Packet Captures

Various Pcap files for studies are as follows:

=PCAP files= Common packet captures files used across the site and for studies are below:

Misc Captures
=Filtering Packets= Information related to Packet filtering is as follows:

Filtering a Cap File
dumpcap -i eth0 -f "host 208.67.220.220 and udp port 53" -w /tmp/dns.cap -b duration:3600 -b files:25

Wireshark Common Filters
Sets a filter for any packet with 10.0.0.1, as either the source or dest ip.addr == 10.0.0.1

Sets a conversation filter between the two defined IP addresses: ip.addr==10.0.0.1 && ip.addr==10.0.0.2

Sets a filter to display all http and dns: http or dns

Sets a filter for any TCP packet with 4000 as a source or dest port: tcp.port==4000

Displays all TCP resets: tcp.flags.reset==1

Displays all HTTP GET requests: http.request

Displays all TCP packets that contain the word ‘traffic’. Excellent when searching on a specific string or user ID: tcp contains traffic

Masks out arp, icmp, dns, or whatever other protocols may be background noise. Allowing you to focus on the traffic of interest: !(arp or icmp or dns)

Sets a filter for the HEX values of 0x33 0x27 0x58 at any offset: udp contains 33:27:58

Displays all retransmissions in the trace. Helps when tracking down slow application performance and packet loss: tcp.analysis.retransmission

Fragmented Traffic: ip.flags.mf == 1 or ip.frag_offset > 0

ICMP Fragmentation needed packets: icmp.type==3 and icmp.code==4

Combination of above two: ip[0,9,20:2]==4501:0304||ip[6:2]&3fff

Starting and Ending sessions: tcp.flags&7 or (tcp.seq==1 and tcp.ack==1 and !tcp.window_size_scalefactor==-1 and tcp.len==0)

Wireshark Column Filters
TTL            ip.ttl Flags          tcp.flags SEQ            tcp.seq ACK            tcp.ack MSS            tcp.options.mss_val In-Flight      tcp.analysis.bytes_in_flight Payload        tcp.len Window         tcp.window_size Content-Length http.content_length_header

TCPDump Filters
Source: [thegeekstuff.com]

tcpdump -s 0 -w packet_capture.cap
 * General TCPDump command:

tcpdump -i eth1
 * Capture packets from a particular interface

tcpdump -c 200 -i eth0
 * Capture only N number of packets

tcpdump -A -i eth0
 * Display Captured Packets in ASCII

tcpdump -XX -i eth0
 * Display Captured Packets in HEX and ASCII

tcpdump -w 08232010.pcap -i eth0
 * Capture the packets and write into a file

tcpdump -n -i eth0
 * Capture packets with IP address without DNS resolution

tcpdump -tttt -r data.pcap
 * Reading the packets from a saved file

tcpdump -n -tttt -i eth0
 * Capture packets with proper readable timestamp

tcpdump -w capture.pcap greater 1024 tcpdump -w capture.pcap less 1024
 * Read packets only longer or smaller than N bytes

tcpdump -i eth0 arp
 * Receive only the packets of a specific protocol type

tcpdump -i eth0 port 22
 * Receive packets flows on a particular port

tcpdump -w xpackets.pcap -i eth0 dst 10.181.140.216 and port 22
 * Capture packets for particular destination IP and Port

tcpdump udp and \(host and host \) tcpdump -w comm.pcap -i eth0 udp and \(host 172.20.68.176 and host 172.24.173.9\)
 * Capture TCP communication packets between two hosts

tcpdump -i eth0 not arp and not rarp “and”, “or” and “not” condition are used to filter the packets
 * Filter Packets – Capture all the packets other than arp and rarp

TCPDump Parameters
! or not && or and
 * Modifiers
 * or or

udp dst port not 53		UDP not bound for port 53 host 10.0.0.1 && host 10.0.0.2	Traffic between these hosts tcp dst port 80 or 8080		Packets to either TCP port
 * Examples

arp			ether icmp			ip ip6			ppp rarp			tcp udp			wlan
 * Protocols

tcp-urg			tcp-rst tcp-ack			tcp-syn tcp-psh			tcp-fin
 * TCP Flags

[src|dst] host 				Matches a host as the IP source, destination, or either ether [src|dst] host 			Matches a host as the Ethernet source, destination, or either gateway host 				Matches packets which used host as a gateway [src|dst] net / 			Matches packets to or from an endpoint residing in network [tcp|udp] [src|dst] port 		Matches TCP or UDP packets sent to/from port [tcp|udp] [src|dst] portrange - 	Matches TCP or UDP packets to/from a port in the given range less 					Matches packets less than or equal to length greater 				Matches packets greater than or equal to length (ether|ip|ip6) proto 		Matches an Ethernet, IPv4, or IPv6 protocol (ether|ip) broadcast 				Matches Ethernet or IPv4 broadcasts (ether|ip|ip6) multicast 			Matches Ethernet, IPv4, or IPv6 multicasts type (mgt|ctl|data) [subtype ] 	Matches 802.11 frames based on type and optional subtype vlan [ ] 					Matches 802.1Q frames, optionally with a VLAN ID of vlan mpls [ ] 					Matches MPLS packets, optionally with a label of label Matches packets by an arbitrary expression
 * Capture Filter Primitives

-A 		Print frame payload in ASCII -c 	Exit after capturing count packets -D 		List available interfaces -e 		Print link-level headers -F 	Use file as the filter expression -G  		Rotate the dump file every n seconds -i 	Specifies the capture interface -K 		Don't verify TCP checksums -L 		List data link types for the interface -n 		Don't convert addresses to names -p 		Don't capture in promiscuous mode -q 		Quick output -r 	Read packets from file -s 	Capture up to len bytes per packet -S 		Print absolute TCP sequence numbers -t 		Don't print timestamps -v[v[v]] 	Print more verbose output -w 	Write captured packets to file -x 		Print frame payload in hex -X 		Print frame payload in hex and ASCII -y 	Specify the data link type
 * Command Line Options

= Misc =


 * In IE, disable HTTP1.1 in Advanced options to see the traffic being sent in HTTP1.0 version. Now you will be able to see traffic in Clear text in wireshark captures. HTTP1.1 uses gzip to compress html, so it is not read in clear text. You will find multiple connections for a single webpage.


 * In Wireshark, anyting you see in square brackets - [bla bla] is the wireshar analysis of the information & is not the part of the packet captured.