Impacket Alternatives

Impacket is described as 'Collection of Python classes for working with network protocols. Impacket is focused on providing low-level programmatic access to the packets and for some protocols (e.g. SMB1-3 and MSRPC) the protocol implementation itself' and is an app in the network & admin category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Impacket for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and BSD apps. The best Impacket alternative is Wireshark, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Impacket are tcpdump, TCP Viewer, NetworkMiner and PCAPdroid.

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  1. Wireshark icon
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    Wireshark is a premier network protocol analyzer used globally in industries and education, offering multi-platform support, deep protocol inspection, powerful display filters, and VoIP analysis. It allows both live capture and offline analysis, supporting various networks and protocols.

    61 Wireshark alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • Arch Linux
    • Flathub
    • Fedora
    • FreeBSD
    • Homebrew
    • Chocolatey
     
  2. tcpdump icon
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    Command-line packet analyzer for monitoring, capturing, and filtering network traffic in real time. Supports TCP/IP protocols, pcap file export, BPF syntax, timestamped outputs, and works on UNIX-like systems with both wired and wireless interfaces.

    31 tcpdump alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  3. TCP Viewer icon
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    Real-time macOS network tool captures, displays, and filters TCP traffic using AppKit, libpcap, and Wireshark libraries, supports PCAP/PCAPNG files, offers protocol filters, drag-and-drop, noise reduction, detailed packet review, export options, and grouped traffic analysis.

    17 TCP Viewer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. NetworkMiner icon
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    NetworkMiner is a Network Forensic Analysis Tool (NFAT) for Windows. NetworkMiner can extract transmitted files and certificates from PCAP files containing HTTP, FTP, SMB, SMB2, TFTP and several other protocols.

    41 NetworkMiner alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. PCAPdroid icon
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    PCAPdroid is an android app to capture the phone traffic and analyze it remotely (e.g. via Wireshark). The traffic can be easily downloaded from a remote device thanks to the integrated HTTP server, or streamed to a remote UDP receiver.

    45 PCAPdroid alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  6. G-Earth icon
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    Cross-platform Habbo packet manipulator.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  7. Edgeshark icon
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    Discover and capture container network traffic from your comfy desktop Wireshark, using a containerized service and a Wireshark plugin.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
     
  8. SmartSniff icon
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    SmartSniff is a packet sniffer that capture TCP/IP packets and display them as sequence of conversations between clients and servers. You can view the TCP/IP conversations in Ascii mode (for text-based protocols, like HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and FTP) or as hex dump (for non-text base...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Sysdig icon
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    Sysdig is open source, system-level exploration: capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze. Think of it as strace + tcpdump + lsof + awesome sauce.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. Appknox icon
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    Appknox is a mobile app security testing solution to detect and fix vulnerabilities in mobile apps using a combination of automated and manual tests.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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