BruteShark is a Network Forensic Analysis Tool (NFAT) that performs deep processing and inspection of network traffic (mainly PCAP files). It includes: password extracting, building a network map, reconstruct TCP sessions, extract hashes of encrypted passwords and even convert them to a Hashcat format in order to perform an offline Brute Force attack.
The main goal of the project is to provide solution to security researchers and network administrators with the task of network traffic analysis while they try to identify weaknesses that can be used by a potential attacker to gain access to critical points on the network.
Two BruteShark versions are available, A GUI based application (Windows) and a Command Line Interface tool (Windows and Linux).
The various projects in the solution can also be used independently as infrastructure for analyzing network traffic on Linux or Windows machines. For further details see the Architecture section.
The project was developed in my spare time to address two main passions of mine: software architecture and analyzing network data.
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- Extracting and encoding usernames and passwords (HTTP, FTP, Telnet, IMAP, SMTP...)
- Extract authentication hashes and crack them using Hashcat (Kerberos, NTLM, CRAM-MD5, HTTP-Digest...)
- Build visual network diagram (Network nodes & users)
- Reconstruct all TCP & UDP Sessions
- File Carving
- Prerequisites:
- WinPcap / Npcap driver (Wireshark installs one of this by default)
- .NET Core SDK
- Download Windows Installer (64 Bit).
- Prerequisites: libpcap driver
- Download BruteSharkCli and just run it:
# Create a symbolyc link between libpcap.so and the actual libpcap file (e.g. libpcap.so.0.8) # That needed due to a known issue in SharpPcap (https://github.com/chmorgan/sharppcap/issues/167) find /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -type f | grep libpcap | head -1 | xargs -i sudo ln -s {} /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcap.so wget https://github.com/odedshimon/BruteShark/releases/latest/download/BruteSharkCli ./BruteSharkCli
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In general, it is recommended to use the example PCAP files folder, load, run and explore the results.
BruteShark is a modular tool, designed for expansion.
This module is responsible for extracting and encoding usernames and passwords as well as authentication hashes. In fact this module is responsible for updating two display tables, passwords table and hashes table. While usernames and passwords are straight forward to use, hashes most often used in more complex attacks like pass-the-hash or by brute-forcing them to get the password. BruteShark is integrated with Hashcat so all the hashes extracted can be converted to a Hashcat input file.
Protocol | Hash Type | Hascat Mode (-m) |
---|---|---|
HTTP | HTTP-Digest | 11400 |
SMTP\IMAP | CRAM-MD5 | 16400 |
NTLM (e.g. SMB) | NTLMv1 | 5500 |
NTLM (e.g. SMB) | NTLMv2 | 5600 |
Kerberos | AS-REQ etype 23 | 7500 |
Kerberos | TGS-REP etype 23 | 13100 |
Kerberos | AS-REP etype 23 | 18200 |
This module is responsible for building the network map by identifying components in the network and the connections between them. The network map can be exported to JSON format for analysis with external tools such as Neo4j.
This module tries to extract files from UDP / TCP sessions (Therefore, note that in order for this module to be effective, the "Build TCP Sessions" / "Build UDP Sessions" should be turn on). Currently this module supports classic forensics techniques of file carving by "Header-Footer" algorithm which is effective for files with known file header and footer like JPG, PNG, PDF.
The GUI is pretty self-explanatory, just load the wanted files, configure the wanted modules and press the run button.
Keyword | Description |
---|---|
help | Print help menu |
exit | Exit CLI |
add-file | Add file to analyze. Usage: add-file FILE-PATH |
start | Start analyzing |
show-passwords | Print passwords. |
show-modules | Print modules. |
show-hashes | Print Hashes |
show-networkmap | Prints the network map as a json string. Usage: show-networkmap |
export-hashes | Export all Hashes to Hascat format input files. Usage: export-hashes OUTPUT-DIRECTORY |
export-networkmap | Export network map to a json file for neo4j. Usage: export-networkmap OUTPUT-FILE |
All BruteShark projects are implemented using .Net Core
and .Net Standard
for modern and cross platform support.
The solution is designed with three layer architecture, including a one or more projects at each layer - DAL, BLL and PL.
The separation between layers is created by the fact that each project refers only its own objects.
As the Data Access Layer, this project is responsible for reading raw PCAP files using appropriate drivers (WinPcap, libpcap) and the amazing wrapper library SharpPcap by Chris Morgan. Can analyze a list of files at once, and provides additional features like reconstruction of all TCP Sessions (using the awesome project TcpRecon).
The Business Logic Layer, responsible for analyzing network information (packet, TCP Session etc.), implements a pluggable mechanism. Each plugin is basically a class that implements the interface IModule. All plugins are loaded using reflection:
private void _initilyzeModulesList()
{
// Create an instance for any available modules by looking for every class that
// implements IModule.
this._modules = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies()
.SelectMany(s => s.GetTypes())
.Where(p => typeof(IModule).IsAssignableFrom(p) && !p.IsInterface)
.Select(t => (IModule)Activator.CreateInstance(t))
.ToList();
// Register to each module event.
foreach(var m in _modules)
{
m.ParsedItemDetected += (s, e) => this.ParsedItemDetected(s, e);
}
}
Desktop application for Windows based on WinForms. Uses a cross-cutting project by the meaning it referrers both the DAL and BLL layers. This is done by composing each of the layers, register to their events, when event is triggered, cast the event object to the next layer equivalent object, and send it to next layer.
public MainForm()
{
InitializeComponent();
_files = new HashSet<string>();
// Create the DAL and BLL objects.
_processor = new PcapProcessor.Processor();
_analyzer = new PcapAnalyzer.Analyzer();
_processor.BuildTcpSessions = true;
// Create the user controls.
_networkMapUserControl = new NetworkMapUserControl();
_networkMapUserControl.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
_sessionsExplorerUserControl = new SessionsExplorerUserControl();
_sessionsExplorerUserControl.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
_hashesUserControl = new HashesUserControl();
_hashesUserControl.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
_passwordsUserControl = new GenericTableUserControl();
_passwordsUserControl.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
// Contract the events.
_processor.TcpPacketArived += (s, e) => _analyzer.Analyze(Casting.CastProcessorTcpPacketToAnalyzerTcpPacket(e.Packet));
_processor.TcpSessionArived += (s, e) => _analyzer.Analyze(Casting.CastProcessorTcpSessionToAnalyzerTcpSession(e.TcpSession));
_processor.FileProcessingStarted += (s, e) => SwitchToMainThreadContext(() => OnFileProcessStart(s, e));
_processor.FileProcessingEnded += (s, e) => SwitchToMainThreadContext(() => OnFileProcessEnd(s, e));
_processor.ProcessingPrecentsChanged += (s, e) => SwitchToMainThreadContext(() => OnProcessingPrecentsChanged(s, e));
_analyzer.ParsedItemDetected += (s, e) => SwitchToMainThreadContext(() => OnParsedItemDetected(s, e));
_processor.TcpSessionArived += (s, e) => SwitchToMainThreadContext(() => OnSessionArived(Casting.CastProcessorTcpSessionToBruteSharkDesktopTcpSession(e.TcpSession)));
_processor.ProcessingFinished += (s, e) => SwitchToMainThreadContext(() => OnProcessingFinished(s, e));
InitilizeFilesIconsList();
this.modulesTreeView.ExpandAll();
}
First off, thanks for taking the time to contribute! BruteShark welcomes contributions from everyone.
When contributing to this repository, please first discuss the change you wish to make via issue or an email before making a change.
- Implemening new features from BruteShark Issues, look for "good first isuue" and "help wanted" labels.
- Uploading example PCAP files, especially files, with interesting content.
- Proposing new features by Creating an Issue.
- Reporting a bug by Creating an Issue.
- Discussing the current state of the code.
- Creating videos and example tutorials of using BruteShark.