impacket vs dpkt

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impacket		dpkt
	Project
25	Mentions	1
12,694	Stars	1,060
2.0%	Growth	-
8.2	Activity	0.0
3 days ago	Latest Commit	about 2 months ago
Python	Language	Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

impacket

Posts with mentions or reviews of impacket. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-26.

HackTheBox - Writeup Authority [Retired]
3 projects | dev.to | 26 Dec 2023
Socket Programming - Spoofing IP Address
1 project | /r/learnpython | 5 Jun 2023
SMB Signing question
2 projects | /r/netsecstudents | 3 May 2023

https://github.com/fortra/impacket/blob/master/examples/ntlmrelayx.py. (see the docs at the top of the program)
How to create SMB server from python?
1 project | /r/learnprogramming | 11 Apr 2023

The first result on google for "Python SMB server" literally has a working example
Is there a way to transfer large files from a victim machine to my local Kali machine via the powershell php script method?
2 projects | /r/oscp | 20 Feb 2023
Attn: pen testers.. What is your favorite tool?
1 project | /r/cybersecurity | 16 Feb 2023
Impacket
1 project | /r/ItalyInformatica | 15 Feb 2023
Does anyone else get this error when trying to run the following command in the attackingkerberos room" sudo python3 GetUserSPNs.py controller.local/Machine1:Password1 -dc-ip (ip_address) - request
1 project | /r/tryhackme | 3 Aug 2022

Impacket is now in python 3 also. https://github.com/SecureAuthCorp/impacket
path to domain admin
2 projects | /r/Pentesting | 24 May 2022

Check out impacket's ntlmrelayx: https://github.com/SecureAuthCorp/impacket/blob/master/examples/ntlmrelayx.py
Impacket - collection of Python classes for working with network protocols.
1 project | /r/github_trends | 20 May 2022

dpkt

Posts with mentions or reviews of dpkt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-08.

Scapy: Low level packet hacking toolkit for Python
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 May 2022

Scapy is great, but if you need only something simple, it's hard to go past dpkt https://github.com/kbandla/dpkt

What are some alternatives?

When comparing impacket and dpkt you can also consider the following projects:

CrackMapExec - A swiss army knife for pentesting networks

tahoma_nmsg - Pure-python protobuf + nmsg implementation as a scapy dissector

proxychains - proxychains - a tool that forces any TCP connection made by any given application to follow through proxy like TOR or any other SOCKS4, SOCKS5 or HTTP(S) proxy. Supported auth-types: "user/pass" for SOCKS4/5, "basic" for HTTP.

Rubeus - Trying to tame the three-headed dog.

impacket - Impacket is a collection of Python classes for working with network protocols. [Moved to: https://github.com/SecureAuthCorp/impacket]

ms08_067 - Updating MS08-067 Python exploit script

Win7Blue - Scan/Exploit - EternalBlue MS17-010 - Windows 7 32/64 Bits

FreeIPA - Mirror of FreeIPA, an integrated security information management solution

middleware - TrueNAS CORE/Enterprise/SCALE Middleware Git Repository

TheAlgorithms - All Algorithms implemented in Python

RITM - Roast in the Middle

updog - Updog is a replacement for Python's SimpleHTTPServer. It allows uploading and downloading via HTTP/S, can set ad hoc SSL certificates and use http basic auth.