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Hands-On Application Penetration Testing with Burp Suite
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Hands-On Application Penetration Testing with Burp Suite

by Carlos A. Lozano, Dhruv Shah, Riyaz Ahemed Walikar
February 2019
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
366 pages
7h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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Port scanning

In a real assessment, an agreement between the person or company that is reviewing the application and the application's owners is established. This is one of the first steps involved in detecting the services.

This task is usually carried out using Nmap (https://nmap.org/), which is a command-line tool that is used to detect ports and services running on a remote host. Using Nmap is not complicated; you can just type nmap on a command line to see all the different options we have, as shown in the following screenshot:

To perform a standard scan to a host, we can use the following command:

nmap -vv -sV -O -Pn -p0-65535 -oA nmap_[IP] ...
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