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Learning Network Forensics

You're reading from   Learning Network Forensics Identify and safeguard your network against both internal and external threats, hackers, and malware attacks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
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ISBN-13 9781782174905
Length 274 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Samir Datt Samir Datt
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Becoming Network 007s FREE CHAPTER 2. Laying Hands on the Evidence 3. Capturing & Analyzing Data Packets 4. Going Wireless 5. Tracking an Intruder on the Network 6. Connecting the Dots – Event Logs 7. Proxies, Firewalls, and Routers 8. Smuggling Forbidden Protocols – Network Tunneling 9. Investigating Malware – Cyber Weapons of the Internet 10. Closing the Deal – Solving the Case Index

Collecting network traffic using Wireshark

While tcpdump is a cool tool to capture network traffic, Wireshark is widely used when it comes to network forensic investigations. In this section, we will focus on installing and using Wireshark to capture network traffic.

Wireshark is available for most of the OS, including Windows, Mac OS, and most flavors of Linux.

It is available for free download at https://www.wireshark.org/download.html.

Using Wireshark

Install Wireshark using the Ubuntu Software Center, as shown in the following screenshot:

Using Wireshark

Run Wireshark with network privileges either directly or using the terminal to start capturing packets, as shown in the following screenshot:

Using Wireshark

Configure according to network topology and other specific details using the Capture Options, as shown in the following screenshot:

Using Wireshark

To get started, all we need to do is select an interface to start capturing packets from. Let's select eth0, as follows:

Using Wireshark

When we select an interface to start capturing packets (eth0...

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