Traffic sniffing in wireless communication, using Kali Linux and Wireshark
Mihai Găină, Mădălin Popescu, Robert Alexandru Dobre, Nicolae D. Vizireanu · 2023
In this paper we propose a practical approach on how an attacker, commonly named “Data interception” technology can sniff your data traffic when you browse the Internet over a Wireless Connection and use it in their favor in order to obtain a pattern of your preferences, steal your personal data and create your online profile, exploiting some of the most popular internet protocols, such as TCP/IP, HTTP, IMAP or other important protocols. Using a network adapter in active mode in Kali Linux, we managed to sniff the traffic sent and received through a target Access Point (AP), inspect the individual packets in WireShark and create a personal profile of the owner of each device connected, obtaining data about the online applications that they are using, such as WhatsApp, e-mail clients, or data about their identity.