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

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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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Chapter 5: Scanning Web Servers

HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is arguably one of the most popular protocols in use today. Web servers have moved from serving static pages to handling complex web applications with user interaction. This evolution of web technologies opens the door to tainted user input that could change an application's logic to perform unintended malicious actions. Modern web development frameworks allow almost anyone with some knowledge of programming to produce web applications in minutes, but this has also caused an increase in the number of vulnerable applications on the internet. The number of available HTTP scripts for the Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) has grown over the years, and Nmap turned into an invaluable web scanner that helps penetration testers. Not only can it be used to find vulnerable web applications or detect incorrect configuration settings, but Nmap can also crawl web applications looking for all sorts of interesting information.

This...