Extracting Secrets from Packet Captures (A CMIYC2024 Story)
" Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous. " - Georgia O'Keeffe Introduction: The focus of this blog entry will be on tools and scripts to analyze packet captures. This is the result of falling down a rabbit hole when writing the previous tutorial on the CMIYC 2024 WIFI cracking challenge: [ Link ]. In that writeup I realized I hadn't been keeping up on the state of automated tooling to help extract secrets and interesting data from packet captures. So I asked for tips and suggestions on what I could use. And you all responded! This is another reason why these blog posts are really beneficial to me. I learn so much writing them, so thank you! As a disclaimer, while I will be using the CMIYC2024 dataset to explore using some of these tools, these tools are not really suited for password cracking competitions. For short competitions, you are better off performing manual analysis of the data. As a spoiler, none