5 ways to Banner Grabbing
Banner are refers as text message that received from host. Banners usually contain information about a service, such as the version number.
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Banner grabbing is a process to collect details regarding any remote PC on a network and the services running on its open ports. An attacker can make use of banner grabbing in order to discover network hosts and running services with their versions on their open ports and more over operating systems so that he can exploits it.
Nmap
A simple banner grabber which connects to an open TCP port and prints out anything sent by the listening service within five seconds.
The banner will be shortened to fit into a single line, but an extra line may be printed for every increase in the level of verbosity requested on the command line.
Type following command which will fetch banner for every open port in remote PC.
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