This is a list of public packet capture repositories, which are freely available on the Internet.

Most of the sites listed below share Full Packet Capture (FPC) files, but some do unfortunately only have truncated frames.

Cyber Defence Exercises (CDX)

This category includes network traffic from exercises and competitions, such as Cyber Defense Exercises (CDX) and red-team/blue-team competitions.

MACCDC - Pcaps from National CyberWatch Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition

https://www.netresec.com/?page=MACCDC

ISTS - Pcaps from the Information Security Talent Search

https://www.netresec.com/?page=ISTS

WRCCDC - Pcaps from the Western Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (over 1TB of PCAPs)

https://archive.wrccdc.org/pcaps/

Captures from the "2009 Inter-Service Academy Cyber Defense Competition" served by Information Technology Operations Center (ITOC), United States Military Academy

http://www.westpoint.edu/crc/SitePages/DataSets.aspx

Capture the Flag Competitions (CTF)

PCAP files from capture-the-flag (CTF) competitions and challenges.

Note: Sniffing CTF's is known as "capture-the-capture-the-flag" or CCTF.

DEFCON Capture the Flag Contest traces (from DEF CON 8, 10 and 11)

http://cctf.shmoo.com/

DEFCON 17 Capture the Flag Contest traces

http://ddtek.biz/dc17.html



DEFCON CTF PCAPs from DEF CON 17 to 24 (look for the big RAR files inside the ctf directories)

https://media.defcon.org/

DEFCON CTF 2018 PCAP files

https://www.oooverflow.io/dc-ctf-2018-finals/

CSAW CTF 2011 pcap files

http://captf.com/2011/csaw-quals/networking/

http://repo.shell-storm.org/CTF/CSAW-2011/Networking/

Pcap files from UCSB International Capture The Flag, also known as the iCTF (by Giovanni Vigna)

https://ictf.cs.ucsb.edu/pages/archive.html

HackEire CTF Challenge pcaps from IRISSCON (by HackEire)

https://github.com/markofu/hackeire/

No cON Name 2014 CTF Finals, "Vodka" challenge

https://github.com/MarioVilas/write-ups/raw/master/ncn-ctf-2014/Vodka/vodka (bzip2 compressed PCAP-NG file)

PhreakNIC CTF from 2016 (by _NSAKEY). Contains traffic to/from the target, the NetKoTH scoring server and the IRC server.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B9TXiR9NkjmpOHNMRTl6VVA2RnM