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Network Scanning Cookbook

You're reading from   Network Scanning Cookbook Practical network security using Nmap and Nessus 7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789346480
Length 304 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Network Vulnerability Scanning 2. Understanding Network Scanning Tools FREE CHAPTER 3. Port Scanning 4. Vulnerability Scanning 5. Configuration Audits 6. Report Analysis and Confirmation 7. Understanding the Customization and Optimization of Nessus and Nmap 8. Network Scanning for IoT, SCADA/ICS 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

How to detect and bypass network protection systems

The basic function of Nmap is to generate custom packets and analyze their response once they are sent to the remote hosts. This sometimes is not allowed by network protection systems such as firewalls and intrusion prevention and detection systems. In this recipe, we will discuss some of the methods that can be used to bypass these protections:

  • -f (Fragment packets): Most firewalls perform stateful and stateless packet inspection for which they examine the content of the packets and decide whether to allow the packet or drop it based on its contents. In order to bypass this, Nmap provides an option to fragment the packets so that the network device will not be able to construct the packet to read the correct contents, thereby bypassing the protection.
  • --mtu (Maximum transmission unit specification): This works similar to the...
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