You're reading from Nmap Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook, Third Edition Network discovery and security scanning at your fingertips

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838649357

Length 436 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Nmap

Concepts

Network Security

Author (1):

Paulino Calderon

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Nmap Fundamentals

2. Chapter 2: Getting Familiar with Nmap's Family FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Network Scanning

4. Chapter 4: Reconnaissance Tasks

5. Chapter 5: Scanning Web Servers

6. Chapter 6: Scanning Databases

7. Chapter 7: Scanning Mail Servers

8. Chapter 8: Scanning Windows Systems

9. Chapter 9: Scanning ICS/SCADA Systems

10. Chapter 10: Scanning Mainframes

11. Chapter 11: Optimizing Scans

12. Chapter 12: Generating Scan Reports

13. Chapter 13: Writing Your Own NSE Scripts

14. Chapter 14: Exploiting Vulnerabilities with the Nmap Scripting Engine

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix A: HTTP, HTTP Pipelining, and Web Crawling Configuration Options

HTTP user agent

1. Appendix Β: Brute-Force Password Auditing Options

Brute modes

2. Appendix C: NSE Debugging

3. Appendix D: Additional Output Options

4. Appendix Ε: Introduction to Lua

5. Appendix F: References and Additional Reading

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Retrieving the capabilities of a POP3 server

POP3 mail servers may support different capabilities defined in RFC 2449. Using the pop3 command, we can list them and, thanks to Nmap, we can automate this task and include this service information in our scan results.

This recipe will teach you how to list the capabilities of a POP3 mail server with Nmap.

How to do it...

Open your favorite terminal and enter the following Nmap command:

$ nmap -p110 --script pop3-capabilities <target>

A list of server capabilities will be included in the script output section:

PORT STATE SERVICE
110/tcp open    pop3
|_pop3-capabilities: USER CAPAUIDL TOP OK(K) RESP-CODES PIPELINING STLSSASL(PLAIN LOGIN)

How it works...

The pop3-capabilities script was submitted by Philip Pickering, and it attempts to retrieve the capabilities of POP3 and POP3S servers. It uses the CAPA POP3 command to ask the server for a list of supported commands. This script also attempts...