Re: Ideas on netcat

["BS" <bsshuhart () onemain com>]

Besides using netcat for backdoors, I use it in scripts to do low and slow
port scanning.  Just put the command line in a loop to go through an IP
address range looking for open services (sleep between probes) and its
amazing how much info you can collect about a network and still stay below
the threshold of IDS.

Redirect input to the command line and you can grab web, telnet, ftp,
etc...headers and depending on the info retreived, you can begin to OS
finger print your targets.

bs
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Vo0d0o" <voodooo () rediffmail com>
To: <pen-test () securityfocus com>
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 2:29 AM
Subject: Ideas on netcat


To all netcat gurus,

I hav been experimentin on netcat for a few days and searchin almost
everyday on netcat for some possible uses ,but in vain.

As far as I know, no site is giving some other uses of netcat pertaining to
pen-testing ...other than the usual *README* file which I find too basic.

I would be grateful if anybody could throw some light on uses of netcat in
pen-testing.

Thanx in advance.

Cheers,
Kartik.






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