This guide outlines a systematic approach to analyzing packet captures (PCAPs) for security investigation. As analysts, our goal is to identify potential security incidents, understand attack patterns, and determine the scope and impact of suspicious network activity.

Before diving into analysis, address these key questions:

• What is the time range of the capture?
• What prompted this PCAP analysis (alert, incident, routine monitoring)?

The following code is for scraping content from websites and extracting just the words. This is useful for being able to feed web content into other processes.

This can be accomplished in a three step process.

1. Get the raw html content using the requests library
2. Feed the .text results of step one into the BeautifulSoup and extract the text with .get_text(). This will strip all the html from the content and return and unstructured string.
3. The string that is returned will need some heavy sanitization.
   1. Strip the blank lines with a python filter

   lines = filter(lambda x: x.strip(), text.splitlines())