There is a number of tools you can use in Linux to see what is going on your machine at the network level, one of the most common is netstat. This command will show you all the connections on your system, including some that you may not be interested in, like UNIX sockets. There are […]
Security
If you do pentesting or any kind of security analysis you probably found yourself in the situation of needing to transfer data between your machine and the vulnerable machine. It is useful to know a few ways to do this in case one of them doesn’t work for your specific situation. Generic Samba can be […]
Let’s say we have a packet capture file (.pcap) and we want to get as much information out of it as possible. One option could be wireshark and its command line version tshark. Using the latter we will be able to manipulate and format the output using tools like sed, grep, awk… Extracting host names with […]
Have you ever wanted to be able to tell if a host is using port forwarding? In this post we will setup a test scenario and you will learn how! Setting up our lab For this experiment we will need 3 host, in my case I have 2 Linux VM and a windows box. One […]
You probably have used nmap before, but did you know there are plenty of cool options to spice up your scanning sessions? For example, you can specify the –open option to show only open ports, or –reason if you want to see why a port is in the state it is (open/closed/filtered). If you want […]
