Advent of Cyber 2024: tryhackme.com/r/christmas
Welcome to the final day, Day 24, of TryHackMe's Advent of Cyber 2024, where we explore the MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) protocol, learn how to analyze its traffic using Wireshark, and venture into reverse engineering a simple network protocol. Join me for this culmination of our cybersecurity journey, focusing on IoT and network protocol security.
What You'll Learn:
👾 MQTT Protocol Basics: Understand what MQTT is, how it's used for lightweight, publish-subscribe communication in IoT devices, and its structure.
👾 Analyzing MQTT Traffic with Wireshark: Gain practical skills in using Wireshark to capture and dissect MQTT messages, identifying key components like topics, payloads, and QoS levels.
👾 Reverse Engineering a Simple Network Protocol: Learn the basics of reverse engineering by dissecting a simple protocol, understanding its commands, data formats, and how to interpret what's being communicated.
This challenge involves analyzing MQTT communications to uncover how devices communicate, and then moving into a basic protocol reverse engineering task, highlighting the importance of understanding network protocols for security.
Tasks Covered:
🎯 Exploring the MQTT protocol's architecture and application.
🎯 Using Wireshark for detailed MQTT traffic analysis.
🎯 Applying reverse engineering techniques to understand a network protocol's function.
Perfect for those interested in IoT security, network analysts, or anyone looking to expand their skills in network protocol security and analysis.
Join me as we wrap up our Advent of Cyber journey with a deep dive into MQTT and network protocol analysis, equipping you with knowledge crucial for securing and understanding IoT communications.