Cybersecurity | Nmap | Aggressive Scan

Cybersecurity | Nmap | Aggressive Scan | Codecademy (2024)

An aggressive scan provides far better information than a regular scan, but is more likely to be detected. It is performed by using the -A option and enables the following:

Aggressive scans send out more probes than a regular scan, and are more likely to be detected during a security audit.

nmap -A <target>

The above conducts an aggressive scan on <target>.

nmap -A scanme.nmap.org

Starting Nmap 7.93 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2022-11-27 11:53 Eastern Standard Time
Nmap scan report for scanme.nmap.org (45.33.32.156)
Host is up (0.12s latency).
Other addresses for scanme.nmap.org (not scanned): 2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fe18:bb2f
Not shown: 992 closed tcp ports (reset)
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 6.6.1p1 Ubuntu 2ubuntu2.13 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
See Also
Command-line Flags | Nmap Network ScanningWhat is Verbose Mode? How To Enable ItA Detailed Guide on RustScan - Hacking Articles
| ssh-hostkey:
| 1024 ac00a01a82ffcc5599dc672b34976b75 (DSA)
| 2048 203d2d44622ab05a9db5b30514c2a6b2 (RSA)
| 256 9602bb5e57541c4e452f564c4a24b257 (ECDSA)
|_ 256 33fa910fe0e17b1f6d05a2b0f1544156 (ED25519)
25/tcp filtered smtp
80/tcp open http Apache httpd 2.4.7 ((Ubuntu))
|_http-title: Go ahead and ScanMe!
|_http-favicon: Nmap Project
|_http-server-header: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)
135/tcp filtered msrpc
139/tcp filtered netbios-ssn
445/tcp filtered microsoft-ds
9929/tcp open nping-echo Nping echo
31337/tcp open tcpwrapped
Aggressive OS guesses: Linux 5.4 (99%), Linux 5.0 - 5.4 (99%), Linux 4.15 - 5.6 (97%), Linux 2.6.32 - 3.13 (96%), Linux 5.0 - 5.3 (95%), Linux 5.1 (95%), Linux 2.6.22 - 2.6.36 (95%), Linux 3.10 - 4.11 (95%), Linux 5.0 (94%), Linux 2.6.32 (94%)
No exact OS matches for host (test conditions non-ideal).
Network Distance: 18 hops
Service Info: OS: Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel
TRACEROUTE (using port 443/tcp)
HOP RTT ADDRESS
1 3.00 ms dsldevice.attlocal.net (192.168.1.254)
2 ... 5
6 35.00 ms 32.130.17.77
7 33.00 ms cgcil403igs.ip.att.net (12.122.132.121)
8 36.00 ms be3039.ccr41.ord03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.12.85)
9 33.00 ms be2766.ccr42.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.46.177)
10 61.00 ms be2832.ccr22.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.44.169)
11 65.00 ms be3036.ccr22.den01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.31.89)
12 90.00 ms be3038.ccr32.slc01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.42.97)
13 92.00 ms be3109.ccr21.sfo01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.44.137)
14 94.00 ms be3178.ccr21.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.43.70)
15 97.00 ms be2063.rcr21.b001848-1.sjc01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.1.162)
16 99.00 ms 38.142.11.154
17 100.00 ms if-1-6.csw5-fnc1.linode.com (173.230.159.67)
18 118.00 ms scanme.nmap.org (45.33.32.156)
OS and Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 53.73 seconds