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Conduct PCAP Analysis with Scapy

In this lab, you’ll practice using the command line tool scapy to process and examine a packet capture file for network activity. When you’re finished, you’ll have the necessary skills and knowledge of how to analyze packet captures, use network tools to identify network activity findings and how this information can be useful.

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Level
Intermediate
Last updated
Jul 30, 2025
Duration
40m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Getting Started in the Lab Environment

    Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!

  2. Challenge

    Network Connection Analysis

    In this challenge you will use scapy to examine a packet capture file taken from your organization as part of a security incident. You will learn the techniques to extract and analyze IP address information and port connection details.

  3. Challenge

    HTTP Analysis

    In this challenge you will use scapy to examine a packet capture file taken from your organization as part of a security incident. You will learn the techniques to extract and analyze web traffic information.

  4. Challenge

    DNS Analysis

    In this challenge you will use scapy to examine a packet capture file taken from your organization as part of a security incident. You will learn the techniques to extract and analyze DNS information.

  5. Challenge

    The Last Challenge

    Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.

About the author

Tim Coakley is a Senior Security Solutions Architect for a large multi-national organisation and an author at PluralSight. Tim started a long and successful full-time career in Digital Forensics supporting the criminal justice system and law enforcement on a long list of criminal cases.

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