You're reading from Nmap Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook, Third Edition Network discovery and security scanning at your fingertips

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838649357

Length 436 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Nmap

Concepts

Network Security

Author (1):

Paulino Calderon

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Nmap Fundamentals

2. Chapter 2: Getting Familiar with Nmap's Family FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Network Scanning

4. Chapter 4: Reconnaissance Tasks

5. Chapter 5: Scanning Web Servers

6. Chapter 6: Scanning Databases

7. Chapter 7: Scanning Mail Servers

8. Chapter 8: Scanning Windows Systems

9. Chapter 9: Scanning ICS/SCADA Systems

10. Chapter 10: Scanning Mainframes

11. Chapter 11: Optimizing Scans

12. Chapter 12: Generating Scan Reports

13. Chapter 13: Writing Your Own NSE Scripts

14. Chapter 14: Exploiting Vulnerabilities with the Nmap Scripting Engine

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix A: HTTP, HTTP Pipelining, and Web Crawling Configuration Options

HTTP user agent

1. Appendix Β: Brute-Force Password Auditing Options

Brute modes

2. Appendix C: NSE Debugging

3. Appendix D: Additional Output Options

4. Appendix Ε: Introduction to Lua

5. Appendix F: References and Additional Reading

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Saving NSE reports in Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch is a distributed NoSQL database used for handling large amounts of records. For internet-wide scanning, it could be a good idea to store our results in an Elasticsearch instance. Nmap does not support exporting results directly into Elasticsearch; however, we can achieve this task with some help from xmlstarlet.

The following recipe will show you how to generate JSON objects that can be inserted into an Elasticsearch instance.

Getting ready

For this task, we need to use a set of tools named XMLStarlet to work with XML documents. In Debian-based systems, you may install it with the following command:

# apt-get install xmlstarlet

For other systems, visit the XMLStarlet official website for installation instructions at http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/.

How to do it...

Scan your target and save the output in XML mode:
```
$nmap -sC -oX scanme.xml scanme.nmap.org
```
Now run the following xmlstarlet command using as...