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A Network Forensics Tool - To visualize a Packet Capture offline as a Network Diagram including device identification, highlight important communication and file extraction

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PcapXray Design Specification

Goal:

Given a Pcap File, plot a network diagram displaying hosts in the network, network traffic, highlight important traffic and Tor traffic as well as potential malicious traffic including data involved in the communication.

Problem:

Solution: Speed up the investigation process

  • Make a network diagram with the following features from a Pcap file Tool Highlights:
  • Network Diagram – Summary Network Diagram of full network
  • Information:
    • Web Traffic with Server Details
    • Tor Traffic
    • Possible Malicious traffic
    • Data Obtained from Packet in Report – Device/Traffic/Payloads
    • Device Details

Tool Image:

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Components:

  • Network Diagram
  • Device/Traffic Details and Analysis
  • Malicious Traffic Identification
  • Tor Traffic
  • GUI – a gui with options to upload pcap file and display the network diagram

Future:

  • Structured and clean code flow
  • Change the database from JSON to sqlite or prominent database, due to memory hogging
  • Change fronend to web based such as Django
  • Make the application more stable
  • More protocol support
  • Clean up code

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Just for Security Fun!

Credits

  • Thanks for making it better,
    • Professor Marc Budofsky
    • Kevin Gallagher
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