Nmap Post Port Scans | Tryhackme Walkthrough

Learn how to leverage Nmap for service and OS detection, use Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE), and save the results.

Introduction:

This room is the last in the Nmap series (part of the Introduction to Network Security module). In this room, we focus on the steps that follow port-scanning: in particular, service detection, OS detection, Nmap scripting engine, and saving the scan results.

1. Nmap Live Host Discovery
2. Nmap Basic Port Scans
3. Nmap Advanced Port Scans
4. Nmap Post Port Scans

In the first room of this series, we have learned how Nmap can enumerate targets, discover live hosts, and use reverse-DNS to find interesting names. The second and third rooms of the series focused on the basic and advanced types of scans for network ports.

In the last room, as shown in the figure below, we focus on how Nmap can be used to:

• Detect versions of the running services (on all open ports)
• Detect the OS based on any signs revealed by the target
• Run Nmap’s traceroute
• Run select Nmap scripts
• Save the scan results in various formats