NetworkMiner 1.1! Network Forensic Analysis Tool (NFAT) for Windows

NetworkMiner is a Network Forensic Analysis Tool (NFAT) for Windows. NetworkMiner can be used as a passive network sniffer/packet capturing tool in order to detect operating systems, sessions, hostnames, open ports etc. without putting any traffic on the network. NetworkMiner can also parse PCAP files for off-line analysis and to regenerate/reassemble transmitted files and certificates from PCAP files.


NetworkMiner collects data (such as forensic evidence) about hosts on the network rather than to collect data regarding the traffic on the network. The main user interface view is host centric (information grouped per host) rather than packet centric (information showed as a list of packets/frames).

NetworkMiner has, since the first release in 2007, become popular tool among incident response teams as well as law enforcement. NetworkMiner is today used by companies and organizations all over the world. 


This is the list of changes for NetworkMiner 1.1:

• Extraction of parameters sent to Google Analytics into NetworkMiner’s “Host Details”. These parameters include: screen resolution, color depth, browser language and flash version.
• You can drag-and-drop one or multiple pcap files onto NetworkMiner.exe to have it start up and begin loading the dropped pcap files. You can also submit your pcap files as arguments from the command line.
• Multiple SMB/CIFS and NetBIOS improvements, such as support for multiple simultaneous SMB file transfers over the same TCP session as well as support for NetBIOS Session Service keep-alive messages.
• Added support for Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) frames in pcap files.
• Improved stability when loading pcap files. Thanks to psteier for identifying this bug.