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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Chapter 14: Exploiting Vulnerabilities with the Nmap Scripting Engine

While Nmap has never tried to become an exploitation framework, it does have several features that make it a viable option. Transparent parallelism in network I/O operations allows speed and efficiency. Quick prototyping in Lua allows exploit writers to work with protocols or applications having many Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) libraries available to save development time. NSE scripts will be ready to run on any system that can run Nmap. And they can run against entire network ranges or large lists of targets, making them ideal for vulnerability detection.

Hopefully, the previous chapter introduced you to the NSE script format, common functions, and libraries. This chapter will teach you how to apply that to vulnerability detection and exploitation within Nmap.

In this chapter, you will learn about the following: