Target service scanning with auxiliary modules

Let us now try out some targeted scanning for specific services running on a range of IP addresses, or on a single target host. Various service-based scans are available; VNC, FTP, SMB, and so on. Auxiliary modules can be really handy in such situations when we are looking for specific types of services on our target.

Getting ready

Let us find out what service-based scanning auxiliary modules are available to us. We can navigate through the following path:

	
root@bt:/pentest/exploits/framework3/modules/auxiliary/scanner# ls
	
backdoor   emc 	ip    	mysql	pop3   	sap   ssh    	vnc
db2    	finger  lotus 	netbios  portscan   sip   telephony voice
dcerpc 	ftp 	misc  	nfs  	postgres   smb   telnet 	vxworks
dect   	http	motorola  ntp  	rogue  	smtp  tftp   	x11
discovery  imap	mssql 	oracle   rservices  snmp  upnp

As we can see, there are lots of options for service scan modules which can be very handy during penetration testing. Let us quickly work...