These special purpose scan types are adept at sneaking past firewalls to explore the systems behind them. Unfortunately they rely on target behavior that some systems particularly Windows variants don't exhibit. ACK scan is commonly used to map out firewall rulesets. In particular, it helps understand whether firewall rules are stateful or not.
The downside is that it cannot distinguish open from closed ports. Window scan is like ACK scan, except that it is able to detect open versus closed ports against certain machines. This allows it to get by more packet filtering firewalls, with the downside that it works against even fewer systems than FIN scan does.
Idle scan is the stealthiest scan type of all, and can sometimes exploit trusted IP address relationships. Unfortunately, it is also slow and complex. Yet it still uses the -p option to select scanned protocol numbers, reports its results with the normal port table format, and even uses the same underlying scan engine as the true port scanning methods.
So it is close enough to a port scan that it belongs here. This deprecated scan type tricks FTP servers into performing port scans by proxy. Most FTP servers are now patched to prevent this, but it is a good way to sneak through restrictive firewalls when it works. Nmap's port registration file nmap-services contains empirical data about how frequently each TCP or UDP port is found to be open.
This data was collected by scanning tens of millions of Internet addresses, then combining those results with internal scan data contributed by large enterprises. By default, Nmap scans the 1, most popular ports of each protocol it is asked to scan. Alternatively, you can specify the -F fast option to scan only the most common ports in each protocol or --top-ports to specify an arbitrary number of ports to scan. When none of these canned port sets suit your needs, an arbitrary list of port numbers can be specified on the command-line with the -p option.
The syntax of the -p option can be complex, and is best described with examples. Scan a single port in this case port 22 by specifying just that number as the -p argument. Multiple ports may be separated with commas. Note that no protocol is specified, so these same port numbers will be used for whatever scan methods are specified on the command-line. If both are specified, those three ports are scanned for each protocol, for a total of six scanned ports.
Port ranges may be specified by separating the beginning and end port with a hyphen. Multiple ranges or individual ports can be specified with commas. This option scans ports 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, , , etc.
Based on the port numbers, this user is probably scanning TCP and looking for web servers. You can omit the beginning of a range to imply port one, or the end to imply the last port possible for TCP and UDP, for protocol scan. This example scans ports one through , and all ports greater or equal to 60, Wildcards may be used to match ports with similar names. This expression matches eight port numbers, including http 80 , http-mgmt , https , and http-proxy Depending on your command shell, you may need to escape the asterisk so it isn't treated as a filename glob.
Enclosing a range in brackets causes those port numbers to be scanned only if they are registered in nmap-services. In this example, all the reserved ports 1—1, , plus all the higher ports registered in nmap-services.
That was Nmap's default behavior before nmap-services was augmented with open port frequency data for more precise selection. Port scanning is often the most time consuming part of an Nmap scan which might also include OS detection, version detection, and NSE scripts. While Nmap tries to be quick and efficient by default, manual optimization often helps. This is the default scan type for unprivileged users. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.
Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. What are the default nmap options? Ask Question. Asked 5 years, 5 months ago. Active 3 years, 6 months ago. Viewed 4k times. Which options are used by default, when the user fires nmap target without any explicit option? The last thing of interest are scan timings , for IDS evasion. Improve this question. Add a comment.
Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Frank Thomas Frank Thomas The difference between them is in how long they delay between each packet they send. Paranoid waits 5 minutes, Sneaky waits 15 seconds, and Polite waits at least. At the Normal stage the parallel scan types start, and it tries to go as fast as possible while monitoring for bandwidth starvation. Agressive and Insane get progressivly faster and less concerned for the well-being of the network being scanned.
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Specifying Ports By default, nmap scans ports in version 3. You can do this by specifying the -p option like so: nmap -p In order to pick and choose between certain ports and ranges, you can do the following: nmap -p22,23, I spend my time reading books a month on security, technology, and society—and thinking about what might be coming next. Every Monday morning I send out a list of the best content I've found in the last week to around 50, people.
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