Port Scanning
TLDR
# Stealthy
nmap -sS 10.11.1.X
# Scan all ports, might take a while.
nmap 10.11.1.X -p-
# Scan for UDP
nmap 10.11.1.X -sU
unicornscan -mU -v -I 10.11.1.X
# Scan for version, with NSE-scripts and trying to identify OS
nmap 10.11.1.X -sV -sC -O
# All out monsterscan
nmap -vvv -Pn -A -iL listOfIP.txt
# Fast scan
nmap 10.11.1.X -F
# Only scan the 100 most common ports
nmap 10.11.1.X --top-ports 100
Nmap
Now that you have gathered some IP addresses from your subdomain scanning it is time to scan those addresses. You just copy-paste those addresses and add them to a file, line by line. Then you can scan all of them with nmap at the same time. Using the -iL flag.
Basics - tcp-connect scan
Okay, so a bit of the basics of Nmap and how it works. When one machine initiate a connection with another machine using the transmission-control protocol (tcp) it performs what is know as a three-way handshake. That means:
machine1 sends a syn packet to machine2
machine2 send a syn-ack packet to machine1
machine1 sends a ack packet to machine2.
If machine2 responds with a syn-ack we know that that port is open. This is basically what nmap does when it scans for a port. If machine1 omits the last ack packet the connection is not made. This can be a way to make less noise.
This is the default mode for nmap. If you do not add any flags and scan a machine this is the type of connection it creates.
"Stealthy" -sS
By adding the -sS flag we are telling nmap to not finalize the three way handshake. It will send a syn, receive syn-ack (if the port is open), and then terminate the connection. This used to be considered stealthy before, since it was often not logged. However it should not be considered stealthy anymore.
In the flag I imagine that the first s stands for scan/scantype and the second S stands for syn.
So -sS can be read as scantype syn
UDP scan
UDP is after TCP the most common protocol. DNS (53), SNMP (161/162) and DHCP (67/68) are some common ones. Scanning for it is slow and unreliable.
-sU
Output scan to a textfile
Not all output works with grepable format. For example NSE does not work with grepable. So you might want to use xml instead.
# To text-file
-oN nameOfFile
# To grepable format
-oG nameOfFile
# To xml
-oX nameOfFile
Scan an entire IP-range
You might find that a site has several machines on the same ip-range. You can then use nmap to scan the whole range.
The -sn flag stops nmap from running port-scans. So it speeds up the process.
nmap -vvv -sn 201.210.67.0/24
You can also specify a specific range, like this
nmap -sP 201.210.67.0-100
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Sort out the machines that are up
So let's say you find that 40 machine exists in that range. We can use grep to output those IP:s.
First let's find the IPs that were online. Ip-range is the output from previous command. You can of course combine them all.
cat ip-range.txt | grep -B 1 "Host is up"
Now let's sort out the ips from that file.
grep -o '[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}' ip-range.txt > only-ip.txt
Now you can input all those ips to nmap and scan them.
Scan a range and output if a specific port is open
Nmap has a command to make the output grepable.
nmap -vvv -p 80 201.210.67.0-100 -oG - | grep 80/open
Nmap scripts
This chapter could also be placed in Vulnerability-analysis and Exploitation. Because nmap scripting is a really versatile tool that can do many things. Here we will focus on it's ability to retrieve information that can be useful in the process to find vulnerabilities
First locate the nmap scripts. Nmap scripts end in .nse. For Nmap script engine.
locate *.nse
The syntax for running a script is:
nmap --script scriptname 192.168.1.101
To find the "man"-pages, the info about a script we write:
nmap -script-help http-vuln-cve2013-0156.nse
Run multiple scripts
Can be run by separating the script with a comma
nmap --script scriptone.nse,sciprt2.nse,script3.nse 192.168.1.101
Run the default scripts
nmap -sC example.com
Metasploit
We can do port-scanning with metasploit and nmap. And we can even integrate nmap into metasploit. This might be a good way to keep your process neat and organized.
db_nmap
You can run db_nmap and all the output will be stored in the metasploit database and available with
hosts
services
You can also import nmap scans. But you must first output it in xml-format with the following flag
nmap 192.168.1.107 -oX result.xml
Good practice would be to output the scan-results in xml, grepable and normal format. You do that with
nmap 192.168.1.107 -oA result
Then you can load it into the database with the following command.
db_import /path/to/file.xml
Metasploit PortScan modules
If you for some reason don't have access to nmap you can run metasploits modules that does portscans
use auxiliary/scanner/portscan/