Let's now learn to perform port scanning with Sparta:
- Sparta uses Nmap to perform its port-scanning operations. We can see this by right-clicking on a host and navigating to the Portscan submenu. A number of Nmap scanning options are available to us; these options are also configurable in the sparta.conf file:
- If we want to add other options with different tools, we can do that as well. Let's begin by adding an option to conduct a stealth scan using hping3. Close the Sparta application and open a terminal window. From here, let's edit the Sparta configuration file using the following command:
vi /usr/share/sparta/sparta.conf ...
