Port-bearing result callbacks now include confidence. ChangesDecoy SYN-ACK filtering
Confidence preservation
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to The SYN-ACK decoy rejection currently drops packets without exposing the promised notification callback, so affected targets cannot be handed off for CONNECT rescans and may lose recall; an unresolved static-analysis error can also fail the lint pipeline. The PR should not merge until these issues are addressed. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant TransportReader
participant transportReaderCallback
participant isDecoySynAck
participant ResultChannel
TransportReader->>transportReaderCallback: deliver SYN-ACK
transportReaderCallback->>isDecoySynAck: classify packet
isDecoySynAck-->>transportReaderCallback: decoy classification
transportReaderCallback->>ResultChannel: emit valid port result
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In `@pkg/runner/runner.go`:
- Around line 233-258: The decoy callback currently performs hostname resolution
and result delivery synchronously on the packet-capture path. In
pkg/runner/runner.go:233-258, change the OnDecoySynAck handling to enqueue
IP-and-port events and process them with a bounded worker that performs hostname
resolution and invokes options.OnDecoySynAck; in pkg/scan/scan_raw.go:981-994,
ensure delivery remains off TransportReadWorker and queue operations honor
cancellation.
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In `@pkg/runner/verify_test.go`:
- Line 55: Replace all three net.Listen calls in the test setup with
net.ListenConfig.Listen calls, preserving the existing TCP address arguments and
handling the required context/configuration consistently so the noctx linter is
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In `@pkg/scan/scan_raw.go`:
- Around line 976-987: Add an OnDecoySynAck callback to scan.Options and
ListenHandler, then invoke it from transportReaderCallback when
isDecoySynAck(tcp) identifies a decoy SYN-ACK, passing the available packet and
address context before continuing. Ensure the callback plumbing lets the runner
resolve the IP and schedule CONNECT verification while preserving the existing
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On-path SYN proxies answer scan probes with cookie-valid SYN-ACKs, so every probed port is recorded as open. Captured forgeries shared one shape: window 0 and a bare 20-byte header with no TCP options. Real stacks advertise a non-zero window and at least an MSS option.
isDecoySynAckdrops that exact combination after the cookie check and before the port is recorded. A win=0 reply that carries options, or a non-zero window with no options, is left untouched. Rejected packets are not surfaced; callers that need a second opinion already have-verify.ConnectVerificationno longer erasesconfidence.Lowhosts, so aPortThresholdcap remains visible to consumers after the handshake pass.