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Nmap All Commands full Details 2022 | Samirul Haque | @iamsamirhq | nmap.org
Nmap is a free open source tool, employed to discover hosts and services on a computer network by sending packets and analyzing the retrieved responses. Nmap offers some features for probing computer networks, including host discovery and service and operating system detection.
- Nmap can provide further information on targets, including reverse DNS names, device types, and MAC addresses.
- Host discovery — Identifying hosts on a network. For example, listing the hosts that respond to TCP and/or ICMP requests or have a particular port open.
- Port scanning — Enumerating the open ports on target hosts.
- OS detection — Determining the operating system and hardware characteristics of network devices.
- Version detection — Interrogating network services on remote devices to determine the application name and version number.
- Scriptable interaction with the target support using the Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE).
Usage of Nmap
- Auditing the security of a device or firewall by identifying the network connections which can be made to, or through it.
- Identifying open ports on a target host in preparation for auditing.
- Network inventory, network mapping, and maintenance and asset management.
- Auditing the security of a network by identifying new servers.
- Generating traffic to hosts on a network, response analysis and response time measurement.
- Finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in a network.
- DNS queries and subdomain search
NMAP Commands Cheatsheet
The following section explains the usage of category-wise NMAP diverse commands with examples as following -
Basic Scanning Commands
- Scan a Single Target
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