g : options will be applied to every service globally m :: options will be applied to all services of this type p : services will be applied to all non-standard notation hosts Service arguments can be specified to be host-specific, type of service-specific Using -p which will be applied to all hosts in non-standard notation. iN : Input from Nmap's -oN Normal output formatĬan pass target specific services in ://target (standard) notation or iX : Input from Nmap's -oX XML output format

Simply type ncrack in the terminal to display the usage information and available options: ~# ncrack The first tool we'll look at today is Ncrack. Using your favorite text editor, create a file, and add a few common usernames: rootĪnd do the same thing for the passwords: password

In a real engagement, we'd want to use files with much larger data sets, but for demonstration purposes, we'll keep these short to speed up the whole process. Next, let's create two text files, one for usernames and one for passwords. Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.82 seconds We will be using Metasploitable 2 as the target and Kali Linux as the attacking machine. Before we begin, let's run a simple Nmap scan on our target to make sure the FTP service is present.

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