This content introduces Nmap as a fundamental footprinting and reconnaissance tool for ethical hacking, explaining its basic functionalities, installation, and initial usage for gathering information about network targets.
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hey guys hack exploit here back again
with another video and welcome to end
map for beginners so this is going to be
a continuation in the ethical hacking
course now what is nmap well basically
nmap is a footprinting tool or a
reconnaissance tool now uh I had already
explained this in the first class the
first ethical hacking class uh this is
basically the first step of uh hacking
where you actually find information
about the Target or the IP or the
website so basically nmap is a footprint
tool that gets more information about
the um the Target or the IP or the
website for that matter in my opinion I
think in map is a must have for any pent
testers or ethical hackers or hackers
for that matter so uh basically uh n map
uh is available on almost all the
platforms all you have to do is just go
to the website um just going to open
nmap here uh it's nm.org that's their
website it's a free free software so you
can go and download it uh as you can see
here it's there available for Linux uh
windows and I believe Mac OS so if
you're actually on map uh if you're
actually on Mac I believe it's there so
uh you can actually install it on uh
Linux and windows because are the most
popular operating systems however if
you're using Cali Linux or parat Os like
I am it already comes pre-installed so
there are two ways you can go about
launching it on Windows I think you just
have to run the nmap command in the
command prompt uh same as with Linux but
if you're actually running a um a
penetration uh testing disc like par or
Linux uh or Cali Linux uh it's just in
the information gathering section which
is basically Recon recognisance so we
have n map right here and all you have
to do is open n map and it's going to
ask you for your root password because
it's going to need elevated uh
privileges so that's one way of uh of
starting end map now the second way of
starting end map is just by opening a
terminal uh entering your root password
uh or launching it in administrator mode
uh on Windows and you just want to enter
your password and then I'm just going to
clear the console uh like so and I'm
just going to enter nmap and I'm going
to enter the help um help option which
will basically give me all the options
available with nmap now it's going to
look a bit overwhelming because it's
going to give you a lot of lot of
options you can just look at this as a
manual basically they're giving you the
different options that you can use for
your different uh methods of scanning so
just don't worry about anything just
scroll down all the way to the bottom
and look at where it says examples I'm
going to use these examples to guide you
um to guide you in your uh uh in this
tutorial so uh firstly uh I want to just
say something n map is a very very very
noisy scanner now the reason what I mean
by this is nmap is easily detectable by
firewalls and uh by servers so they
actually know that you're scanning them
so the real charm of using nmap is not
just scanning a a server or a site or an
IP address for that matter it's how to
do it anonymously or uh very quietly so
that you're not detected I'm going to
get to that uh very very soon so uh just
make sure that you don't do anything
illegal uh I mean this is only for
educational purposes
so uh yeah so let's get to the next part
all right now uh as I was saying in the
example section uh it's just going to
give you an example of what a um a basic
n map uh run would look like you have
your nmap command which initializes in
map and then you have your uh parameters
that will bring results uh depending on
what you want out of those results so
you have your V and a now before we get
to that n map basically gives you a free
testing um uh scanning machine where
they allow you to scan their this scan
me. nm.org this web address uh for
educational purposes so as you can see
here hello welcome to scan me.n map.org
don't worry the website will be in the
description section if you're too lazy
to type that out uh so as you can see we
set up this machine to help folks learn
about nmap and also to test and make
sure that the nmap installation or
internet connection is working properly
you're authorized to scan this machine
with n map or the port scanners try not
to hammer uh on the server too hard a
few scans in a day is fine but do not
scan 100 times a day or use this site to
test your SSH Brute Force password
cracking tool so basically they they
allowing you they're giving you
permission to scan this which is what I
was going to say you need written
permission to scan any IP address any uh
any website or any server for uh
whatever you do uh it's on new that's
what I wanted to just put out so we're
going to use this as an example during
uh the the end map tutorials so coming
back here as you can see they've given
you example scan with the scan me.
nm.org uh address so what does V mean
well V basically prints the version
number or the name of the uh of these of
the server uh uh basically the address
name all right now uh the a basically
prints the uh OSD detection the version
detection and script scanning so it'll
basically give you the operating system
version the operating system itself and
this it will scan for scripts all right
now if we go down to the second one we
have a bit of a different uh command
here just ignore the SN for now I will
get to that in a future tutorial uh now
we as you can see here there's something
a bit confusing we have a very weird
looking IP uh configuration well this is
not really unusual in fact in fact what
this means is this is a range of IP
addresses now don't be confused by this
what this means uh is basically you can
pass a range of I IP addresses like from
this IP address to this IP address you
want nmap to scan that they could be
belonging to an organization so you can
basically do a very powerful end map
scan on like multiple IP addresses now
uh before we move on I just want to show
you an example of what I mean so what
you want to do is open a browser and I
just want you to search for this all
right I want you to search for
major IP block right that's the one I
want you to search for major IP block
with with whichever uh search engine and
it's going to open the major IP address
blocks just click on that by near soft
now what this means is basically these
are the IP ranges in every country all
around the world so these are all the IP
addresses registered to people or to
companies so you can choose from
whatever country that you want to scan
from uh really anything it's up to you
right so we can just try France uh let's
just try France for example and it'll
give you all the IPS and their ranges so
as you can see from this IP to this IP
belongs to Orange uh sa and it has the
assigned date and the total amount of IP
addresses now this comes to the very
important part I wanted to explain about
reconnaissance here
uh if you have an IP address you can
really do a lot with it and you can
actually find a lot of information
related to that IP address which is what
I'm going to show you right now so I'm
just going to pick a random IP address
uh let's try um let's try this one here
all right I'm just going to copy it know
it's not allowing me to copy it there we
are copying and I'm just going to search
uh for this is a very important command
this will basically give us the info
about what who this IP belongs to who is
all right so we're going to say who is
and we're going to paste that there and
we're going to enter and it's going to
open in a search engine who the IP
address belongs to so we're we're just
going to open the first uh site that we
get here so just open it and it
shouldn't take too long and it's going
to give you
the um it's going to give you all the
information about it so it's going to
tell you uh the country I saw the time
zone Europe Paris so you know it's in
Paris it also has the longitude and
latitude um coordinates so you can
actually get the uh
location uh however with the with the IP range
range
addresses what they do the uh the
basically the providers the internet
providers is they basically assign it to
a location and no more they don't have
like a specific address so uh usually
the location is about 90% accurate I
will get to GE location in the future
that's that's a bit of an advanced
tutorial uh but basically you can get
information about an IP using the who is
uh um the command which brings me to the
second part of what I wanted to say
about the who is and IP
addresses the search engines are your
best best best friend when it comes to
uh looking when it comes to
reconnaissance or footprinting you can
really really use them to Advantage and
as you can see it's given me the range
here on this website and it will give
you the location
and the longitude and latitude and
geolocation and so on and so forth so
you get the idea don't worry the
websites that have used here will be
linked in the
description all right so let's just head
over back to end map all
right um one more command I wanted to
show you that's really not linked to
nmap but is also important for uh
scanning or reconnaissance is the NS
Lookup All right so NS lookup is
available on Windows you don't need to
install it it's just part of the
operating system as it is on Linux uh
you hit NS lookup and then you enter the
um the target it can be an IP address or
a web uh or website so I'm going to copy
this site the scan me site because again
I want to keep this as legal as possible
and I'm just going to hit enter all
right and it's going to give me the
address so as you can see this allows
you to actually get the address of the
website and you can do it in vice versa
so if I if I uh copy this all right and
I said here NS look up and I pasted the
uh the address there hopefully it will
give me the name of the site all right
and as you can see here the name is can
me.n map.org all right pretty awesome
right now um if I just want to give you
a quick tip with NS lookup uh let's say
you're running a lot of uh scans and you
want to save them to a document or a to
a file so what I'm going to do is I'm
going to I want to save them on the
desktop right so I'm going to hit NS
lookup and uh we're going to let's say
we want to find the name of the of this
uh IP address we want to find what who
it's registered to and then what you
want to do is um you just want to use
the two greater than signs and you want
to give a name to a document that you
want to save it to in this case I'm
going to use a txt document and I'm
going to save it on my desktop because
that's where I opened the terminal from
although you could change it to whatever
uh directory you're in so I'm going to say
say
results.txt and I'm going to hit enter
and it's going to open uh results.txt as
you can see over here and if I open it
it'll give me the scan results pretty
awesome and you can keep on saving them
in here and it's just going to do it for
you automatically so uh this is uh
basically what I wanted to explain to
you for the first tutorial uh there's a
lot I've said in this tutorial and I
just just wanted all of that to sync in
in the next tutorial I'm going to go
through the advanced end map
commands but uh that's basically what I
wanted to tell you uh today um basically
what we've gone through in to summarize
is we've gone through what n map is um
the N map help commands what the N map
um the N map uh what what are they call
the parameters mean uh when I was
talking about these parameters right
here the V and the A and there's a lot
of them here which I'll go get uh to in
a in another video uh right after this
one I just want you guys to practice
what I've shown you in this video and
just practice a bit of reconnaissance
and uh yeah you'll get it you'll find it
really really interesting to see how
much information you can dig up from a
lot of thing a lot of these servers and
IP addresses so that's been it guys I
hope this video helped you and you
enjoyed it uh if you if it did help you
please leave a like if it didn't help
you you can dislike the video and let me
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alternatively if you have any question
hit me up in the comment section social
media and or kick uh I'm always there
and I'm ready to help you guys otherwise
uh we're going to continue uh the
advanced stuff in the next video thanks
for watching so much and have a
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