Wireshark 101: Downloading, Displaying, and the BPF Syntax! HakTip 117
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On this HakTip, Shannon Morse reviews options to download and display Wireshark windows, as well as the BPF Syntax.
We had a comment from our TH-cam page from a fan who said "How do I download WireShark in Linux?" While I'm simply using an executable install on my Windows PC, we also walked through a Linux installation previously on HakTip 64. I highly suggest installing the WinPCap software that is included with Wireshark (which lets Wireshark put your computer into promiscuous mode). By letting your network card sniff traffic in promiscuous mode, you can not only see the traffic coming to you, but also going to all sorts of targets on your network.
Let's take a closer look at the main windows of Wireshark this week. First up in the Packet List. This is the main window, color coded and listed by time the packet is captured. You'll see the number of the packets, the time, source, destination, protocol, length, and info. Most of these are pretty self explanatory. Next down is the Packet Details listing, with a bunch of info about a single packet. Furthermore, you can expand the details pane and click on different parts of the packet to view details about each segment of that one packet. Lastly is the Packet Bytes pane. This is where you'll see what the computer sees- the raw data flying from sender to receiver.
Now, you're probably wondering about the colors on the Packet List pane. These are for the different protocols. The color coding gives you an easy way to differentiate between all of the protocols, or you can also list the pane by Protocol. You can change these as well by going to View -- Coloring Rules and clicking edit.
For more fun with customizing your Wireshark display, lets dive deeper into time displays. Since time displays are extremely important when trying to analyze a network, we also have a bunch of options for viewing time stamps. You have the Time Reference option available under edit, but you also have the display options under view.
Under capture, we have the Interface list, and Interface options. One of the interesting things under Options is the ability to save your findings into multiple files depending on the size or time of the capture.
Under capture, is also an option for filters. These are all the filters I can use during a capture. These will filter just those specific packets, as opposed to just capturing everything on the network. These capturing filters can be useful if you are looking for specific traffic and don't want to deal with all the other packets.
Another thing you should probably know about is BPF Syntax. Under options there is a button called "compile selected bpf's". BPF stands for Berkeley Packet Filter syntax. This is the syntax that will apply the filters you choose for your capture. BPF is a syntax used by WinpCap, and is important because this is what's going to make the computer understand whatever filters you make, and how those filters are used in Wireshark. BPF filters are called expressions, and expressions have a bunch of different parts called primitives, which have a bunch of parts called qualifiers. We're going to wait until next week to break down what the heck I just said, but remember when we did Linux Terminal commands 101 and each command has a syntax that involved the command, an argument, and an option. These expressions are kind of the same.
Let me know what you think. Send me a comment below or email us at tips@hak5.org. And be sure to check out our sister show, Hak5 for more great stuff just like this. I'll be there, reminding you to trust your technolust.
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interesting video...
on this bpf you shown... you are looking for a specific packets to mac add b4:52:7e:62:6c:4d with the wlan probe request or response.
there is options window but with no options to save in multiple files? I installed wireshark yesterday only.
How do i know what infotmation do the packets contain
so the filter:
wlan.addr == b4:52:7e:62:6c:4d && wlan.fc.type_subtype == 0x04 || wlan.fc.type_subtype == 0x05
I believe we are filtering the packets received on the following:
the wlan protocol -> the MAC address of the client/phone is equal to b4:52:7e:62:6c:4d
AND
(the wlan protocol -> frame type is equal to 4, which represents a 'probe request'
OR
the wlan protocol -> frame type is equal to 5, which represents a 'probe response')
See Monsieur's response for what a probe request and response are
I'm pretty new to Wireshark so this is mostly a guess, but it appears to be watching communication between the phone you mentioned and a WAP. The WAP seems to be a YES MAN IN THE MIDDLE. The phone seems to be probing for multiple WAP SSIDs and the WAP is responding to each of them as if it is the requested WAP.
I love your hard work and contribution to the community. That being said I caught a couple of errors. At 9:29 what you are calling BPF syntax is actually display filter syntax. They are two different languages. You also don't quite describe the "Compile selected BPF" correctly. This function produces the bytecode output from the BPF filter language expression you place in the capture filter dialog box.
I sure wish I understood this as well as you do. I'm still a young neophyte.
It says that a program couldnt start something like ms
Is there an option in Wireshark to like assemble, or view the packet, or rather, what the packet is sending? For example, if I receive a packet (or packets) that Wireshark recognizes as a GIF or JPEG, is there a way to view that actual picture?
I would like to know myself for sure. Wireshark designed for packet capture, so you would think everything is there. Thing is, there are packets that you could think as _invisible_ that come as normal but wireshark will not pick them up, so this could be the case with pics. I have a feeling the *jpg* for example is broken down into raw binary aside from the rest of the packets related to that one picture. So you would have to have a specific program to re-assemble the packet in raw form to view it. That's basically what something like any pic viewer program does, but it has the complete file at that point all put-together if you want to think of it like that, so that makes it possible. If you are asking whether you can go into further detail about a packet (like on the bottom of wireshark) and click a block that opens the picture like you would on a url, I really think everything is broken down so far that this is not possible, but I could be wrong. Just my understanding on how this program works so far as I have explored.
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yeah that's pretty much what I was thinking. I figured you could possibly take the bits from the area of the packet that wireshark says is the Jpg (or whatever it may be) and do the thing where you can see the previous and next packet, and put all the raw bits in a hex editor or something and save it with the extension... Basically I was asking if there was a preview pane, or something, built in that could do that. I've got all the basics down in Wireshark. I've been capturing wireless in monitor mode for fun, and trying to figure out the airprobe gsm stuff with a hackrf, but I'm just now learning about the menu options, like the protocol hierarchy.. which, by the way, saved me a lot of time. Thanks Shannon!
Maverick0 Yep, it's pretty easy too.
First save your capture:
File -> Save
Then export the object from your capture:
File -> Export Objects -> (HTTP will get your browser session)
From here you can look at content type and export individual files in their original format, or just save all and then sort through what you find.
Hope that helps!
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Hi,can you tell me how to connect two hosts without using LAN (internet) ,only with 2 wireless adapters , with using linux terminal please ,Thank you.
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The filter you made is definitely filtering out only a specific wireless device by its MAC address
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I actually found this off of your website: hak5.org/episodes/haktip-23. It is in regards to probe requests and probe responses.
"A probe request is a special frame sent by a client station requesting information from either a specific access point, specified by SSID, or all access points in the area, specified with the broadcast SSID.
The information being requested in a probe includes the supported data rates, which are also included in the beacon frames typically broadcast from an access point."
I know these vids are for TOTAL beginners, but I still can't help cringing every time I see windows LOL
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