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Mastering the Nmap Scripting Engine

Master the Nmap Scripting Engine and the art of developing NSE scripts

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
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|Oct 2025
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Key Features

    Book Description

    If you want to learn to write your own scripts for the Nmap Scripting Engine, this is the book for you. It is perfect for network administrators, information security professionals, and even Internet enthusiasts who are familiar with Nmap.

    What you will learn

    • Get to grips with the fundamentals of Lua, the programming language used by the Nmap Scripting Engine
    • Extend the capabilities of Nmap by writing your own NSE scripts
    • Explore the Nmap Scripting Engine API
    • Discover all the available NSE libraries
    • Write robust brute force password auditing scripts
    • Customize the databases distributed with Nmap
    • Produce flexible script reports in NSE
    • Optimize Nmap scans with script and library arguments
    • Enhance the version detection capabilities of Nmap

    Who this book is for

    If you want to learn to write your own scripts for the Nmap Scripting Engine, this is the book for you. It is perfect for network administrators, information security professionals, and even Internet enthusiasts who are familiar with Nmap.

    Table of Contents

    1. Lua fundamentals
    2. Introduction to NSE development
    3. NSE data files
    4. Exploring the Nmap Scripting Engine API and Libraries
    5. Enhancing Version Detection
    6. Developing Brute Force Password Auditing Scripts
    7. Formatting Script Output
    8. Working with Network Sockets and Binary Data
    9. Parallelism
    10. Vulnerability Detection and Exploitation
    11. Appendix A: Scan Phases
    12. Appendix B: NSE Script Template
    13. Appendix C: Script Categories
    14. Appendix D: Nmap Options Mind Map
    15. Appendix E: References
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78216-832-4
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2015 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2025
    Language: English
    Pages: 244
    Related subjects:
    Computer sciences,
    IT-security and cryptology
    BISAC subjects:
    COM053000,
    COM060040,
    COM043040,
    COM043050
    Thema subjects:
    UR,
    UDD,
    URD,
    UTP,
    UTN

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