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Wireshark tricks โ€‹

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Tutorials โ€‹

The following tutorials are amazing to learn some cool basic tricks:

Analysed Information โ€‹

Expert Information

Clicking on Analyze --> Expert Information you will have an overview of what is happening in the packets analyzed:

Resolved Addresses

Under Statistics --> Resolved Addresses you can find several information that was "resolved" by wireshark like port/transport to protocol, MAC to the manufacturer, etc. It is interesting to know what is implicated in the communication.

Protocol Hierarchy

Under Statistics --> Protocol Hierarchy you can find the protocols involved in the communication and data about them.

Conversations

Under Statistics --> Conversations you can find a summary of the conversations in the communication and data about them.

Endpoints

Under Statistics --> Endpoints you can find a summary of the endpoints in the communication and data about each of them.

DNS info

Under Statistics --> DNS you can find statistics about the DNS request captured.

I/O Graph

Under Statistics --> I/O Graph you can find a graph of the communication.

Filters โ€‹

Here you can find wireshark filter depending on the protocol: https://www.wireshark.org/docs/dfref/
Other interesting filters:

  • (http.request or ssl.handshake.type == 1) and !(udp.port eq 1900)
    • HTTP and initial HTTPS traffic
  • (http.request or ssl.handshake.type == 1 or tcp.flags eq 0x0002) and !(udp.port eq 1900)
    • HTTP and initial HTTPS traffic + TCP SYN
  • (http.request or ssl.handshake.type == 1 or tcp.flags eq 0x0002 or dns) and !(udp.port eq 1900)
    • HTTP and initial HTTPS traffic + TCP SYN + DNS requests

If you want to search for content inside the packets of the sessions press CTRL+f. You can add new layers to the main information bar (No., Time, Source, etc.) by pressing the right button and then the edit column.

Free pcap labs โ€‹

Practice with the free challenges of: https://www.malware-traffic-analysis.net/

Identifying Domains โ€‹

You can add a column that shows the Host HTTP header:

And a column that add the Server name from an initiating HTTPS connection (ssl.handshake.type == 1):

Identifying local hostnames โ€‹

From DHCP โ€‹

In current Wireshark instead of bootp you need to search for DHCP

From NBNS โ€‹

Decrypting TLS โ€‹

Decrypting https traffic with server private key โ€‹

edit>preference>protocol>ssl>

Press Edit and add all the data of the server and the private key (IP, Port, Protocol, Key file and password)

Decrypting https traffic with symmetric session keys โ€‹

Both Firefox and Chrome have the capability to log TLS session keys, which can be used with Wireshark to decrypt TLS traffic. This allows for in-depth analysis of secure communications. More details on how to perform this decryption can be found in a guide at Red Flag Security.

To detect this search inside the environment for to variable SSLKEYLOGFILE

A file of shared keys will look like this:

To import this in wireshark go to _edit > preference > protocol > ssl > and import it in (Pre)-Master-Secret log filename:

ADB communication โ€‹

Extract an APK from an ADB communication where the APK was sent:

python
from scapy.all import *

pcap = rdpcap("final2.pcapng")

def rm_data(data):
    splitted = data.split(b"DATA")
    if len(splitted) == 1:
        return data
    else:
        return splitted[0]+splitted[1][4:]

all_bytes = b""
for pkt in pcap:
    if Raw in pkt:
        a = pkt[Raw]
        if b"WRTE" == bytes(a)[:4]:
            all_bytes += rm_data(bytes(a)[24:])
        else:
            all_bytes += rm_data(bytes(a))
print(all_bytes)

f = open('all_bytes.data', 'w+b')
f.write(all_bytes)
f.close()

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