Re: linux pen-test

From: securityfocus@benmansour.net
Date: Fri Aug 05 2005 - 08:05:27 EDT


('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) Hi Bruno,

Running nmap with the -sV or -A options should yield more information.
I would be surprised if ports 25 and 110 do not bind to known services.

The version detection feature of nmap is "active" i.e. is likely to be logged by the application and any intrusion detection device on the target network.

>From http://www.insecure.org/nmap/versionscan.html :

"The new Nmap version scanning subsystem tries to answer all these questions by connecting to open ports and interrogating them for this information using probes that the specific services understand. This allows Nmap to give a much more details assessment of what is really running, rather than just what port numbers are open. Here is a real example:

# nmap -A -T4 -F www.insecure.org

Starting nmap 3.40PVT16 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2003-09-06 19:49 PDT
Interesting ports on www.insecure.org (205.217.153.53):
(The 1206 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: filtered)
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 3.1p1 (protocol 1.99)
25/tcp open smtp Qmail smtpd
53/tcp open domain ISC Bind 9.2.1
80/tcp open http Apache httpd 2.0.39 ((Unix) mod_perl/1.99_07-dev Perl/v5.6.1)
113/tcp closed auth
Device type: general purpose
Running: Linux 2.4.X|2.5.X
OS details: Linux Kernel 2.4.0 - 2.5.20
Uptime 108.307 days (since Wed May 21 12:27:44 2003)

Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 34.962 seconds"

Good luck,

Skander Ben Mansour

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