Top 15 Most Popular Packet Sniffing Softwares | Dec 2024

Here are the top 15 most popular packet sniffing softwares as derived from our TpSort Score which is a continually popular score, it denotes an estimated popularity of a software.

1. DroidSheep

DroidSheep DroidSheep is a simple Android tool for web session hijacking (sidejacking). It listens for HTTP packets sent via a wireless (802.11) network connection and extracts the session id from these packets in order to reuse them.DroidSheep can capture sessions using the libpcap library and supports: OPEN Networks WEP encrypted networks......

2. Justniffer

Justniffer Network TCP Packet SnifferJustniffer is a network protocol analyzer that captures network traffic and produces logs in a customized way, can emulate Apache web server log files, track response times and extract all "intercepted" files from the HTTP traffic.It lets you interactively trace tcp traffic from a live network or......

3. Pypacker

Pypacker Pypacker is a fast and simple packet creation and parsing library for Python. It lets you create packets manually by defining every aspect of all header data and dissect packets by parsing captured packet bytes.Currently minimum supported protocols are: Ethernet, IP, ICMP, TCP, UDP, HTTP, ARP, STP, OSPF, PPP, PPPoE,......

4. Intercepter-NG

Intercepter-NG Intercepter-NG is a multifunctional network toolkit for various types of IT specialists.The main purpose is to recover *interesting* data from the network stream and perform different kinds of MiTM attacks. Intercepter-NG offers the following features: + Sniffing passwords\hashes of the types: ICQ\IRC\AIM\FTP\IMAP\POP3\SMTP\LDAP\BNC\SOCKS\HTTP\WWW\NNTP\CVS\TELNET\MRA\DC++\VNC\MYSQL\ORACLE\NTLM\KRB5\RADIUS + Sniffing chat messages of: ICQ\AIM\JABBER\YAHOO\MSN\IRC\MRA +......

5. packetbeat

packetbeat Packetbeat is an Open Source Application Monitoring and Packet Tracing (Packet Sniffer) system. It works by sniffing the traffic and analyzing network protocols like HTTP, MySQL and REDIS.Packetbeat agents sniff the traffic between your application processes, parse on the fly protocols like HTTP, MySQL or REDIS and correlate the messages......

6. PlayCap

PlayCap PlayCap plays back captures made from Wireshark, tcpdump, WinDump, or any libpcap-based application. PlayCap was originally (and still is) a part of IG Scanner by Signal 11 Software, but was spun off as a separate app and released as Open Source software.......

7. netsniff-ng

netsniff-ng netsniff-ng is a free, performant Linux networking toolkit. The gain of performance is reached by zero-copy mechanisms, so that on packet reception and transmission the kernel does not need to copy packets from kernel space to user space and vice versa. It contains the utilities netsniff-ng, trafgen, mausezahn, bpfc, ifpps,......

8. HTTPNetworkSniffer

HTTPNetworkSniffer Packet sniffer tool that captures all HTTP requests/responses sent between the Web browser and the Web server and displays them in a simple table.......

9. PacketSled

PacketSled PacketSled is next generation network forensics and breach detection. Continuously monitor for advanced threats and policy violations missed by other defenses, then analyze and remediate in record time. PacketSled provides three types of threat detection: IOC signature matching, file extraction and analysis and behavioral analytics. PacketSled's network forensics platform provides......

10. httpry

httpry httpry is a tool designed for displaying and logging HTTP traffic. It is not intended to perform analysis itself, but instead to capture, parse and/or log the traffic for later analysis. It can be run in real-time displaying the live traffic on the wire, or as a daemon process that......

11. trafshow

trafshow TrafShow continuously display the information regarding packet traffic on the configured network interface that match the boolean expression. It periodically sorts and updates this information. This funny program may be useful for locating suspicious network traffic on the net or to evaluate current utilization of the network interface.......

12. LanDetective

LanDetective LanDetective is a traffic analysis tool for monitoring Internet usage. Interception and logging of data transferred via high-level network protocols is the main distinctive feature of LanDetective over other network analyzers and sniffers. When capturing packets in a network, LanDetective reconstructs TCP/IP sessions and carries out the analysis of application-level......

13. Pirni Pro

Pirni Pro Pirni Pro is a network security tool designed for iOS, and specifically for iPhone and iPod Touch devices. It is capable of intercepting traffic on a wireless network segment, capturing passwords, and regular expressions entered by the user.The core system of Pirni, written in C, is open-source software, and licensed......

14. HTTP Debugger

HTTP Debugger HTTP Debugger Pro - A Professional HTTP Sniffer and Analyzer for Developers......

15. WebSiteSniffer

WebSiteSniffer WebSiteSniffer is a packet sniffer tool that captures all Web site files downloaded by your Web browser while browsing the Internet, and stores them on your hard drive under the folder that you choose.......