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CTU-13

license: see source Live malware

Thirteen labelled botnet scenarios captured at CTU Prague in 2011 — botnet PCAPs plus bidirectional NetFlows of mixed botnet, normal and background traffic. The archive also includes the malware executables used.

Summary

Formats
pcapbinetflow
License
license: see source
Added
2026-09-10

Get it

From the project’s own instructions where it documents any; otherwise a plain clone.

  1. Download from stratosphereips.org ↗

    Run this inside the isolated analysis VM, never on your own machine. Follow the repository's own download instructions from there.

Use it with

Commands are curated, not yet run by us.

Suricata — Replay the capture through your ruleset and write eve.json to out/.

sample.pcap
$ suricata -r sample.pcap -l out/

Zeek — Parse the capture offline; Zeek writes conn.log, dns.log, http.log and friends to the current directory.

sample.pcap
$ zeek -r sample.pcap

Wireshark — Print a one-line summary per packet with tshark, Wireshark's command-line reader.

sample.pcap
$ tshark -r sample.pcap

Snort3 — Read the capture with your Snort 3 configuration and print alerts to the console.

sample.pcap
$ snort -c /usr/local/etc/snort/snort.lua -r sample.pcap -A alert_fast
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