Jan 8, 2014

Sniffing e-mail passwords with Wireshark

 What

Wirehsark filters for retrieving e-mail passwords.

 Problem

I was looking on the internet for wireshark filters to retrieve mail passwords, so I wrote it down here.

 Solution

Sniffing email passwords with Wireshark.

> Open Wireshark.

> Select an interface and start capturing in promiscuous mode.

> To capture credentials from POP apply this filter:
pop.request.command == "USER" || pop.request.command == "PASS"
> To capture credentials from IMAP apply this filter:
imap.request contains "login"
> To capture credentials from SMTP apply this filter:
smtp.req.command == "AUTH"

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