NetworkMiner

NetworkMiner is an open source Network Forensic Analysis Tool (NFAT) for Windows (but also works in Linux / Mac OS X / FreeBSD). NetworkMiner can be used as a passive network sniffer/packet capturing tool in order to detect operating systems, sessions, hostnames, open ports etc. without putting any traffic on the network. NetworkMiner can also parse PCAP files for off-line analysis and to regenerate/reassemble transmitted files and certificates from PCAP files.

NetworkMiner makes it easy to perform advanced Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) by providing extracted artifacts in an intuitive user interface. The way data is presented not only makes the analysis simpler, it also saves valuable time for the analyst or forensic investigator.

NetworkMiner has, since the first release in 2007, become a popular tool among incident response teams as well as law enforcement. NetworkMiner is today used by companies and organizations all over the world.

NetworkMiner can extract files, emails and certificates transferred over the network by parsing a PCAP file or by sniffing traffic directly from the network.

NetworkMiner showing files extracted from sniffed network traffic to disk

NetworkMiner showing thumbnails for images extracted to disk

User credentials (usernames and passwords) for supported protocols are extracted by NetworkMiner and displayed under the "Credentials" tab. The credentials tab sometimes also show information that can be used to identify a particular person, such as user accounts for popular online services like Gmail or Facebook.

Another very useful feature is that the user can search sniffed or stored data for keywords. NetworkMiner allows the user to insert arbitrary string or byte-patterns that shall be searched for with the keyword search functionality.

NetworkMiner Professional comes installed on a specially designed USB flash drive. You can run NetworkMiner directly from the USB flash drive since NetworkMiner is a portable application that doesn't require any installation. We at Netresec do, however, recommend that you copy NetworkMiner to the local hard drive of your computer in order to achieve maximum performance.

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Download NetworkMiner

The latest version of NetworkMiner can be downloaded from:

» https://www.netresec.com/?download=NetworkMiner « (executable application)

SHA256 hash: 3f11dc812a9a3c84fafa29660e6142464582825569771e1f60bd6568e0269b23

» https://www.netresec.com/?page=NetworkMinerSourceCode « (source code)

SHA256 hash: dc6c45d7861cf4dd0b253a00f9908126c2dc29db7ec36f84e1008d251a2a1331



For older releases of NetworkMiner (prior to version 2.0), please visit the NetworkMiner page on SourceForge:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/networkminer/files/networkminer/

However, please note that we no longer release new versions of NetworkMiner on SourceForge.

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There are also several blog posts about NetworkMiner on the NETRESEC Network Security Blog:

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