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Module to generate PCAPs from any input file. This is a modified version of PGT tool which wasdeveloped earlier by, Andrewg Felinemenace.
pgtlib is a wrapper built on top of Scapy/Kamene to provide additional flexibility to create custom TCP client<->server packet captures. This module would also provide functionality to prefix 3-way TCP Handshake and close established connections gracefully.
Let's say over TCP/5555, you would want to send "----> hey from client\n" from client and server echoes back with a response message saying, "<---- ACK\n". Let's construct a packet based on this:
from pcapgen.pgtlib import *
fHandle = PCAP('/tmp/tcp.pcap') # PCAP Output Filename
conn = fHandle.tcp_conn_to_server(5555) # Assign dest port as TCP/5555
conn.to_server('----> From Client\r\n') # Client message to server
conn.to_client('<---- From Server\r\n') # Server message to client
conn.finish() # Construct FIN
fHandle.close() # Close file handle
print('[*]Done.')
PCAP Fix Tool (pft, in short) is a wrapper on top of scapy/kamene. This utility helps in resolving broken TCP communications, changing endpoint directions and ports etc. This tool takes the C Arrays input of any TCP stream, appends the missing TCP 3-Way handshakes along with adding the necessary FIN TCP flags to terminate the established TCP communication gracefully.
PCAP Genation Tool (pgt) is wrapper built on top of scapy/kamene again which generates simulated HTTP,FTP and Email (SMTP/IMAP) protocols data along with several encoding types i.e. base64, deflate, gzip etc.
$python pgt.py ~/Desktop/sample.docx # Generates HTTP(GET/POST), FTP(active and passive), SMTP and IMAP PCAPs.
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Module to generate PCAPs from any input file. This is a modified version of PGT tool which wasdeveloped earlier by, Andrewg Felinemenace.
We found that pcapgen demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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