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Nmap 6: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook
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Nmap 6: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook

by Paulino Calderon
November 2012
Intermediate to advanced
318 pages
6h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Nmap 6: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook

Hiding our traffic with additional random data

Packets generated by Nmap scans usually just have the protocol headers set and, only in certain cases, include specific payloads. Nmap implements a feature to decrease the likelihood of detecting these known probes, by using random data as payloads.

This recipe describes how to send additional random data in packets sent by Nmap during a scan.

How to do it...

To append 300 bytes of random data, open your terminal and type the following command:

# nmap -sS -PS --data-length 300 scanme.nmap.org

How it works...

The argument --data-length <# of bytes> tells Nmap to generate random bytes and append them as data in the requests.

Most of the scanning techniques are supported in this method, but it is important ...

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