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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

Brute forcing web applications


Performing brute force password auditing against web applications is an essential step to evaluate the password strength of system accounts. There are powerful tools such as THC Hydra, but Nmap offers great flexibility as it is fully configurable and contains a database of popular web applications, such as WordPress, Joomla!, Django, Drupal, MediaWiki, and WebSphere.

This recipe shows how to perform brute force password auditing against popular and custom web applications with Nmap.

How to do it...

Use the following Nmap command to perform brute force password auditing against web applications using forms:

$ nmap --script http-form-brute -p 80 <target>

If credentials are found, they will be shown in the results:

   PORT  STATE SERVICE REASON 
   80/tcp open  http  syn-ack 
   | http-form-brute: 
   |   Accounts 
   |     user:secret - Valid credentials 
   |   Statistics 
   |_    Perfomed 60023 guesses in 467 seconds, average tps: 138 

 

 

How it works...

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