Wireshark Cheat Sheet

Wireshark Cheat Sheet

Wireshark is a network or protocol analyzer (also known as a network sniffer) available for free at the Wireshark website. It is used to analyze the structure of different network protocols and has the ability to demonstrate encapsulation. The analyzer operates on Unix, Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems, and employs the GTK+ widget toolkit and pcap for packet capturing. Wireshark and other terminal-based free software versions like Tshark are released under the GNU General Public License.

Wireshark Capturing Modes:

Promiscuous modeSets interface to capture all packets on a network segment to which it is associated to

Monitor mode:setup the Wireless interface to capture all traffic it can receive (Unix/Linux only)

Filter Types

Capture filter: Filter packets during capture
Display Filter: Hide Packets from a capture display
Protocols - Values: ether, fddi, ip, arp, rarp, decnet, lat, sca, moprc, mopdl, tcp and udp

Filtering packets (Display Filters)

Filtering packets (Display Filters)
Operator Description Example
eq or == Equal ip.dest == 192.168.1.1
ne or != Not Equal ip.dest != 192.168.1.1
gt or > Greater than frame.len > 10
lt or < Less than frame.len <10
ge or >= Greater than or Equal frame.len >= 10
le or <= Less than or Equal frame.len<=10

Logical Operators

and or && Logical AND All the conditions should match
or or || Logical OR Either all or one of the condition should match
xor or ^^ Logical XOR exclusive alternation –

 Only one of the two conditions should match not both
not or ! NOT(Negation) Not equal to
[n] […] Substring operator Filter a specific word or text

Common Filtering commands

Usage Filter syntax
Wireshark Filter by IP ip.addr == 10.10.50.1
Filter by Destination IP ip.dest == 10.10.50.1
Filter by Source IP ip.src == 10.10.50.1
Filter by IP range ip.addr >= 10.10.50.1 and ip.addr <= 10.10.50.100
Filter by Multiple Ips ip.addr == 10.10.50.1 and ip.addr == 10.10.50.100
Filter out IP address !(ip.addr == 10.10.50.1)
Filter subnet ip.addr == 10.10.50.1/24
Filter by port tcp.port == 25
Filter by destination port tcp.dstport == 23
Filter by ip address and port ip.addr == 10.10.50.1 and Tcp.port == 25
Filter by URL http.host == “host name”
Filter by time stamp frame.time >= “July 22, 2019 18:04:00”
Filter SYN flag tcp.flags.syn == 1
Host name filter ip.host = hostname
MAC address filter eth.addr == 00:70:f4:23:18:c4

and some Useful cheat:








overview :

some important filters 

  • Filter by IP address: displays all traffic from IP, be it source or destination

                     ip.addr == 192.168.1.1

  • Filter by source address: display traffic only from IP source
                      ip.src == 192.168.0.1

  • Filter by destination: display traffic only form IP destination
                     ip.dst == 192.168.0.1

  • Filter by IP subnet: display traffic from subnet, be it source or destination
                    ip.addr = 192.168.0.1/24

  • Exclude IP address: remove traffic from and to IP address
                    !ip.addr ==192.168.0.1

  • Display traffic between two specific subnet
                    ip.addr == 192.168.0.1/24 and ip.addr == 192.168.1.1/24

  • Display traffic between two specific workstations
                    ip.addr == 192.168.0.1 and ip.addr == 192.168.0.2

  • Filter by MAC
                   eth.addr = 00:50:7f:c5:b6:78

  • Filter TCP port
                   tcp.port == 80

  • Filter TCP port source
                   tcp.srcport == 80

  • Filter TCP port destination
                   tcp.dstport == 80

  • Find user agents
                  http.user_agent contains Firefox
                  !http.user_agent contains || !http.user_agent contains Chrome

  1. Filter broadcast traffic
                 !(arp or icmp or dns)

  • Filter IP address and port
                 tcp.port == 80 && ip.addr == 192.168.0.1

  • Filter all http get requests
                 http.request

  • Filter all http get requests and responses
                 http.request or http.response

  • Filter three way handshake
               tcp.flags.syn==1 or (tcp.seq==1 and tcp.ack==1 and tcp.len==0 
               and tcp.analysis.initial_rtt)

  • Find files by type
              frame contains “(attachment|tar|exe|zip|pdf)”

  • Find traffic based on keyword
               tcp contains facebook
               frame contains facebook

  • Detecting SYN Floods
               tcp.flags.syn == 1 and tcp.flags.ack == 0




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