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Nmap: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Paulino Calderon
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Nmap: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Paulino Calderon

Overview of this book

This is the second edition of ‘Nmap 6: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook’. A book aimed for anyone who wants to master Nmap and its scripting engine through practical tasks for system administrators and penetration testers. Besides introducing the most powerful features of Nmap and related tools, common security auditing tasks for local and remote networks, web applications, databases, mail servers, Microsoft Windows machines and even ICS SCADA systems are explained step by step with exact commands and argument explanations. The book starts with the basic usage of Nmap and related tools like Ncat, Ncrack, Ndiff and Zenmap. The Nmap Scripting Engine is thoroughly covered through security checks used commonly in real-life scenarios applied for different types of systems. New chapters for Microsoft Windows and ICS SCADA systems were added and every recipe was revised. This edition reflects the latest updates and hottest additions to the Nmap project to date. The book will also introduce you to Lua programming and NSE script development allowing you to extend further the power of Nmap.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
13
Brute Force Password Auditing Options
17
References and Additional Reading

Generating PDF reports with fop


Users may also generate Nmap scan reports in PDF format. While Nmap does not support generating PDF reports out of the box, we could use a tool named fop to achieve this task.

The following recipe will show you how to generate PDF scan reports.

Getting ready

Format Object Printer (FOP) is an Apache project used in this task to convert from XML-FO to a PDF file. You need to install this software before continuing. Please download it from http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/xmlgraphics/fop and place the binary in your system path.

You will also need a style sheet shipped with Nmap. Please locate the nmap-fo.xsl file in your Nmap installation directory. If you don't have it, you may download it from https://github.com/nmap/nmap/blob/master/docs/nmap-fo.xsl.

How to do it...

Scan your target and save the output in the XML mode:

$nmap -oX scanme.xml scanme.nmap.org

Now we use fop to apply the XSL style sheet and generate our PDF report with the following command:

$fop ...