# Bro BitTorrent

**URL:** <https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-bittorrent/3480>\
**Category:** Zeek\
**Created:** [February 7, 2015, 2:44am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-bittorrent/3480 "2015-02-07T02:44:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Kang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Kang](https://community.zeek.org/u/Kang)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 2:44am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-bittorrent/3480/1 "2015-02-07T02:44:52Z")

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Are there any extensions to bro or special options that allow you to  
detect BitTorrent?

> From what I've seen it's never detected, instead classified as having

an unknown service.

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**Author:** ![Seth\_Hall3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Seth\_Hall3](https://community.zeek.org/u/Seth_Hall3)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 4:08am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-bittorrent/3480/2 "2015-02-07T04:08:58Z")

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There is a bittorrent analyzer but it has a few issues and there aren’t base Bro scripts for it right now.

&nbsp;&nbsp;.Seth

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/zeek/original/1X/f09d732bc2cc7c7cc7e35db67cf4e1d5233ce7a7.png) [@system](https://community.zeek.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 3:42pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-bittorrent/3480/3 "2022-05-06T15:42:27Z")

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