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Mastering Python Forensics
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Mastering Python Forensics

by Michael Spreitzenbarth, Johann Uhrmann
October 2015
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
4h 15m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using Scapy during an investigation

Another great Python-based tool to analyze and manipulate the network traffic is Scapy. According to the developer website, http://www.secdev.org/projects/scapy/:

"Scapy is a powerful interactive packet manipulation program. It is able to forge or decode packets of a wide number of protocols, send them on the wire, capture them, match requests and replies, and much more."

Scapy differs from the standard tools (and also from Dshell) by providing an investigator with the ability to write small Python scripts that can manipulate or analyze the network traffic—either in a recorded form or in real-time. Furthermore, Scapy has the ability to perform deep packet dissection, passive OS fingerprinting, or plotting via ...

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