Scapy

Scapy is a powerful Python-based interactive packet manipulation program and
library.

It is able to forge or decode packets of a wide number of protocols, send them
on the wire, capture them, store or read them using pcap files, match requests
and replies, and much more. It is designed to allow fast packet prototyping by
using default values that work.

It can easily handle most classical tasks like scanning, tracerouting, probing,
unit tests, attacks or network discovery (it can replace hping, 85% of nmap,
arpspoof, arp-sk, arping, tcpdump, wireshark, p0f, etc.). It also
performs very well at a lot of other specific tasks that most other tools can't
handle, like sending invalid frames, injecting your own 802.11 frames, combining
techniques (VLAN hopping+ARP cache poisoning, VoIP decoding on WEP protected
channel, ...), etc.

Scapy supports Python 3.7+. It's intended to
be cross platform, and runs on many different platforms (Linux, OSX,
*BSD, and Windows).

Getting started

Scapy is usable either as a shell or as a library.
For further details, please head over to Getting started with Scapy, which is part of the documentation.

Shell demo

Scapy install demo

Scapy can easily be used as an interactive shell to interact with the network.
The following example shows how to send an ICMP Echo Request message to
github.com, then display the reply source IP address:

sudo ./run_scapy
Welcome to Scapy
>>> p = IP(dst="github.com")/ICMP()
>>> r = sr1(p)
Begin emission:
.Finished to send 1 packets.
*
Received 2 packets, got 1 answers, remaining 0 packets
>>> r[IP].src
'192.30.253.113'

Resources

The documentation contains more
advanced use cases, and examples.

Other useful resources:

Scapy in 20 minutes
Interactive tutorial (part of the documentation)
The quick demo: an interactive session (some examples may be outdated)
HTTP/2 notebook
TLS notebooks

Installation

Scapy works without any external Python modules on Linux and BSD like operating
systems. On Windows, you need to install some mandatory dependencies as
described in the
documentation.

On most systems, using Scapy is as simple as running the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/secdev/scapy
cd scapy
./run_scapy

To benefit from all Scapy features, such as plotting, you might want to install
Python modules, such as matplotlib or cryptography. See the
documentation and
follow the instructions to install them.

Dependency	Optional
cryptography	true
ipython	true
matplotlib	true
pyx	true
sphinx	true
sphinx-rtd-theme	true
tox	true

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