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Kali Linux 2 - Assuring Security by Penetration Testing - Third Edition

By : Gerard Johansen, Lee Allen, Tedi Heriyanto, Shakeel Ali
Book Image

Kali Linux 2 - Assuring Security by Penetration Testing - Third Edition

By: Gerard Johansen, Lee Allen, Tedi Heriyanto, Shakeel Ali

Overview of this book

Kali Linux is a comprehensive penetration testing platform with advanced tools to identify, detect, and exploit the vulnerabilities uncovered in the target network environment. With Kali Linux, you can apply appropriate testing methodology with defined business objectives and a scheduled test plan, resulting in a successful penetration testing project engagement. Kali Linux – Assuring Security by Penetration Testing is a fully focused, structured book providing guidance on developing practical penetration testing skills by demonstrating cutting-edge hacker tools and techniques with a coherent, step-by-step approach. This book offers you all of the essential lab preparation and testing procedures that reflect real-world attack scenarios from a business perspective, in today's digital age.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Kali Linux 2 – Assuring Security by Penetration Testing Third Edition
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Unicornscan


Unicornscan is an information gathering and correlation engine tool. It is useful for introducing stimulus and measuring the response from a TCP/IP device. Unicornscan has the following features:

  • Asynchronous stateless TCP port scanning

  • Asynchronous stateless TCP banner grabbing

  • Asynchronous UDP port scanning

  • Active and passive remote OS and application identification

To start Unicornscan, use the console to execute the following command:

# unicornscan -h

This will display all the options with their descriptions.

The main difference between Unicornscan and other similar tools is that it is a very fast and scalable port scanner. From our experience, the scanning of UDP ports will take a long time to finish, especially if you want to test all the ports for a network. Unicornscan can help you with this problem.

In Unicornscan, you can define how many packets you want to send per second. The higher the packets per second (PPS) value, the faster the scan process; but this may cause an overload...