Fingerprinting with Sparta

The next step in our discovery process is fingerprinting, something we talked about earlier in Chapter 5, Fingerprinting. When fingerprinting, we want to uncover more details about the operating system and software services being used. Sparta allows us to continue gathering these details, keeping the details within its interface.

Getting ready

Sparta comes pre-bundled with Kali Linux 2. To use Sparta to perform scans, you will need to have remote systems running network services. In the examples provided, a combination of Linux and Windows systems is used. For more information on setting up systems in a local lab environment, refer to the Installing Metasploitable2 and Installing Windows Server recipes in Chapter 1, Getting Started.

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