🕵️ Wireshark Local RAG Analyst

A fully local, self-learning Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline for analyzing Wireshark .pcap logs using local LLMs — with built-in support for Hugging Face models, learning feedback, and REST API access.

🚀 Features

• 📁 Drop-in Folder Watcher: Automatically processes .pcap logs when dropped into a folder.
• 🔍 Protocol-Aware Preprocessing: Extracts HTTP, DNS, TCP, and other traffic.
• 🧠 Self-Learning Engine: Remembers helpful answers and improves responses over time.
• 📚 RAG Pipeline: Uses local vector database (FAISS) with sentence-transformer embeddings.
• 🤖 Local LLM Integration: Supports both:
  • 🧱 Ollama-based LLMs (e.g., LLaMA, Mistral, GPT4All)
  • 🤗 Hugging Face models (e.g., Mistral-7B, Zephyr, Falcon)
• 🌐 API Access (MCP-style): Query the system over HTTP from other clients.
• 💻 Extensible CLI: Flexible CLI and script interface for querying and development.
• 📦 PyPI-Ready: Fully packageable and publishable as a pip package.
• ✅ CI/CD Support: GitHub Actions pipelines for testing and PyPI publishing.

📂 Project Structure

. 
   ├── app/                # Core logic
   ├── scripts/            # CLI scripts
   ├── config/             # Config files
   ├── data/               # Vector DB & learned responses
   ├── logs/               # Input PCAPs
   ├── processed/          # Archived PCAPs
   ├── .github/workflows/  # CI/CD workflows

⚙️ Installation

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/pkbythebay29/wireshark-local-rag-analyst.git
cd wireshark-local-rag-analyst

2. Install Dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Configuration

Edit config/config.yaml:

protocol_filter: ["http", "dns"]
learning: true

llm_backend: "ollama"       # or "huggingface"
llm_model: "llama3"         # or "mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.1"

vector_db_path: "./data/faiss.index"
learned_store: "./data/learned_data.jsonl"

4. Usage

wireshark-watch

or

python scripts/run_pipeline.py

Drop .pcap files into the logs/ folder — they will be processed automatically.

#5. Ask questions

wireshark-query

or

python scripts/query_logs.py

Example questions:

• What HTTP requests failed with 404?
• Show DNS queries to suspicious domains.
• Were there any TCP handshakes that failed?

6. Use as a REST API (MCP server)

python -m app.mcp_server

curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/query \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"query": "Show me failed DNS requests"}'

7. 🤗 Hugging Face Model Support

You can fork, fine-tune, or use any Hugging Face model by editing config.yaml

8. Acknowledgements

🙏 Acknowledgements

This project stands on the shoulders of open-source giants:

   Wireshark/tshark – For deep packet inspection

   FAISS – Vector search from Meta

   Sentence Transformers – Fast embeddings from Hugging Face

   Ollama – Local model hosting made easy

   Transformers – Hugging Face's interface to modern LLMs

   Watchdog, FastAPI, Uvicorn, and many more

Thank you to all the contributors making open-source incredible.

9. 🗺️ Roadmap

See ROADMAP.md for planned features and timeline.

#8. License 📜 License MIT