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Wireshark suddenly captured lots of traffic without anything running + CPU usage jumped from 0% to 30%. Could somebody interpret what happened by looking at pcap file

asked 2022-04-19 20:51:00 +0000

laurentz1241 gravatar image

updated 2022-04-19 20:53:37 +0000

I use Parrot Security OS. There wasn't anything running except for Wireshark and htop. I left my PC to go upstairs for about 2 minutes and returned. After returning, I saw CPU usage of my PC had been jumping to about 30% and in htop which listed all running processes by percentage of their CPU consumption, I saw dpkg query was taking up the most CPU usage as shown in this screenshot. The screenshot was taken about 20 second after the CPU usage had dropped to its normal state. Checking the pcap file captured by Wireshark, it's like my PC suddenly commanded itself to download and install some software without using the terminal, and everything was done by using CPU rather than Network connection b/c, in the screenshot, the system monitor shows that CPU usage was high while Network usage was low.

As I'm just a layman in Wireshark analysis, could somebody take a look at the capture file and tell me what happened. As I've been cyber-spied on by Vietnam, so it's likely that Vietnam's cyber-spies must have done this.

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answered 2022-04-20 05:04:32 +0000

Jaap gravatar image

Not a Wireshark question. This is the system maintaining itself through unattended upgrades.

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I checked file dpkg.log at /var/log/dpkg.log and don't see anything installed when the strange traffic was being captured by Wireshark https://imgbox.com/V0t1CGXVhttps://imgbox.com/A2jejERM

I also checked files inside folder unattended-upgrades at /var/log/unattended-upgrades and don't see anything installed on the date when the strange thing happened https://imgbox.com/prt5zJKehttps://imgbox.com/GwAgw0Pahttps://imgbox.com/K0Qa3X54

Is all history of unattended upgrades stored in dpkg.log and unattended-upgrades.log and unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log ?

laurentz1241 gravatar imagelaurentz1241 ( 2022-04-20 07:29:42 +0000 )edit

Well, if nothing was installed then the system must have been up to date already. Again, not a Wireshark question, but something to discuss on the parrot OS community

Jaap gravatar imageJaap ( 2022-04-20 11:01:35 +0000 )edit

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