Revision as of 03:06, 27 March 2009

Network Forensics Packages and Appliances

E-Detective

http://www.edecision4u.com/

http://www.digi-forensics.com/home.html

Burst

http://www.burstmedia.com/release/advertisers/geo_faq.htm

Expensive IP geolocation service.

chkrootkit

http://www.chkrootkit.org

cryptcat

http://farm9.org/Cryptcat/

Enterasys Dragon

http://www.enterasys.com/products/advanced-security-apps/index.aspx

Instrusion Detection System, includes session reconstruction.

MaxMind

http://www.maxmind.com

IP geolocation services and data provider for offline geotagging. Free GeoLite country database. Programmable APIs.

netcat

http://netcat.sourceforge.net/

netflow/flowtools

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/732/Tech/nmp/netflow/index.shtml

http://www.splintered.net/sw/flow-tools/

http://silktools.sourceforge.net/

http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/293 Netflow Appliance (VMWare)

NetIntercept

http://www.sandstorm.net/products/netintercept

NetIntercept captures whole packets and reassembles up to 999,999 TCP connections at once, reconstructing files that were sent over your network and creating a database of its findings. It recognizes over 100 types of network protocols and file types, including web traffic, multimedia, email, and IM.

NetworkMiner

http://networkminer.wiki.sourceforge.net/NetworkMiner

NetworkMiner is a Network Forensic Analysis Tool (NFAT) for Windows. NetworkMiner can be used as a passive network sniffer/packet capturing tool or to parse PCAP files for off-line analysis.

rkhunter

http://rkhunter.sourceforge.net/

ngrep

http://ngrep.sourceforge.net/

nslookup

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nslookup

Name Server Lookup command line tool used to find IP address from domain name.

Sguil

http://sguil.sourceforge.net/

Snort

http://www.snort.org/

ssldump

http://ssldump.sourceforge.net/

tcpdump

http://www.tcpdump.org

tcpxtract

http://tcpxtract.sourceforge.net/

tcpflow

http://www.circlemud.org/~jelson/software/tcpflow/

truewitness

http://www.nature-soft.com/forensic.html

Linux/open-source. Based in India.

etherpeek

http://www.wildpackets.com/products/etherpeek/overview

Whois

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHOIS Web service and command line tool to look up registry information for internet domain.

http://www.arin.net/registration/agreements/bulkwhois.pdf Bulk WHOIS data request from ARIN

IP Regional Registries

http://www.arin.net/community/rirs.html

http://www.arin.net/index.shtml American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)

http://www.afrinic.net/ African Network Information Center (AfriNIC)

http://www.apnic.net/ Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC)

http://www.lacnic.net/en/ Latin American and Caribbean IP Address Regional Registry (LACNIC)

http://www.ripe.net/ RIPE Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC)

Wireshark / Ethereal

http://www.wireshark.org/

Open Source protocol analyzer previously known as ethereal.

Kismet

http://www.kismetwireless.net/

Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system.

Xplico

http://www.xplico.org/

Open Source Network Forensic Analysis Tool (NFAT). Protocols supported: HTTP, SIP, FTP, IMAP, POP, SMTP, TCP, UDP, IPv4, IPv6, ...

Command-line tools

arp - view the contents of your ARP cache

ifconfig - view your mac and IP address

ping - send packets to probe remote machines

tcpdump - capture packets

snoop - captures packets from the network and displays their contents (Solaris)

nemesis - create arbitrary packets

tcpreplay - replay captured packets

traceroute - view a network path

gnetcast - GNU rewrite of netcat

packit - packet generator

nmap - utility for network exploration and security auditing

Xplico Open Source Network Forensic Analysis Tool (NFAT)

ARP and Ethernet MAC Tools

arping - transmit ARP traffic

arpdig - probe LAN for MAC addresses

arpwatch - watch ARP changes

arp-sk - perform denial of service attacks

macof - CAM table attacks

ettercap - performs various low-level Ethernet network attacks

CISCO Discovery Protocol Tools

cdpd - transmit and receive CDP announcements; provides forgery capabilities

ICMP Layer Tests and Attacks

icmp-reset

icmp-quench

icmp-mtu

ish - ICMP shell (like SSH, but uses ICMP)

isnprober

IP Layer Tests

iperf - IP multicast test

fragtest - IP fragment reassembly test

UDP Layer Tests

udpcast - includes UDP-receiver and UDP-sender

TCP Layer

lft http://pwhois.org/lft - TCP tracing

etrace http://www.bindshell.net/tools/etrace

firewalk http://www.packetfactory.net