nmap Cheat Sheet
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nmap Cheat Sheet
Built by Yuval (tisf) Nativ from See-Security's Hacking Defined Experts program
This nmap cheat sheet is uniting a few other cheat sheets
Basic Scanning Techniques
• Scan a single target nmap [target]
• Scan multiple targets nmap [target1,target2,etc]
• Scan a list of targets nmap -iL [list.txt]
• Scan a range of hosts nmap [range of IP addresses]
• Scan an entire subnet nmap [IP address/cdir]
• Scan random hosts nmap -iR [number]
• Excluding targets from a scan nmap [targets] –exclude [targets]
• Excluding targets using a list nmap [targets] –excludefile [list.txt]
• Perform an aggressive scan nmap -A [target]
• Scan an IPv6 target nmap -6 [target]
Discovery Options
• Perform a ping scan only nmap -sP [target]
• Don’t ping nmap -PN [target]
• TCP SYN Ping nmap -PS [target]
• TCP ACK ping nmap -PA [target]
• UDP ping nmap -PU [target]
• SCTP Init Ping nmap -PY [target]
• ICMP echo ping nmap -PE [target]
• ICMP Timestamp ping nmap -PP [target]
• ICMP address mask ping nmap -PM [target]
• IP protocol ping nmap -PO [target]
• ARP ping nmap -PR [target]
• Traceroute nmap –traceroute [target]
• Force reverse DNS resolution nmap -R [target]
• Disable reverse DNS resolution nmap -n [target]
• Alternative DNS lookup nmap –system-dns [target]
• Manually specify DNS servers nmap –dns-servers [servers] [target]
• Create a host list nmap -sL [targets]
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Firewall Evasion Techniques
• Fragment packets nmap -f [target]
• Specify a specific MTU nmap –mtu [MTU] [target]
• Use a decoy nmap -D RND: [number] [target]
• Idle zombie scan nmap -sI [zombie] [target]
• Manually specify a source port nmap –source-port [port] [target]
• Append random data nmap –data-length [size] [target]
• Randomize target scan order nmap –randomize-hosts [target]
• Spoof MAC Address nmap –spoof-mac [MAC|0|vendor] [target]
• Send bad checksums nmap –badsum [target]
Version Detection
• Operating system detection nmap -O [target]
• Attempt to guess an unknown nmap -O –osscan-guess [target]
• Service version detection nmap -sV [target]
• Troubleshooting version scans nmap -sV –version-trace [target]
• Perform a RPC scan nmap -sR [target]
Output Options
• Save output to a text file nmap -oN [scan.txt] [target]
• Save output to a xml file nmap -oX [scan.xml] [target]
• Grepable output nmap -oG [scan.txt] [target]
• Output all supported file types nmap -oA [path/filename] [target]
• Periodically display statistics nmap –stats-every [time] [target]
• 133t output nmap -oS [scan.txt] [target]
Ndiff
• Comparison using Ndiff ndiff [scan1.xml] [scan2.xml]
• Ndiff verbose mode ndiff -v [scan1.xml] [scan2.xml]
• XML output mode ndiff –xml [scan1.xm] [scan2.xml]
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Nmap Scripting Engine
• Execute individual scripts nmap –script [script.nse] [target]
• Execute multiple scripts nmap –script [expression] [target]
• Execute scripts by category nmap –script [cat] [target]
• Execute multiple scripts categories nmap –script [cat1,cat2, etc]
• Troubleshoot scripts nmap –script [script] –script-trace [target]
• Update the script database nmap –script-updatedb
• Script categories
◦ all
◦ auth
◦ default
◦ discovery
◦ external
◦ intrusive
◦ malware
◦ safe
◦ vuln
References
• See-Security's main page
• Hacking Defined.org
• See-Security's Facebook Page
• nmap Professional Discovery Guide
• nmap's Official Web Page
