

Wireshark's display filter a bar located right above the column display section. Proper use of the Wireshark display filter can help people quickly find these indicators. Security professionals often document indicators related to Windows infection traffic such as URLs, domain names, IP addresses, protocols, and ports.

These indicators are often referred to as Indicators of Compromise (IOCs). Indicators consist of information derived from network traffic that relates to the infection. These infections can follow many different paths before the malware, usually a Windows executable file, infects a Windows host. This tutorial uses examples of Windows infection traffic from commodity malware distributed through mass-distribution methods like malicious spam (malspam) or web traffic.
