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Port Scan Tools

Nmap: Network Mapper

Nmap is now one of the core tools used by network administrators to map their networks. The program can be used to find live hosts on a network, perform port scanning, ping sweeps, OS detection, and version detection.

NMAP https://github.com/nmap/nmap

MASSCAN: Mass IP port scanner

This is an Internet-scale port scanner. It can scan the entire Internet in under 5 minutes, transmitting 10 million packets per second, from a single machine.

MASSCAN https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan

RustScan

The Modern Port Scanner. Find ports quickly (3 seconds at its fastest). Run scripts through our scripting engine (Python, Lua, Shell supported).

RustScan https://github.com/RustScan/RustScan

Naabu

Naabu is a port scanning tool written in Go that allows you to enumerate valid ports for hosts in a fast and reliable manner.

It is a really simple tool that does fast SYN/CONNECT/UDP scans on the host/list of hosts and lists all ports that return a reply.

Nabu https://github.com/projectdiscovery/naabu

Sandmap

Sandman is a tool supporting network and system reconnaissance using the massive Nmap engine. It provides a user-friendly interface, automates and speeds up scanning and allows you to easily use many advanced scanning techniques.

SandMap https://github.com/trimstray/sandmap

ScanCannon

A POSIX-compliant BASH script for efficient reconnaissance and attack prep against massive edge networks.

ScanCannon https://github.com/johnnyxmas/ScanCannon

Scrying

Collecting RDP, web and VNC screenshots all in one place.

Scrying https://github.com/nccgroup/scrying

Depix

Depix is a PoC for a technique to recover plaintext from pixelized screenshots.

Depix https://github.com/spipm/Depix

Screenshoteer

Makes web screenshots and mobile emulations from the command line.

Screenshoteer https://github.com/vladocar/screenshoteer

Eyeballer

Eyeballer is an AI-powered, open source tool designed to help penetration testers assess large-scale external perimeters.

Eyeballer https://github.com/BishopFox/eyeballer

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