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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

Chapter 11. Writing Your Own NSE Scripts

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes to get you started on writing NSE scripts:

  • Making HTTP requests to identify vulnerable supermicro IPMI/BMC controllers
  • Sending UDP payloads using NSE sockets
  • Generating vulnerability reports in NSE scripts
  • Exploiting a path traversal vulnerability with NSE
  • Writing brute force password auditing scripts
  • Crawling web servers to detect vulnerabilities
  • Working with NSE threads, condition variables, and mutexes in NSE
  • Writing a new NSE library in Lua
  • Writing a new NSE library in C/C++
  • Getting your scripts ready for submission