Penetration Testing: Re: Port identification methodology

[Franck Veysset <franck.veysset () intranode com>]

There have been some work done on this subject.

you can have a look at Nessus. There is a plugin called "find-services"
which do something like this. It just try to recognize which service is
running on which port.

This plugin, written in C, is available at :
http://cvs.nessus.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/nessus-plugins/plugins/find_service/

If I remember well, Saurik have also done some work on Nmap. A patch
was performing such a function. More information at:

ftp://ftp.saurik.com/pub/nmap/

Hope this help...

-Franck


Erik Norman a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> I have a question regarding methodology while performing a
> PT. It concerns identifying programs/services.
>
> Imagine a full nmap scan has been performed. A handfull
> of open ports was found on a particular server. The
> usual 25, 53, 80 etc are identified, but one or two ports
> stand out from the crowd. Looking in various 'common ports'
> files does not provide a hint what the port is used for.
>
> Connecting with telnet yields no text, and a tcpdump
> dump does not provide any text (in clear anyway).
>
> Now what!???
>
> How should one approach this?
>
> /Erik
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