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Network Scanning Cookbook
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Network Scanning Cookbook

by Sairam Jetty
September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
6h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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How to detect and bypass network protection systems

The basic function of Nmap is to generate custom packets and analyze their response once they are sent to the remote hosts. This sometimes is not allowed by network protection systems such as firewalls and intrusion prevention and detection systems. In this recipe, we will discuss some of the methods that can be used to bypass these protections:

  • -f (Fragment packets): Most firewalls perform stateful and stateless packet inspection for which they examine the content of the packets and decide whether to allow the packet or drop it based on its contents. In order to bypass this, Nmap provides an option to fragment the packets so that the network device will not be able to construct the packet ...
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ISBN: 9781789346480