i have recently been working through some network forensic challenges from a few locations (http://forensicscontest.com and http://ismellpackets.com/category/pcap/) and wanted to do some network carving (parsing a pcap and getting the files like .exe’s, .jpg’s, etc). to answer some of the questions i wanted to load networkminer on my backtrack 5 r1 box.

fortunately there was a tutorial on how to get networkminer up on linux, but it didn’t fix everything for the newest version of backtrack (specifically, the fonts were off and the menu didn’t show up correctly).

to get networkminer 1.0 up and running on my backtrack 5 r1 VM here is what i did (summary of commands at bottom):

  1. downloaded winetricks and installed the .NET framework, some core fonts, and the GDI+ package
    cd /bin
    wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks
    chmod +x winetricks
    ./winetricks corefonts dotnet20 gdiplus

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