Tactical Wireshark: A Deep Dive into Intrusion Analysis, Malware Incidents, and Extraction of Forensic Evidence

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K. CardwellTactical Wiresharkhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9291-4_7

7. Scripting and Interacting with Wireshark

Kevin Cardwell¹  

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California, CA, USA

 

In this chapter, we will look at methods of how we can use scripts to interact with the Wireshark tool. There are multiple different scripts that can be used, and we will cover a few here.

Lua Scripting

The first scripting language we will review is Lua. Before we get into how we can integrate this with Wireshark, we will explore more information about the Lua scripting language.

Lua – A powerful scripting language that can be used to support a variety of different functions and features which can make our ...