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Nmap Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook, Third Edition

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Paulino Calderon (@calderpwn on Twitter) is the cofounder of Websec, a company offering information security consulting services based in Mexico and Canada. When he is not traveling to a security conference or conducting on-site consulting for Fortune 500 companies, he spends peaceful days in Cozumel, a beautiful small island in the Caribbean, learning new technologies, conducting big data experiments, developing new tools, and finding bugs in software. Paulino is active in the open source community, and his contributions are used by millions of people in the information security industry. In 2011, Paulino joined the Nmap team during the Google Summer of Code to work on the project as an NSE developer. He focused on improving the web scanning capabilities of Nmap, and he has kept contributing to the project since then. In addition, he has been a mentor for students who focused on vulnerability detection during the Google Summer of Code 2015 and 2017. He has published Nmap 6: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook and Mastering the Nmap Scripting Engine, which cover practical tasks with Nmap and NSE development in depth. He loves attending information security conferences, and he has given talks and participated in workshops in dozens of events in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, and Curacao.
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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 1. Appendix Β: Brute-Force Password Auditing Options 2. Appendix C: NSE Debugging 3. Appendix D: Additional Output Options 4. Appendix Ε: Introduction to Lua 5. Appendix F: References and Additional Reading

Enumerating Modbus devices

Modbus TCP/IP is a communication protocol used for transmitting information by many SCADA devices. It is considered one of the most popular open protocols and it is possible to find valid slave IDs and obtain information about the device and software remotely.

This recipe shows you how to enumerate Modbus Slave IDs (SIDs) with Nmap.

How to do it...

Open your terminal and enter the following Nmap command:

$ nmap -Pn -sT -p502 --script modbus-discover <target>

By default, the modbus-discover script will obtain the first SID device information, as shown next. The information displayed depends on the device's response:

PORT STATE SERVICE
502/tcp open    modbus
| modbus-discover:
|    sid0x0:
|_   Slave ID data: \xB4\xFFLMB3.0.3

How it works...

The modbus-discover script enumerates Modbus devices and their SID information. It was written by Alexander Rudakov to improve the...

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Paulino Calderon (@calderpwn on Twitter) is the cofounder of Websec, a company offering information security consulting services based in Mexico and Canada. When he is not traveling to a security conference or conducting on-site consulting for Fortune 500 companies, he spends peaceful days in Cozumel, a beautiful small island in the Caribbean, learning new technologies, conducting big data experiments, developing new tools, and finding bugs in software. Paulino is active in the open source community, and his contributions are used by millions of people in the information security industry. In 2011, Paulino joined the Nmap team during the Google Summer of Code to work on the project as an NSE developer. He focused on improving the web scanning capabilities of Nmap, and he has kept contributing to the project since then. In addition, he has been a mentor for students who focused on vulnerability detection during the Google Summer of Code 2015 and 2017. He has published Nmap 6: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook and Mastering the Nmap Scripting Engine, which cover practical tasks with Nmap and NSE development in depth. He loves attending information security conferences, and he has given talks and participated in workshops in dozens of events in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, and Curacao.
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