Building a packet sniffer using Python 🐍 that extracts visited URLs and user credentials.
This is part 2 of Man In The Middle (MITM) attack. If you haven’t read part 1 then I strongly suggest you read that before reading part 2. You can find the link to Part 1 in the next section.
What is a Packet Sniffer?
A packet sniffer is a tool that is used to monitor networks and to diagnose any network problems. It is commonly used by network technicians. Hackers often use this to spy on user’s network traffic and for extracting passwords.
Packet sniffers log network traffic on a network interface that they have access to. It can see every packet that flows to and from an interface.
You’d be wondering that we are designing a packet sniffer but the title says Man In The Middle Attack. This is because in Part 1 we wrote a Python script (ARP Spoofing) that allows us to become a Man In The Middle. The purpose of the packet sniffer is to capture the victim’s (the user which has been attacked using ARP Spoofing) network traffic and extract visited URLs and credentials.
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