Re: analysing captured packets

From: Stevo (stevodestructo@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Mar 31 2006 - 18:14:14 EST


On 3/31/06, Robin Wood <dninja@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> Can anyone give any pointers to good tutorials on how to go about
> analysing network traffic captured during a pen-test.
>
> I'm currently using ethereal but I'm not necessarily looking for an
> ethereal tutorial more a howto on what to look for in capture files.
> Things like good protocols to spot (e.g. ftp logs in in plaintext so
> you can grab login details), how to recognise what is going on by
> watching the high level handshakes (e.g. a http get is usually
> followed by a response containing html), things like that.
>
> Thanks
>
> Robin

http://chaosreader.sourceforge.net/

That's a good place to start, I've used it before, and it works well.

~ stevo

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