#Packet sniffer in python for Linux #Sniffs only incoming TCP packet import socket, sys from struct import * #create an INET, STREAMing socket try: s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_RAW, socket.IPPROTO_TCP) except socket.error , msg: print 'Socket could not be created. Error Code : ' + str(msg[0]) + ' Message ' + msg[1] sys.exit() # receive a packet while True: packet = s.recvfrom(65565) #packet string from tuple packet = packet[0] #take first 20 characters for the ip header ip_header = packet[0:20] #now unpack them :) iph = unpack('!BBHHHBBH4s4s' , ip_header) version_ihl = iph[0] version = version_ihl >> 4 ihl = version_ihl & 0xF iph_length = ihl * 4 ttl = iph[5] protocol = iph[6] s_addr = socket.inet_ntoa(iph[8]); d_addr = socket.inet_ntoa(iph[9]); print 'Version : ' + str(version) + ' IP Header Length : ' + str(ihl) + ' TTL : ' + str(ttl) + ' Protocol : ' + str(protocol) + ' Source Address : ' + str(s_addr) + ' Destination Address : ' + str(d_addr) tcp_header = packet[iph_length:iph_length+20] #now unpack them :) tcph = unpack('!HHLLBBHHH' , tcp_header) source_port = tcph[0] dest_port = tcph[1] sequence = tcph[2] acknowledgement = tcph[3] doff_reserved = tcph[4] tcph_length = doff_reserved >> 4 print 'Source Port : ' + str(source_port) + ' Dest Port : ' + str(dest_port) + ' Sequence Number : ' + str(sequence) + ' Acknowledgement : ' + str(acknowledgement) + ' TCP header length : ' + str(tcph_length) h_size = iph_length + tcph_length * 4 data_size = len(packet) - h_size #get data from the packet data = packet[h_size:] print 'Data : ' + data print