Wireshark

About

This tool serves as an MCP server, empowering AI models and other MCP clients to leverage the full power of Wireshark for network traffic analysis. It provides a comprehensive suite of functions for packet inspection, data extraction, statistical analysis, and even live traffic capture. Users can programmatically query pcap files, reassemble streams, identify security threats, and visualize network behavior, making it an invaluable resource for automated network diagnostics, security assessments, and protocol research.

Key Features

• Integrated Security Features for threat intelligence lookups and credential extraction
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• Live Traffic Capture, pcap file merging, and filtering capabilities
• Comprehensive Data Extraction for HTTP, DNS, fields, and embedded objects
• Deep Packet Inspection and Contextual Viewing (e.g., full packet details, surrounding packets)
• Advanced Network Statistics including protocol hierarchy, endpoints, conversations, and I/O graphs

Use Cases

• Automating analysis of pcap files to identify network anomalies or specific traffic patterns
• Enabling LLMs to perform sophisticated network diagnostics and security auditing
• Extracting and verifying specific data from network captures for compliance or incident response