February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
426 pages
11h 3m
English
book
Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook - Third Edition
by Nipun Jaswal, Daniel Teixeira, Abhinav Singh, Monika Agarwal
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TCP Port Scanner
We can start by doing a basic TCP portscan with the TCP Port Scanner auxiliary module and see what we can find.
Since the TCP Port Scanner auxiliary module does not need administrative privileges on the source machine, it can be extremely useful when pivoting.
To run the TCP Port Scanner auxiliary module, we need to set the RHOSTS to the target range of our lab 192.168.216.0/24 and set the number of concurrent threads to 100 to speed up the scan:
Scanners and most other auxiliary modules use the RHOSTS option instead of RHOST.
msf > use auxiliary/scanner/portscan/msf auxiliary(tcp) > set RHOSTS 192.168.216.0/24RHOSTS => 192.168.216.0/24msf auxiliary(tcp) > set THREADS 100THREADS => 100msf auxiliary(tcp) > run[+] 192.168.216.5: ...
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