Active Information Gathering
Active Information gathering Viraj Dissanayake The way of using the nmap, thehavester, dnsenum security tool packages have been demonstrated in the lab session. Nmap(Network mapper) – A security scanner which use to discover hosts & services on a network Netcat – A network analysis tool which use to open up TCP and UDP connections between two hosts Thehavester – use to gather emails, subdomains, hosts, open ports details dnsenum – use to enumerate DNS information of a domain and to discover non-contiguous IP blocks Methodology To represent two hosts, two virtual machines has been used which were installed in the same pc/laptop. in this lab session. Step 1 – Establishing the connection between the two hosts Step 2 - Then used each of those mentioned packages for active information gathering 1 – nmap 192.168.56.99/24 – this command scans a subnet The results show that there are 12 open ports ava