Flower 🌸

Automatic packet analyzer made by Ca' Foscari team (unive) for CyberChallenge attack/defense CTF of 27/06/2018.

This tool was written in less than ten days. Every pull request is welcome!

Presentation of Flower (from min 7:30), and general introduction to CTF at ESC2K18 in italian:

Run with docker

Just run docker-compose up, and after a while you will find flower at http://localhost:3000.

For the flag regex, modify REACT_APP_FLAG_REGEX in docker-compose.yml.

The build will automatically import the test pcap.

To enter in the service to import other pcaps, run docker exec -it flower_flower-python_1 /bin/bash (if flower is in a folder with a different name, modify the prefix after -it). The container share the /shared folder with the host. Put the pcap files inside this folder and use python services/importer.py /shared/pcap_file_here from the container to import pcaps to flower.

Manual installation

git clone https://github.com/secgroup/flower
cd flower
npm install 
pip install -r services/requirements.txt

Setup

Env var to set:

REACT_APP_FLOWER_MONGO ip of the host that will have flower db active (mongodb)
REACT_APP_FLOWER_SERVICES ip of the host that will have services active
REACT_APP_FLAG_REGEX regex that match flags. Mongodb is required on the same machine that run the services. To start it: sudo mongod --dbpath /path/to/mongodb/db --bind_ip 0.0.0.0

Run

Start flower

./run.sh

Start flower services

cd services
./run_ws.sh

Once everything has been started, flower should be accessible at the address of the machine that started it on port 3000.

Pcap import

You must first install pynids from here. The pip version is outdated! Good luck with the installation. Then, you can import pcaps into mongodb by executing the provided script importer.py as follows:

cd services
./importer.py pcap_file.pcap

You can find a test_pcap in services/test_pcap. For a quick demo, run ./importer.py test_pcap/dump-2018-06-27_13:25:31.pcap

Security tips

If you are going to use flower in a CTF, remember to set up the firewall in the most appropriate way, as the current implementation does not use other security techniques.