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  GoShark's title page! Like the ASCII art?

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  Capturing 2000 packets right infront of your eyes

Inspiration

Have you ever wondered what could be passing or lurking in your network traffic? Four cybersecurity enthusiasts sought to learn and expand WireShark's(a popular network packet sniffer) capabilities by implementing it in GoLang and including vulnerability reporting. Drumroll everyone and please welcome GoShark!

What it does

GoShark uses a command line interface to prompt you to choose a network source, capture network packets, and produce a sleek vulnerability report. In a matter of minutes, you can watch what your internet requests can reveal.

How we built it

GoShark is written in GoLang. You may be wondering, how did we tell a language to capture some packets?

1. Ask the user which network interface we can connect to
2. Use a handy gopacket interface to capture packets
3. Parse input using logical expressions and output to a file
4. Send output file to a LaTeX formatter
5. Read over final product!

Challenges we ran into

• Cross compatability across different operating systems: Windows, Linux, Mac
• Using some hard brain logic to parse network packets
• Gathering network data to create fleshed out information
• Formatting LaTeX tables to include our overflow of vulnerability notes

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Translating everyday network packets into meaningful security-related information!

What we learned

GoLang #pcap #Networks #RegEx #LaTeX #StayingUpIsHardforHalfofUs #StayingUpIsEasyforHalfofUs

What's next for GoShark

Fixing table formatting, gathering more vulnerable protocols, migrating packet data to GCP

Built With

• go
• golang
• gopacket
• latex
• pcap