FTP packet analysis

{{ SECURITY Network packet Forensic }} 

 

 Chapter_4 : FTP packet analysis

• Port TCP 21 (User athentication, sending the commands), TCP 20 (Sending the response) 

• Ethernet II frame, or Ethernet Version 2,^[f] or DIX frame is the most common type in use today, as it is often used directly by the Internet Protocol.

• TCP Flags
• ACK (Acknowledge) : with same sequence number from the sender + len of the data at the TCP layer
  
• SYN (Synchronize) : is used during session setup to agree on initial sequence numbers (random)
  
• FIN (Finish) : graceful session close (no more data)
  
• RST (Reset) : abnormal session disconnection
  
• PSH (Push) : push forces data delivery without waiting for buffers to fill
  
• URG (Urgent) 

• Analyze > Follow TCP Stream

• Statistics > Flow Graph

 

 

 References  

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/169292

http://www.tamos.net/~rhay/overhead/ip-packet-overhead.htm

TCP IP version : RFC 765 (June 1980) and RFC 959 (October 1985)

RFC 2228 (June 1997) proposes security extensions  

FTPS : RFC 4217