Asked By
philippe so
20 points
N/A
Posted on - 04/17/2012
Have you guys heard of Xplico?
I am just curious how it works and what are its functions?
How does the application Xplico works?
Hi there!
Xplico is a Network Forensic Analyzer Tool (NFAT i.e. a tool which can be used to monitor and analyze the network traffic for different purposes like information gathering) which is used to “sniff” internet data packets. Xplico is an open source program which can be used for network traffic surveillance. It’s not a usual packet sniffer or network analyzer like WireShark. It extracts the data from packet capture by parsing them (pcap i.e. packet capture library).
It extracts the application data contained in captured packets like from e-mail(IMAP,SMTP etc.), http content, TCP and UDP protocol contents ,VoIP calls and other data. This program supports multithreading and is compatible with both IPv4 and IPv6. It can extract data from Instant Messengers, FTP transactions and so on. It can also back-track the Domain Name Server from the DNS packets it captures. It can handle huge data by saving data with SQLite and MySQL support.
How does the application Xplico works?
Xplico is also known as NFAT or Network Forensics Analysis Tool. It is a program that rebuilds the contents acquired carried out by a packet sniffer. Examples of packet sniffer are tcpdump, Wireshark, and Netsniff-ng. This tool is mainly designed for reconstructing the protocols’ application data. It has the ability to identify the protocols using the Port Independent Protocol Identification technique [PIPI].
Xplico is a free software distributed under the GNU General Public License. To learn how it works, this program is capable of reconstructing all the web pages including its contents of raw data in web navigation. It is also capable of reconstructing email messages exchanged with SMTP, IMAP, and POP protocols.
How does the application Xplico works?
Actually, I am a new business user, so many of my friends’ suggested to me the application Xplico. Their opinion was, Xplico Evaluator is an easy-to-use, flexible assessment tool with integrated risk assessment and the powerful analysis features are very useful for the life science industry. So, I need more information about Xplico as well it functions too. By analyzing your comments, I have got my desired answer which was not knowledgeable in my past. Also, got an idea about its work information you have suggested to me to go to all the web pages which were included its content of raw data in web navigation which was a right suggestion, already I have got. To Sharath, all your comments are very useful and full of knowledge to be caught especially to the viewers who have the same question like mine. A big thanks guys for your helping hand.
