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Kali Linux Network Scanning Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux Network Scanning Cookbook A Step-by-Step Guide leveraging Custom Scripts and Integrated Tools in Kali Linux

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
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ISBN-13 9781787287907
Length 634 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Michael Hixon Michael Hixon
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Reconnaissance 3. Discovery 4. Port Scanning 5. Fingerprinting 6. Vulnerability Scanning 7. Denial of Service 8. Working with Burp Suite 9. Web Application Scanning 10. Attacking the Browser with BeEF 11. Working with Sparta 12. Automating Kali Tools

UDP port scanning

Because TCP is a more commonly used transport-layer protocol, services that operate over UDP are frequently forgotten. Despite the natural tendency to overlook UDP services, it is absolutely critical that these services be enumerated to acquire a complete understanding of the attack surface of any given target. UDP scanning can often be challenging, tedious, and time consuming. The first three recipes in this chapter will cover how to perform a UDP port scan with different tools in Kali Linux. To understand how these tools work, it is important to understand the two different approaches to UDP scanning that will be used. One technique, which will be addressed in the first recipe, is to rely exclusively on ICMP port-unreachable responses. This type of scanning relies on the assumption that any UDP ports that are not associated with a live service will return an ICMP port-unreachable response, and...

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