NMAP — The Network Mapper

Network Mapper (Nmap) is the most popular cyber security scanner . This is used for finding hosts and services in a network. It was written by Gordon Lyon and published in September 1997.

This tool have lot of features and can do lots of tests like finding the OS, services version, , it also can do brute force default logins and many more thing.

NMAP has come common type of scan they are following :

• TCP scan
• SYN stealth scan
• SCTP INIP scan
• UDP scan
• Ping scan
• Idle scan

Nmap is a pre-installed tool in Kali Linux. If not installed then try following command in any Debian based Linux

sudo apt-get install nmap

Now we Type Following command to start Nmap and see options:-

nmap -h

Following screenshot shows the output of the command :

To perform a basic scan we use the following command :

nmap -sV -Pn x.x.x.x

The following screenshot shows the output of the command:

Where x.x.x.x is the ip address of that system we want to scan. and -Pn means that we are doing a ping request first to check the host is up or down and -sV used will list the running services on the found open ports for us.

Or we can use another parameter -A which can automatically performs OS detection, versions, script scan and traceroute. The command is following :

nmap -A -Pn x.x.x.x

We can not complete NMAP in only post so we need a series of posts. This is the first one others are following: