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Kali Linux Network Scanning Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux Network Scanning Cookbook A Step-by-Step Guide leveraging Custom Scripts and Integrated Tools in Kali Linux

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
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ISBN-13 9781787287907
Length 634 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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 Hixon Hixon
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
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Preface
1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Reconnaissance 3. Discovery 4. Port Scanning 5. Fingerprinting 6. Vulnerability Scanning 7. Denial of Service 8. Working with Burp Suite 9. Web Application Scanning 10. Attacking the Browser with BeEF 11. Working with Sparta 12. Automating Kali Tools

Banner grabbing with Netcat


Netcat is a multipurpose networking tool that can be used to perform multiple information-gathering and scanning tasks with Kali Linux. This recipe will demonstrate how to use Netcat to acquire service banners in order to identify the services associated with open ports on a target system.

Getting ready

To use Netcat to gather service banners, you will need to have a remote system running network services that discloses information when a client device connects to them. In the examples provided, an instance of Metasploitable2 is used to perform this task. For more information on setting up Metasploitable2, refer to the Installing Metasploitable2 recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started.

How to do it…

Follow along to gather banner information using Netcat:

  1. To use Netcat to grab service banners, one must establish a socket connection to the intended port on the remote system. To quickly understand the usage of Netcat and how it can be used for this purpose, one can call...
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