Saturday, 21 January 2012

Packet Sniffer tools

Some useful Packet Sniffing tools the we need in everyday working environment

tcpdump   --------> a command-line packet sniffer

ettercap  ---------> we can see password as a plain test Ettercap is a suite for man in the middle attacks on LAN. It features sniffing of live connections, content filtering on the fly and many other interesting tricks.

tshark     ---------> a network protocol analyzer.

tcpshow    -------> tcpdump-based analysis

Wireshark ------> Packet sniffer GUI

NetStumbler ---------> Netstumbler is the best known Windows tool for finding open wireless access points ("wardriving"). They also distribute a WinCE version for PDAs and such named MiniStumbler. The tool is currently free but Windows-only and no source code is provided.

 Ntop ------> Ntop shows network usage in a way similar to what top does for processes. In interactive mode, it displays the network status on the user's terminal. In Web mode, it acts as a Web server, creating an HTML dump of the network status.

NetworkMiner ----------> NetworkMiner is a Network Forensic Analysis Tool for Windows. NetworkMiner can be used as a passive network sniffer/packet capturing tool in order to detect operating systems, sessions, hostnames, open ports etc. without putting any traffic on the network.

P0f -----------> P0f is able to identify the operating system of a target host simply by examining captured packets even when the device in question is behind an overzealous packet firewall.

Ethereal ------> Ethereal is a free network protocol analyzer for Unix and Windows.

Snort ------> Snort is an open source network intrusion detection system, capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks.

Netcat ------> Netcat has been dubbed the network swiss army knife. It is a simple Unix utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using TCP or UDP protocol

tcptrace ------> analyzes the dump file format generated by TCPdump and other applications

hping ------> Hping is a command-line oriented TCP/IP packet assembler/analyzer, kind of like the “ping” program

dsniff ------> DNSiff is a collection of tools for network auditing and penetration testing. dsniff, filesnarf, mailsnarf, msgsnarf, urlsnarf, and webspy passively monitor a network for interesting data

Nikto ------> Nikto is an Open Source (GPL) web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items

John the Ripper ------> ohn the Ripper is a fast password cracker,

Tripwire ------> Tripwire is a tool that can be used for data and program integrity assurance

Kismet ------> Kismet is an 802.11 wireless network sniffer - this is different from a normal network sniffer (such as Ethereal or tcpdump) because it separates and identifies different wireless networks in the area
  
saint ----------> network vulnerability assessment scanner detects vulnerabilities in your network’s security before they can be exploited.

Nessus --------->  vulnerability scanner.



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