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PRADS - Passive Real-time Asset Detection System

prads -i eth1 -v


PRADS is a Passive Real-time Asset Detection System.

PRADS employs digital fingerprints to recognize services on the wire, and can be used to map your network and monitor for changes in real time.

Real-time passive traffic analysis will also let you detect assets that are just connected to the network for a short period of time, since PRADS can glean useful information from every packet.

PRADS aims to be the one-stop-shop for passive asset detection, and currently does MAC lookups, TCP and UDP OS fingerprinting as well as client and service application matching and a connection state table. Various output plugins include logfile and FIFO and make PRADS a useful replacement for p0f, pads and sancp.

PRADS was built from the ground up for a small footprint and modern networks with IPv6 and gigabits of throughput.

Network device <iface> (default: eth0).
Read pcap <file>.
Read config from <file>.
Apply Berkeley packet filter <filter>.
Run as user <user> (Default: uid 1).
Run as group <group> (Default: gid 1).
Do not drop privileges.
Specify home nets (eg: '192.168.0.0/25,10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0').
Daemonize.
Name of pidfile - inside chroot.
Log assets to <file> (default: '%s')n", config.assetlog.
Log assets to <FIFO>.
Log connections to ringbuffer.
Chroot into <dir> before dropping privs.
Flag picker: X - clear flags, F:FIN, R:RST, M:MAC, S:SYN, A:ACK, K:SYNACK
Service checks: U:UDP, T:TCP-server, I:ICMP, t:TCP-cLient
DHCP fingerprinting.
Dump <snaplen> bytes of each payload.
Verbose output - repeat for more verbosity.
Quiet - try harder not to produce output.
log cxtracker type output to <dir> (will be owned by <uid>).
Connection tracking [O]utput - per-packet!
Conne[x]ion tracking output - New, expired and ended.
Passive DNS (Experimental).
DHCP fingerprinting (Expermiental).
This help message.



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Doesn't detect everything out there :-P
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This man page.

  • PRADS <http://prads.projects.linpro.no/>
  • p0f <http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/p0f.shtml>
  • PADS <http://passive.sourceforge.net/>

Report bugs here:

http://github.com/gamelinux/prads/issues

For general questions:

  • http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/prads-devel
  • http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/prads-users

Edward Bjarte Fjellskål <edwardfjellskaal@gmail.com>, Kacper Wysocki <comotion@users.sf.net>

GPL

2010-06-17 0.2