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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 operating system

Nmap uses TCP/IP stack fingerprinting for OS detection.This is done by crafting custom TCP and UDP packets and analyzing their responses. After generating various such probes and comparing the results to the Nmap-os-db database of more than 2,600 known OS fingerprints and provides the OS version. The fingerprint provides details such as the vendor name, OS name, OS generation, device type, and also their Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) representation. Nmap also provides an option for the user to submit the fingerprint obtained if it is not present in the Nmap database of operating signatures:

  •  -O (Enable OS detection): This enables OS detection for an Nmap scan. This flag further has options that can be used ...
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ISBN: 9781789346480