By this time, you should have installed and are familiar yourselves with wireshark/tcpdump or equivalent packet sniffers. In this assignment, you will need to capture the network traffic while you make a connection from your computer/laptop to our Canvas course page and download a file from the course module to your own computer and accomplish the following tasks: 

Capture the data related to the network session you initiated and display the output (use screen capture to show the results). You can start capture prior to making the connection in your web browser.

Filter the packets that are related to UDP

Filter the packets that are related to TCP

Find out the following information and show screenshots of the captured data o What are the IP address and TCP port number used by your computer (client) to make the connection to Canvas?

2. What is the IP address and TCP port number for the Canvas server?
4. Identify the three-way handshake for the connection establishment and explain in detail the sequence number of the TCP SYN segment from the client (your computer), the ack number and sequence number of the server (Canvas), what is the header length, the flags of each packet involved in the three-way handshake.
6. How does the window size change from connection establishment to file transfer?
8. Describe the timeline of these events.

Extra credit (5 points): Research on either "browser hijacking attacks" or "Log4j attacks." Use your own words to explain browser hijacking attack and how to prevent it.

Submission format: you have the option of submitting this assignment as a report in a single pdf file or record your program output and screenshots with your explanations as a video submission.