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 an IMAP server

IMAP servers may support different capabilities. There is a command named Capability that allows clients to list these supported mail server capabilities, and we can use Nmap to automate this task.

This recipe shows you how to list the capabilities of an IMAP server with Nmap.

How to do it...

Open your favorite terminal and enter the following Nmap command:

$ nmap -p143,993 --script imap-capabilities <target>

The results will be included in the script output section:

993/tcp   openssl/imap Dovecot imapd
|_imap-capabilities: LOGIN-REFERRALS completed AUTH=PLAIN OK Capability UNSELECT THREAD=REFERENCES AUTH=LOGINA0001IMAP4rev1 NAMESPACE SORT CHILDREN LITERAL+ IDLE SASL-IRMULTIAPPEND

How it works...

The imap-capabilities script was submitted by Brandon Enright, and it attempts to list the supported functionality of IMAP servers using the Capability command defined in RFC 3501.

The -p143,993 ...