Mastering the Nmap Scripting Engine - Softcover

Pale, Paulino Calderon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782168311 ISBN 13: 9781782168317

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

Master the Nmap Scripting Engine and the art of developing NSE scripts

About This Book

• Extend the capabilities of Nmap to perform custom tasks with the Nmap Scripting Engine
• Learn the fundamentals of Lua programming
• Develop powerful scripts for the Nmap Scripting Engine
• Discover all the features and libraries of the Nmap Scripting Engine
• In-depth coverage of the Nmap Scripting Engine API and most important libraries with examples

Who This Book Is For

If you want to learn to write your own scripts for the Nmap Scripting Engine, this is the book for you. It is perfect for network administrators, information security professionals, and even Internet enthusiasts who are familiar with Nmap.

What You Will Learn

• Get to grips with the fundamentals of Lua, the programming language used by the Nmap Scripting Engine
• Extend the capabilities of Nmap by writing your own NSE scripts
• Explore the Nmap Scripting Engine API
• Discover all the available NSE libraries
• Write robust brute force password auditing scripts
• Customize the databases distributed with Nmap
• Produce flexible script reports in NSE
• Optimize Nmap scans with script and library arguments
• Enhance the version detection capabilities of Nmap

In Detail

Nmap is a well-known security tool used by penetration testers and system administrators for many different networking tasks. The Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) was introduced during Google's Summer of Code 2006 and has added the ability to perform additional tasks on target hosts, such as advanced fingerprinting and service discovery and information gathering.

This book will teach you everything you need to know to master the art of developing NSE scripts. The book starts by covering the fundamental concepts of Lua programming and reviews the syntax and structure of NSE scripts. After that, it covers the most important features of NSE. It jumps right into coding practical scripts and explains how to use the Nmap API and the available NSE libraries to produce robust scripts. Finally, the book covers output formatting, string handling, network I/O, parallelism, and vulnerability exploitation.

About this title

About the Author

Paulino Calderon Pale (@calderpwn) lives on a Caribbean island in Mexico called Cozumel. He is the cofounder of Websec, a company offering information security consulting services in Mexico and Canada. He learned how to program and administer IT infrastructures early in his life, and these skills came in handy when he joined the information security industry. Today, he loves learning about new technologies and penetration testing, conducting data gathering experiments, and developing software. He also loves to attend technology events and has given speeches and held workshops at over a dozen of them in Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Colombia. In the summer of 2011, Paulino joined Google's Summer of Code event to work on the Nmap project as an NSE developer. He focused on improving the web scanning capabilities of Nmap and has kept on contributing to the project since then.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1782168311
• ISBN 13: 9781782168317
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244