CSE508: Network Security, Fall 2017
Submission deadline: 10/13/2017 11:59pm EDT Submission through https://blackboard.stonybrook.edu
In this assignment you will develop a passive network monitoring application written in C (or C++, but no other language is acceptable) using the libpcap packet capture library. Your program, called 'mydump', will capture the traffic from a network interface in promiscuous mode (or read the packets from a pcap trace file) and print a record for each packet in its standard output, much like a simplified version of tcpdump. The user should be able to specify a BPF filter for capturing a subset of the traffic, and/or a string pattern for capturing only packets with matching payloads.
Your program should conform to the following specification:
mydump [-i interface] [-r file] [-s string] expression
-i Live capture from the network device (e.g., eth0). If not specified, mydump should automatically select a default interface to listen on (hint 1). Capture should continue indefinitely until the user terminates the program.
-r Read packets from in tcpdump format (hint 2).
-s Keep only packets that contain in their payload (after any BPF filter is applied). You are not required to implement wildcard or regular expression matching. A simple string matching operation should suffice (hint 3).
is a BPF filter that specifies which packets will be dumped. If no filter is given, all packets seen on the interface (or contained in the trace) should be dumped. Otherwise, only packets matching should be dumped.
For each packet, mydump prints a record containing the timestamp, source and destination MAC address, EtherType, packet length, source and destination IP address and port, protocol type (e.g., "TCP", "UDP", "ICMP", "OTHER"), and the raw content of the packet payload (hint 4). You are free, but not required, to enrich the output with other useful information from the packet headers (e.g., TCP flags, IP/TCP options, ICMP message types). You do not need to support any link-layer protocol other than Ethernet.
Your program should be compatible with modern Linux distributions. At the minimum, it should work on Ubuntu.
What to submit:
A tarball with all required source code files, an appropriate Makefile, and a short report (txt file is fine) with a brief description of your implementation and a short example output from your program.
Hints:
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pcap_lookupdev()
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pcap_open_offline()
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e.g., strstr()
2016-02-16 13:14:33.224487 01:00:5E:7F:FF:7F -> C4:3D:C7:17:6F:17 type 0x800 len 92 10.0.0.1:137 -> 10.0.0.255:137 UDP EB 71 01 10 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 45 42 45 .q.......... EBE 4A 45 42 46 44 43 41 43 41 43 41 43 41 43 41 43 JEBFDCACACACACAC 41 43 41 43 41 43 41 43 41 43 41 41 41 00 00 20 ACACACACACAAA.. 00 01 ..
2016-02-16 14:44:32.483327 00:1E:4F:A6:2D:77 -> 00:00:5E:00:01:64 type 0x800 len 98 130.245.50.111 -> 130.245.20.2 ICMP 3E 1C F8 49 8E 2A 01 00 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F >..I........... 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F ................ 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 2A 2B 2C 2D 2E 2F !"#$%&'()+,-./ 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 01234567
2016-02-16 15:04:13.064632 D0:C7:89:A9:C7:40 -> 00:06:5B:FE:42:1A type 0x800 len 74 192.168.0.1:2365 -> 192.168.1.2:80 TCP
2016-02-16 15:04:13.131911 00:06:5B:FE:42:1A -> D0:C7:89:A9:C7:40 type 0x800 len 74 192.168.1.2:80 -> 192.168.0.1:2365 TCP
2016-02-16 15:04:13.131969 D0:C7:89:A9:C7:40 -> 00:06:5B:FE:42:1A type 0x800 len 66 192.168.0.1:2365 -> 192.168.1.2:80 TCP
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