In our prior article on companion tools for Wireshark (link), we provided a list of tools that network analysts, operations, maintainers or just curious people should consider. All these were stand alone tools.
What about Internet/Web Browser based sites that you may find useful?
This thought raises certain issues, like this scenario: the network is down and you are troubleshooting the outage…how do you get to a network site?
For that reason alone, we chose to make this article separate as it assumes you have network connectivity!
- PacketTotal – www.packettotal.com https://lab.dynamite.ai – like an online version of Zeek
- A-Packets – https://apackets.com – Online pcap file analyzer
- Packetor – https://packetor.com – Packetor is an online hex-dump packet analyzer / decoder. It accepts strings of hexadecimal digits as input. Spaces / Newlines are ignored. Just place your packet dump in the box above and hit ‘Decode Packet’
- TLS/QUIC Illustrated
- CyberChef – https://cyberchef.org – CyberChef encourages both technical and non-technical people to explore data formats, encryption and compression. Why. Digital data comes in all shapes, sizes and formats in the modern world – CyberChef helps to make sense of this data all on one easy-to-use platform. Place something in the input, create a recipe and watch the output.
- tcpdump101.com build bfp filters for tcpdump
I am sure there are others, so please let me know what I am missing!
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