Network Mapper (Nmap) is the most popular cyber security scanner . This is used for finding hosts and services in a network. It was written by Gordon Lyon and published in September 1997.
This tool have lot of features and can do lots of tests like finding the OS, services version, , it also can do brute force default logins and many more thing.
NMAP has come common type of scan they are following :
Now we Type Following command to start Nmap and see options:-
Following screenshot shows the output of the command :
To perform a basic scan we use the following command :
The following screenshot shows the output of the command:
Where x.x.x.x is the ip address of that system we want to scan. and -Pn means that we are doing a ping request first to check the host is up or down and -sV used will list the running services on the found open ports for us.
Or we can use another parameter -A which can automatically performs OS detection, versions, script scan and traceroute. The command is following :
We can not complete NMAP in only post so we need a series of posts. This is the first one others are following:
This tool have lot of features and can do lots of tests like finding the OS, services version, , it also can do brute force default logins and many more thing.
NMAP has come common type of scan they are following :
- TCP scan
- SYN stealth scan
- SCTP INIP scan
- UDP scan
- Ping scan
- Idle scan
Now we Type Following command to start Nmap and see options:-
Following screenshot shows the output of the command :
To perform a basic scan we use the following command :
The following screenshot shows the output of the command:
Where x.x.x.x is the ip address of that system we want to scan. and -Pn means that we are doing a ping request first to check the host is up or down and -sV used will list the running services on the found open ports for us.
Or we can use another parameter -A which can automatically performs OS detection, versions, script scan and traceroute. The command is following :
We can not complete NMAP in only post so we need a series of posts. This is the first one others are following: