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Mastering the Nmap Scripting Engine

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

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|Sep 2025
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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