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Is this an attack?

From: "Kelly Robinson" <caliana1989 () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:00:23 +1000

In the Control Field of a TCP segment I noticed the following values:

URG 0
ACK 0
PSH 0
RST 0
SYN 1
FIN 1

I assume the checksum is OK, is this an attack packet? If not, why not? If
so, what is the attacker probably trying to achieve?

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