You're reading from Nmap Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook, Third Edition Network discovery and security scanning at your fingertips

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838649357

Length 436 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Nmap

Concepts

Network Security

Author (1):

Paulino Calderon

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Nmap Fundamentals

2. Chapter 2: Getting Familiar with Nmap's Family FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Network Scanning

4. Chapter 4: Reconnaissance Tasks

5. Chapter 5: Scanning Web Servers

6. Chapter 6: Scanning Databases

7. Chapter 7: Scanning Mail Servers

8. Chapter 8: Scanning Windows Systems

9. Chapter 9: Scanning ICS/SCADA Systems

10. Chapter 10: Scanning Mainframes

11. Chapter 11: Optimizing Scans

12. Chapter 12: Generating Scan Reports

13. Chapter 13: Writing Your Own NSE Scripts

14. Chapter 14: Exploiting Vulnerabilities with the Nmap Scripting Engine

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix A: HTTP, HTTP Pipelining, and Web Crawling Configuration Options

HTTP user agent

1. Appendix Β: Brute-Force Password Auditing Options

Brute modes

2. Appendix C: NSE Debugging

3. Appendix D: Additional Output Options

4. Appendix Ε: Introduction to Lua

5. Appendix F: References and Additional Reading

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Enumerating PCWorx devices

PCWorx devices can be mapped on the network as they allow unauthenticated requests that return system information such as PLC type, model number, and firmware details.

This recipe shows you how to enumerate PCWorx devices with Nmap.

How to do it...

Open your terminal and enter the following Nmap command:

$ nmap -Pn -sT -p1962 --script pcworx-info <target>

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

PORT STATE SERVICE
1962/tcp open   pcworx
| pcworx-info:
|    PLC Type: ILC 330 ETH
|    Model Number: 2737193
|    Firmware Version: 3.95T
|    Firmware Date: Mar   2 2012
|_   Firmware Time: 09:39:02

How it works...

The pcworx-info script detects PCWorx devices and gathers information about the device, such as type, model number, and firmware information. In the previous command, we...