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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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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

Packet sniffing and analysis using NetworkMiner

NetworkMiner is a passive network sniffing or network forensic tool. It is called a passive tool as it does not send out requests—it sits silently on the network, capturing every packet in the promiscuous mode.

NetworkMiner is host-centric. This means that it will classify data based on hosts rather than packets, which is what most sniffers such as Wireshark do.

The different steps to NetworkMiner usage are as follows:

  1. Download and install the NetworkMiner.
  2. Then, configure it.
  3. Capture the data in NetworkMiner.
  4. Finally, analyze the data.

NetworkMiner is available for download at SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/networkminer/.

Though NetworkMiner is not as well known as it should be, it's host-centric approach is refreshingly different and effective. Allowing the users to classify traffic based on the IP addresses and not packets helps us to zero in on activities related to the specific computers that are under suspicion or...

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