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Nmap 6: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook

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Nmap 6: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook

Overview of this book

Nmap is a well known security tool used by penetration testers and system administrators. The Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) has added the possibility to perform additional tasks using the collected host information. Tasks like advanced fingerprinting and service discovery, information gathering, and detection of security vulnerabilities."Nmap 6: Network exploration and security auditing cookbook" will help you master Nmap and its scripting engine. You will learn how to use this tool to do a wide variety of practical tasks for pentesting and network monitoring. Finally, after harvesting the power of NSE, you will also learn how to write your own NSE scripts."Nmap 6: Network exploration and security auditing cookbook" is a book full of practical knowledge for every security consultant, administrator or enthusiast looking to master Nmap. The book overviews the most important port scanning and host discovery techniques supported by Nmap. You will learn how to detect mis-configurations in web, mail and database servers and also how to implement your own monitoring system. The book also covers tasks for reporting, scanning numerous hosts, vulnerability detection and exploitation, and its strongest aspect; information gathering.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Nmap 6: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
References
Index

Checking if a host is known for malicious activities


System administrators hosting users often struggle with monitoring their servers against malware distribution. Nmap allows us to systematically check if a host is known for distributing malware or being used in phishing attacks, with some help from the Google Safe Browsing API.

This recipe shows system administrators how to check if a host has been flagged by Google's Safe Browsing Service as being used in phishing attacks or distributing malware.

Getting ready

The script http-google-malware depends on Google's Safe Browsing service and it requires you to register to get an API key. Register at http://code.google.com/apis/safebrowsing/key_signup.html.

How to do it...

Open your favorite terminal and type:

$nmap -p80 --script http-google-malware --script-args http-google-malware.api=<API> <target>

The script will return a message indicating if the server is known by Google's Safe Browsing for distributing malware or being used in...