18. Public Datasets (PCAPs)

Collections of public datasets and packet captures for testing and profiling. Not to be confused with Suricata datasets.

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Cyber-focused datasets from MIT, including DARPA datasets.

MAWI Samplepoint-F

WIDE transit-link traces (packet headers only; no payloads).

MACCDC

Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition traffic captures.

Netresec

Public pcap files for network forensics and malware analysis.

Wireshark Sample Captures

Curated sample captures useful for protocol testing.

Security Onion PCAP collection

Collection of links and downloads for lab datasets.

Stratosphere IPS Malware Capture Facility

Malware-oriented captures with related dataset material.

UNSW-NB15

UNSW Cyber Range dataset with IXIA-generated benign/attack traffic, raw pcap captures, and labeled flow-feature CSV files.

CIC-IDS2017

Intrusion Detection Evaluation Dataset

CSE-CIC-IDS2018

CSE-CIC-IDS2018 on AWS: A collaborative project between the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) & the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity (CIC).

CIC-DDoS2019

Dataset containing DDoS attacks resembling true real world data.