Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP) Amplification DDos Attack

Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP) is used for discovery of Plug & Play (UPnP) devices. The protocol is vulnerable to reflection-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, successful attempt will cause denial of service condition as large response messages could cause the service to consume server resources. References: https://blog.sucuri.net/2014/09/quick-analysis-of-a-ddos-attack-using-ssdp.html