iPhone and WireShark

Question

How can I sniff packets from my iPhone on my network  can someone give me some instructions  I tried Googling  but nothing teaches how to sniff iPhone packets   I am on windows

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I recommend Charles Web Proxy

Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information).

SSL Proxying – view SSL requests and responses in plain text
Bandwidth Throttling to simulate slower Internet connections including latency
AJAX debugging – view XML and JSON requests and responses as a tree or as text
AMF – view the contents of Flash Remoting / Flex Remoting messages as a tree
Repeat requests to test back-end changes, Edit requests to test different inputs
Breakpoints to intercept and edit requests or responses
Validate recorded HTML, CSS and RSS/atom responses using the W3C validator

It's cross-platform, written in JAVA, and pretty good. Not nearly as overwhelming as Wireshark, and does a lot of the annoying stuff like setting up the proxies, etc. for you. The only bad part is that it costs money, $50 at that. Not cheap, but a useful tool.

Read more about Charles's features.

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I have successfully captured HTTP traffic using Fiddler2 as a proxy  which can be installed on any Windows PC on your network    In Fiddler  Tools -  Fiddler Options -  Connections -   x  Allow remote computers to connect  Make sure your windows firewall is disabled  On the iphone ipod  go to your wireless settings  use a manual proxy server  enter the fiddler machine s ip address and the same port  defaults to 8888

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I like to use Pirni  availble for free in Cydia on a jailbroken device   or there s also Pirni Pro now for a few bucks  http   en wikipedia org wiki Pirni   I ve been using the pirni-derv script available for free on Google Code  http   code google com p pirni-derv   mixed with Pirni and it s been working very well  I recommend it

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The following worked for iPhone 4S  iOS 5  and Macbook Pro  10 8 2    On your Mac  go to System Preferences   Sharing   Internet Sharing  On your iPhone  go to Settings   Wifi and choose your Mac as the Wifi Access Point  Press the blue detail disclosure next to it to and note down the IP Address  192 168 2 2 in my case   At this point  the wifi icon on Mac s your taskbar should change to the following   Open wireshark  Click on start capture  and use the new bridge interface that should now be available among the options       Profit    As with all stuff networking related  you might have to restart wifi etc and repeat steps and invoke your favorite deity to get this incantation working

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I had to do something very similar to find out why my iPhone was bleeding cellular network data  eating 80  of my 500Mb allowance in a couple of days   Unfortunately I had to packet sniff whilst on 3G 4G and couldn t rely on being on wireless  So if you need an  industrial  solution then this is how you sniff all traffic  not just http  on any network   Basic recipe    Install VPN server Run packet sniffer on VPN server Connect iPhone to VPN server and perform operations Download  pcap from VPN server and use your favourite  pcap analyser on it    Detailed ish instructions    Get yourself a linux server  I used Fedora 20 64bit from Digirtal Ocean on a  5 month box Configure OpenVPN on it  OpenVPN has comprehensive instructions Ensure you configure the Routing all traffic through the VPN section Be aware the instructions for  3  are all iptables which has been superseded  at time of writing  by firewall-cmd  This website explains the firewall-cmd to use Check that you can connect your iPhone to the VPN  I did this by downloading the free OpenVPN software  I then set up a OpenVPN certificate  You can embed your ca  crt  amp  key files by opening up and embedding the --- BEGIN CERTIFACTE --- ---- END CERTIFICATE --- in  lt  ca    lt   ca    lt  crt   lt   crt  lt  key    lt   key   blocks  Note that I had to do this in Mac with text editor  when I used notepad exe on Win it didn t work  I then emailed this to my iphone and picked installed it  Check the iPhone connects to VPN and routes it s traffic through  google what s my IP should return the VPN server IP when you run it on iPhone  Now that you can connect go to your linux server  amp  install wireshark  yum install wireshark  This installs tshark  which is a command line packet sniffer  Run this in the background with screen tshark -i tun0 -x -w capture pcap -F pcap  assuming vpn device is tun0  Now when you want to capture traffic simply start the VPN on your machine When complete switch off the VPN Download the  pcap file from your server  and run analysis as you normally would  It s been decrypted on the server when it arrives so the traffic is viewable in plain text  obviously https still encrypted    Note that the above implementation is not security focussed it s simply about getting a detailed packet capture of all of your iPhone s traffic on 3G 4G Wireless networks

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You can use Paros to sniff the network traffic from your iPhone  See this excellent step by step post for more information  http   blog jerodsanto net 2009 06 sniff-your-iphones-network-traffic   Also  look in the comments for some advice for using other proxies to get the same job done   One caveat is that Paras only sniffs HTTP GET POST requests using the method above  so to sniff all network traffic  try the following         Just turn on network sharing over WiFi and run a packet sniffer like Cocoa Packet Analyzer  in OSX     Then connect to the new network from iPhone over WiFi   SystemPreferences- Sharing- InternetSharing       If you re after sniffing these packets on Windows  connect to the internet using Ethernet  share your internet connection  and use the Windows computer as your access point  Then  just run Wireshark as normal and intercept the packets flowing through  filtering by their startpoints  Alternatively  try using a network hub as Wireshark can trace all packets flowing through a network if they are using the same router endpoint address  as in a hub

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The easiest way of doing this will be to use wifi of course  You will need to determine if your wifi base acts as a hub or a switch  If it acts as a hub then just connect your windows pc to it and wireshark should be able to see all the traffic from the iPhone  If it is a switch then your easiest bet will be to buy a cheap hub and connect the wan side of your wifi base to the hub and then connect your windows pc running wireshark to the hub as well  At that point wireshark will be able to see all the traffic as it passes over the hub

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You can proceed as follow    Install Charles Web Proxy  Disable SSL proxying  uncheck the flag in Proxy- Proxy Settings   - SSL Connect your iDevice to the Charles proxy  as explained here Sniff the packets via Wireshark or Charles

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This worked for me    Connect your iOS device by USB   rvictl -s UDID where UDID is the UDID of your device  located in XCode under Devices  shortcut to with   2    sudo launchctl list com apple rpmuxd   sudo tcpdump -n -t -i rvi0 -q tcp or   sudo tcpdump -i rvi0 -n      If victl is not working install Xcode and the developer tools   For more info see Remote Virtual Interface and for the original tutorial here s the Use Your Loaf blog post

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The tcpdump tool is available under gnu   You can use it instead of wireshark

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