Skills Arkime Traffic Analysis

Arkime Traffic Analysis

v20260317
implementing-network-traffic-analysis-with-arkime
Deploy Arkime to capture, query, and analyze network sessions, download PCAPs, and flag beaconing, DNS tunneling, or TLS anomalies for proactive threat hunting.
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Overview

Instructions

  1. Install dependencies: pip install requests
  2. Configure Arkime viewer URL and credentials.
  3. Run the agent to query Arkime sessions and analyze traffic:
    • Search sessions by IP, port, protocol, or expression
    • Download PCAP data for forensic analysis
    • Detect C2 beaconing via connection interval analysis
    • Identify DNS tunneling through query length statistics
    • Flag connections to known-bad TLS certificate issuers
python scripts/agent.py --arkime-url https://arkime.local:8005 --user admin --password secret --output arkime_report.json

Examples

Beaconing Detection

Source: 10.1.2.50 -> 185.220.101.34:443
Sessions: 288 over 24 hours
Avg interval: 300s, Jitter: 4.2%
Verdict: HIGH confidence C2 beaconing (jitter < 5%)
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Category Uncategorized
Name implementing-network-traffic-analysis-with-arkime
Version v20260317
Size 8.75KB
Updated At 2026-03-18
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