Your column layout should look like this now. Right click the column heading again and select Align Left at the top. It looks better, but the port number is right justified and everything else is left. Now to put these in the correct order, click and drag our new Port column and drop it under the Destination column. Select Dest Port (unresolved) so we see the port number and not the resolved protocol. Double click on the Title field and enter Dest Port, then double click on the Type field and click the drop down. Next, click the + symbol at the bottom left to add a column. To do that, right click on any column heading and select Column Preferences. I don’t need Wireshark to tell me the protocol, I would rather see the port number being used.

Next, let’s add our Destination Port number. Again, not really useful and takes up space we will need later. One more thing you need to do while you are here is to change automatic to seconds, otherwise it will show you the second accuracy to about 8 decimal places. Go to View > Time Display Format > and select UTC Date and Time of Day. In forensics everything is set to UTC so I use that as my default. Now we need to fix the Time column because the number of seconds since capture is not really helpful. To achieve this, right click on the column heading and either select Remove Column or uncheck the column to hide it. If it is ever needed I can always unhide the column. I hide the source column because I am typically analyzing traffic from a single computer so I already know the source. I remove No., Protocol, and Length columns and hide the Source column. Here is what we are starting from: Wireshark default columns To solve this I removed several columns and added some that I needed. The default columns in Wireshark are great to get you started, but you will find they are lacking useful information rather quickly. If you click on this you can change profiles easily, but for now, leave it set to the new one you just created.

You will notice in the bottom right corner of the window, it has changed the profile name to the new one you just created. Highlight Default and then click the right button that shows two small squares. We want to make a copy of the default profile and name it something meaningful. To get started, click on View > Configuration Profiles Wireshark configuration profile If you choose not to do this, you can skip ahead to the Column Settings section. If you want to setup different profiles, then these are the steps to accomplish that. This is a completely optional step since most people work with a single profile and editing the default is perfectly fine. Since we are going to be making several customizations to the packet list window, we can create a new profile to save these so the default view remains intact. A lot of these settings can be found on his website as well. In this post I will cover some of the most useful settings I discovered and how I setup Wireshark. Use the following combination to show the wireless sent to a wireless client without retransmissions : (wlan.fc.retry = 0) & (wlan.ra = )Īnd to show with retransmissions : (wlan.fc.retry = 1) & (wlan.I recently watched a series of really good videos from Brad Duncan, the man behind, and my initial takeaway was that setting up Wireshark properly will lead to a much better experience and greater success when hunting for malware traffic. Use 1 to show the retransmissions : wlan.fc.retry = 1 To show the WLAN Frame has been transmitted without re-transmission : wlan.fc.retry = 0

= 7 - Network Control (Voice)Ĭheck retransmissions : įilter on Association Frames : wlan.fc = 0x0000įilter on Probe Request : wlan.fc = 0x4000įilter on Probe Response : wlan.fc = 0x5000įilter on Wildcard Probe Requests and Response : = 0.

On seeing the above I decided to filter just on the Priority Field under the QoS Control: Then looking at the screenshot it shows when you expand the QoS Control under the QoS Data Field that it is best effort

To filter the frames just to show the QoS data frames use the following filter : wlan.fc.type_subtype = 0x0028.

Looking at an example of a QoS data Frame: For reference there is the official page on Wireshark Link : During the reading of CWNA and looking at packet capture there are some useful filters that can be used.

Best wireshark filters