Revision as of 09:30, 21 December 2007

Network Forensics Packages and Appliances

Burst

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

Expensive IP geo-location 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 off-line 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.

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

tcpextract

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.

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

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