In the good ol’ days to write a credential sniffer you had to spend alot of time learning C and libpcap this was extremely time consuming and no one really wants to go through that.
So today we have GoLang, the statically typed language from google, specifically the gopacket library from google.
Gopacket is a library that introduces packet filtering and capturing to go. It comes with C Bindings for libpcap, C Bindings for pfring, afpacket C Bindings and tcpassembly.
Nov 30, 2020 - 6 min read