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Publicly available PCAP files

This is a list of public packet capture repositories, which are freely available on the Internet.
Most of the sites listed below share Full Packet Capture (FPC) files, but some do unfortunately only have truncated frames.

Uncategorized PCAP Repositories

Wireshark Sample Capures
https://wiki.wireshark.org/SampleCaptures
https://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/PcapNg#Example_pcapng_Capture_File

SharkFest'15 Packet Challenge
https://sharkfest.wireshark.org/assets/presentations15/packetchallenge.zip (via SharkFest)

Packet analysis challenge by Johannes Weber
https://blog.webernetz.net/2017/03/29/wireshark-layer-2-3-pcap-analysis-w-challenges-ccnp-switch/
Additional PCAP files from Johannes can be found here: https://blog.webernetz.net/tag/pcap/

Nicholas Russo's "Job Aid" packet capture list
http://njrusmc.net/jobaid/jobaid.html

TcpReplay Sample Captures
https://tcpreplay.appneta.com/wiki/captures.html

Applied Communication Sciences' MILCOM 2016 datasets
https://www.netresec.com/?page=ACS_MILCOM_2016

Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) UNSW-NB15 data set (100 GB)
https://cloudstor.aarnet.edu.au/plus/index.php/s/2DhnLGDdEECo4ys?path=%2FUNSW-NB15%20-%20pcap%20files

DARPA Intrusion Detection Data Sets from 1998 and 1999
https://archive.ll.mit.edu/ideval/data/

OpenPacket.org Capture Repository (maintained by JJ Cummings created by Richard Bejtlich)
https://www.openpacket.org/capture/list

Tim's packet Zoo
http://uluru.ee.unsw.edu.au/~tim/zoo/

PacketLife.net Packet Captures (Jeremy Stretch)
http://packetlife.net/captures/
http://packetlife.net/captures/leech/

MOME database
http://www.ist-mome.org/database/MeasurementData/?cmd=databrowse

EvilFingers PCAPs
https://www.evilfingers.com/repository/pcaps.php

Mixed PCAP file repo with a great deal of BACnet traffic (by Steve Karg)
http://kargs.net/captures/

Wireshark Network Analysis Study Guide (Laura Chappell)
https://www.chappell-university.com/studyguide (see "Book Supplements" or use this direct link to the 1.5 GB pcap file set)

Wireshark 101 Essential Skills for Network Analysis (Laura Chappell)
https://www.chappell-university.com/wireshark101-2ndedition (see "Book Supplements" or use this direct linkt to the 400 MB zip file)

Laura's Lab Kit v.9 ISO image (old)
http://cdn.novell.com/cached/video/bs_08/LLK9.iso

Freely available packet captures collected by Chris Sanders
http://chrissanders.org/packet-captures/

Sample capture files from: "Practical Packet Analysis - Using Wireshark to Solve Real-World Network Problems" by Chris Sanders
http://www.nostarch.com/download/ppa-capture-files.zip

Megalodon Challenge by Jasper Bongertz - "a real world network analysis problem, with all its confusion, drawbacks and uncertainties" (3.8 GB sanitized PCAP-NG files)
Blog post: https://blog.packet-foo.com/2015/07/the-megalodon-challenge/
Direct link: http://www.packet-foo.com/megalodon2015/MegalodonChallenge.7z

Pcaps and logs generated in @elcabezzonn's lab environment. Spans from malware, to normal traffic, to pentester tools
https://github.com/elcabezzonn/Pcaps

Anonymous FTP connections to public FTP servers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
http://www-nrg.ee.lbl.gov/anonymized-traces.html

Pcapr (Mu Dynamics) - A capture repository with pcap files of various traffic types
http://www.pcapr.net/

Understand project Downloads - Lots of different capture file formats (pcap, pcapng/ntar, pcangpklg and more...)
http://code.google.com/p/understand/downloads/list

I Smell Packets (website)
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0Bw6BFSu9NExVMjBjZDRkMTgtMmMyZi00M2ZlLWI2NzgtODM5NTZkM2U4OWQ1

ISCX 2012 Dataset. Over 80 GB of pcap data available for researchers (created by Ali Shiravi, Hadi Shiravi, and Mahbod Tavallaee from University of New Brunswick)
http://www.unb.ca/research/iscx/dataset/index.html

Research PCAP datasets from FOI's Information Warfare Lab (FOI is The Swedish Defence Research Agency)
ftp://download.iwlab.foi.se/dataset/smia2011/Network_traffic/ (SMIA 2011, FTP server)
https://download.netresec.com/pcap/smia-2011/ (SMIA 2011, web mirror)
ftp://download.iwlab.foi.se/dataset/smia2012/network_traffic/pcap/ (SMIA 2012, FTP server)
https://download.netresec.com/pcap/smia-2012/ (SMIA 2012, web mirror)

Packet collections in PCAP-NG format by Teguh P. Alko
http://stuff.rop.io/packets/

Internet Traffic Archive (Berkeley Lab) - mostly tcpdump ASCII output
http://ita.ee.lbl.gov/html/traces.html

WITS: Waikato Internet Traffic Storage (traces in ERF format with headers plus 4 bytes of application data)
http://wand.net.nz/wits/
The FTP site uses rate limiting for IPv4 connections, but no ratelimit for IPv6 connections.

Bro IDS trace files (no application layer data)
ftp://ftp.bro-ids.org/enterprise-traces/hdr-traces05/

SimpleWeb captures (mainly packet headers)
http://www.simpleweb.org/wiki/Traces

Wireless LAN Traces from ACM SIGCOMM'01 (no application layer data)
http://sysnet.ucsd.edu/pawn/sigcomm-trace/

Wireshark Fuzzed Protocol Capures (only fuzzed packets)
ftp://wireshark.org/automated/captures/

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Why do we like PCAP files so much?

Because: PCAP or it didn't happen!

PCAP or it didn't happen