HackTricks
HackTricks
Ask or search…
K
Links
Comment on page

DNSCat pcap analysis

If you have pcap with data being exfiltrated by DNSCat (without using encryption), you can find the exfiltrated content.
You only need to know that the first 9 bytes are not real data but are related to the C&C communication:
from scapy.all import rdpcap, DNSQR, DNSRR
import struct
f = ""
last = ""
for p in rdpcap('ch21.pcap'):
if p.haslayer(DNSQR) and not p.haslayer(DNSRR):
qry = p[DNSQR].qname.replace(".jz-n-bs.local.","").strip().split(".")
qry = ''.join(_.decode('hex') for _ in qry)[9:]
if last != qry:
print(qry)
f += qry
last = qry
#print(f)