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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

Enumerating Niagara Fox devices


Devices using the Niagara Fox protocol usually operate on TCP ports 1911 and 4911.They allow us to gather information remotely from them such as application name, Java version, host OS, time zone, local IP address, and software versions involved in the stack. The NSE script fox-info, is one of the very few tools available that allows us to work with this protocol and extract this information easily.

This recipe shows you how to detect and collect information from devices using the Niagara Fox protocol with Nmap.

How to do it...

Open your terminal and enter the following Nmap command:

$ nmap -Pn -sT -p1911,4911 --script fox-info <target>

The fox-info script will obtain device information, as shown next:

   PORT     STATE SERVICE
   1911/tcp open  niagara-fox
   | fox-info: 
   |   fox.version: 1.0.1
   |   hostName: 192.168.1.128
   |   hostAddress: 192.168.1.128
   |   app.name: Station
   |   app.version: 3.7.106.1
   |   vm.name: Java HotSpot(TM) Client...