Netzob 0.3.3 released¶

We are pleased to announce a new release of Netzob: 0.3.3, codename "Flying Razorback".

This release greatly enhances the partitioning performances (notably thanks to a new contributor, Franck Roland) and offers many useful features such as a new visualization layer, a new search engine, more data manipulation functions, and import/export of projects and traces.

In addition to Debian and Gentoo packages, a Windows installer is also released thanks to Goulven Guiheux.
As usual, this new release (including its packages) is available at : http://www.netzob.org/download.

All contributors to this release:¶

• Franck Roland
• Georges Bossert
• Frédéric Guihéry
• Goulven Guiheux
• Olivier Tétard
• Alexandre Pigné
• Maxime Olivier

Changes since 0.3.2¶

Some of the highlights:

• Graphical interface
  • Visualization and encoding filters
  • Mathematical filters (Base64, GZIP, BZ2)
  • Dedicated Search View
  • Preview of data rendering in contextual menu
  • Support format visualization at the symbol level
• Partitioning
  • Alignment and sequencing by field
  • Execute alignment on specified symbols
  • Split field by the right
  • Allow the partitioning of messages with specified boundaries
  • Allow partitioning at the project and symbol level
  • Similarity score based on number of common dynamic elements
  • Optimization of Needleman : don't repeat the same computation twice
  • Implement native UPGMA algorithm
• Grammar inference
  • Infer the grammar of a network client
• Project/trace management
  • Export / Import projects
  • Importer for XML formated traces

For a complete list of new features and bug fixes, please visit the online changelog available at: http://www.netzob.org/index.php?page=changelog#0.3.3.

Netzob¶

Netzob is an opensource tool which supports the expert in its operations of reverse engineering, evaluation and simulation of communication protocols. Its main goals are to help security evaluators to:

• Assess the robustness of proprietary or unknown protocols implementation.
• Simulate realistic communications to test third-party products (IDS, firewalls, etc.).
• Create an open source implementation of a proprietary or unknown protocol.

Netzob supports the expert in a semi-automatic inferring process of any communication protocol. Hence, it includes the necessaries to passively learn the vocabulary of a protocol and to actively infer its grammar. The learnt protocol can afterward be simulated.

Downloads and links¶

Download page: http://www.netzob.org/download#NETZOB_0.3.3.

More details on the official website:

• Official website: http://www.netzob.org
• Download page: http://www.netzob.org/download
• Mailing list: https://lists.netzob.org/wws/info/user
• Developer's room: https://dev.netzob.org
• IRC: #netzob on Freenode
• Twitter: @Netzob