From the course: Metasploit Essential Training
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How to discover services
From the course: Metasploit Essential Training
How to discover services
- [Instructor] Now previously we looked at how to use scanners to identify specific services and ports and things like that. But it's also important when we're trying to identify services to actually understand and identify the targets that we need to utilize first. So within the scanner capabilities we have the ability of performing what's called discovery. So if I type search and use the word discovery, it will then come back and give me a list of discovery scanners or exploits or post exploits. You can see here though, number 40 and 41, they are auxiliary scanners, discovery, UDP probe, and UDP sweep. These are two specific ones that we can utilize to identify targets on a specific network. So I can say use auxiliary, it's a scanner, I'm going to say discovery. And then let's just do a UDP sweep like so. I can then set my RHOSTS to be 10.100.10.1, and we'll say all the way to 120 again. I'm going to set my threads.…
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