Common tools used by Hackers

This article is only for educational purpose.

There are 'n' numbers of hacking tools,in this blog,we would be talking about some of the most common tools used.

NETDISCOVER: Netdiscover is a tool which is used to find the the number of active hosts  on the network.This is the basic scanner.

Command: 

Netdiscover -i eth0 -r [IP Address]  

Here 'i' is defined as interface and 'r' as range

output for this command is

NMAP [Network Mapper]: NMAP is one of the most widely used tools by hackers.This is a more advanced scanner compare to Nedtdiscover.

In Linux if we want to the know in depth about any topic we can use the man page,Just type man (name of the topic)

• Ping Scan:Ping scan is used to see the number of active host  on the network.It's similar to Netdiscover 

Command:

nmap -sn [IP Address]   

• OS Detection: OS Detection is use to find out the operating system of the host machine or attacker's machine.

Command:

nmap -O [IP Address]

• Service Version Detection: Service version detection is used to know about the ports and service running on those ports.All scan deals with port only scans 1000 ports by default.

Command:

nmap -sV [IP Address]

• Aggressive Scan:This is one of the best scan in nmap.It's used to find the OS,in detail about the ports,services used on the port and the version of service.

Command: 

nmap -A [Ip Address]

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