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Analyzing Network Packets With Scapy

  • 342 installs
  • 27.3k repo stars
  • Updated August 2, 2026
  • mukul975/anthropic-cybersecurity-skills

Inspect and analyze network traffic with Scapy when you are validating APIs, debugging protocols, or reviewing security during ship and operate.

About

analyzing-network-packets-with-scapy is an agent skill from a cybersecurity skills bundle that guides solo builders through packet capture and analysis using Python’s Scapy library. Install it when you ship networked services—REST gateways, webhooks, agents calling third-party APIs—and need to confirm what actually crosses the wire instead of trusting application logs alone. The skill sits in the security lane of the journey: reproducing suspicious flows, validating TLS and protocol behavior, and supporting audit-style questions during ship and early operate. Prism’s excerpt emphasizes licensing and collection context; treat the skill as procedural knowledge for structured Scapy workflows rather than a hosted scanner. It suits intermediate builders comfortable running capture tooling locally or in lab environments. Use it alongside code review and monitoring skills when failures are intermittent or when you suspect misconfigured clients, DNS, or middleboxes.

  • Scapy-oriented patterns for capturing and dissecting network packets
  • Supports security review and incident-style protocol debugging
  • Fits Apache 2.0 cybersecurity skills collection workflows
  • Use when prompts need packet-level evidence, not only log lines
  • Pairs with broader appsec and audit practices in agent-assisted reviews

Analyzing Network Packets With Scapy by the numbers

  • 342 all-time installs (skills.sh)
  • +18 installs in the week ending Aug 4, 2026 (Skillselion tracking)
  • Ranked #593 of 2,203 Security skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
  • Security screen: LOW risk (skills.sh audit)
  • Data as of Aug 5, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
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Last updatedAugust 2, 2026
Repositorymukul975/anthropic-cybersecurity-skills

What it does

Inspect and analyze network traffic with Scapy when you are validating APIs, debugging protocols, or reviewing security during ship and operate.

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Analyzing Network Packets with Scapy

Overview

Scapy is a Python packet manipulation library that enables crafting, sending, sniffing, and dissecting network packets at granular protocol layers. This skill covers using Scapy for security-relevant tasks including TCP/UDP/ICMP packet crafting, pcap file analysis, protocol field extraction, SYN scan implementation, DNS query analysis, and detecting anomalous traffic patterns such as unusually fragmented packets or malformed headers.

When to Use

  • When investigating security incidents that require analyzing network packets with scapy
  • When building detection rules or threat hunting queries for this domain
  • When SOC analysts need structured procedures for this analysis type
  • When validating security monitoring coverage for related attack techniques

Prerequisites

  • Python 3.8+ with scapy library installed (pip install scapy)
  • Root/administrator privileges for raw socket operations (sniffing, sending)
  • Npcap (Windows) or libpcap (Linux) for packet capture
  • Authorization to perform packet operations on target network

Steps

1. Read and parse pcap/pcapng files with rdpcap() for offline analysis 2. Extract protocol layers (IP, TCP, UDP, DNS, HTTP) and field values 3. Compute traffic statistics: top talkers, protocol distribution, port frequency 4. Detect SYN flood patterns by analyzing TCP flag ratios 5. Identify DNS exfiltration indicators via query length and entropy analysis 6. Craft custom probe packets for authorized network testing 7. Export findings as structured JSON report

Expected Output

JSON report containing packet statistics, protocol distribution, top source/destination IPs, detected anomalies (SYN floods, DNS tunneling indicators, fragmentation attacks), and per-flow summaries.

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