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Wireshark: Quick tips

Jesus Castello — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 14:37:05 +0000

Do you want to learn some new tricks to make your Wireshark experience better? You have come to the right place, let’s get going! Protocol statistics + Apply as filter To get a sense of the kind of traffic you have on a packet capture session you can use the protocol statistics window. To open […]

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Network forensics with tshark

Jesus Castello — Sun, 15 Sep 2013 12:18:18 +0000

Let’s say we have a packet capture file (.pcap) and we want to get as much information out of it as possible. One option could be wireshark and its command line version tshark. Using the latter we will be able to manipulate and format the output using tools like sed, grep, awk… Extracting host names with […]

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Wireshark: Auto-start capturing

Jesus Castello — Wed, 23 May 2012 18:21:09 +0000

Most of the time when you open wireshark you will want to start capturing right away. You can pass some flags to wireshark so it starts capturing as soon as it opens. The option for this is -k but you also need to choose and interface to capture from, in Linux you can see your interfaces […]

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Four ways to extract files from pcaps

Jesus Castello — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:38:14 +0000

It’s time to extract files from pcaps. If you ever played with packet captures you probably thought it would be cool that you could actually get downloaded files so let’s see not only one way to do this, but four! 1. Wireshark: http export You can find this at File > Export > Objects > […]

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