Top 15 Most Popular Sniffing Softwares | Dec 2024

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

1. PacketsDump

PacketsDump Packetsdump is a free sniffer tool, it is also a general purpose network diagnostic tool for LAN administrators, security professionals, programmers and students who are interested in network traffic transmitted between PC and the whole LAN. There are some typical uses of Packetsdump:- Packets Capture and Playback- In-depth Packet Decoding-......

2. USBlyzer

USBlyzer USBlyzer is a USB Protocol Analyzer and USB Traffic Sniffer for Windows that displays USB Descriptors, captures and analyzes USB Devices activity in real time.......

3. 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......

4. 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,......

5. 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,......

6. iwScanner

iwScanner iwScanner is a wireless scanner for linux with an easy to use graphic interface.Its designed in Glade and written in python, so it just need PyGTK to run in any linux environmentFor the scanning engine it uses wireless tools, so if you have iwlist you are ready to goInformation about......

7. Packetyzer

Packetyzer Packetyzer provides a Windows user interface for the Ethereal packet capture and dissection library. Ethereal is used by network professionals around the world for troubleshooting, analysis, software and protocol development, and education. Ethereal has all of the standard features expected in a protocol analyzer, and several features not otherwise available.......

8. libprotoident

libprotoident Libprotoident is a library that performs application layer protocol identification for flows. Unlike many techniques that require capturing the entire packet payload, only the first four bytes of payload sent in each direction, the size of the first payload-bearing packet in each direction and the TCP or UDP port numbers......

9. SmartSniff

SmartSniff SmartSniff is a packet sniffer that capture TCP/IP packets and display them as sequence of conversations between clients and servers. You can view the TCP/IP conversations in Ascii mode (for text-based protocols, like HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and FTP) or as hex dump (for non-text base protocols, like DNS). Application can......

10. 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......

11. Urlsnooper

Urlsnooper A program written to help users locate the urls of audio and video files so that they can be recorded.Many links to streaming audio and video that you come across on the web are hidden behind javascript or activex scripts. Because of this, it is sometimes very difficult to figure......

12. CooJah

CooJah CooJah 6 is an upgrade version based on URLCapturer V5.0. It provides functionality of both sniff and download. It can sniff out all network resources which your computer is requesting. These resources include audios, videos, images, flashes etc. Its exclusive functionality of sniffing whole request header and whole response header......

13. Arpwatch

Arpwatch arpwatch is a computer software tool for monitoring Address Resolution Protocol traffic on a computer network. It generates a log of observed pairing of IP addresses with MAC addresses along with a timestamp when the pairing appeared on the network. It also has the option of sending an email to......

14. York

York Log source, destination and packet size of all network traffic on your network.......

15. Acrylic Wifi

Acrylic Wifi Acrylic WiFi Free v2.2 for Windows is an advanced Wi-Fi scanner that is able to gather real-time WLAN information and perform network analysis. The main difference between Acrylic and other WiFi tools is that supports "monitor mode" what means that you can capture all wireless packets and gather information about......