This post might be a little different, it little is on the nonethical side. But I am writing it with curiosity. I am sure many of you many know about it. Let’s start with this thing.
Recently I have been working on a project to transfer my current website to the cloud will messing around some logs I came across something called masscan.
I had no clue whats going on with this agent having a GitHub URL in access logs. In curiosity, it checked it out. Found that its the fastest port scanner. Facts claimed by the author can scan the whole internet in under 6 minutes with 10 million packets per second from a single machine.
Apparently it has made similar to Nmap, so people knowing Nmap won’t have a problem using it.
Let’s Jump too installation process. You will learn more by practically trying it. So, here is the link for that: https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan
- Installation of some important requirements
sudo apt-get install git gcc make libpcap-dev- Clone the git library
git clone https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan- Go to the library
cd masscan- Build the program
makeThis puts the program in the masscan/bin subdirectory. You’ll have to manually copy it to something like /usr/local/bin if you want to install it elsewhere on the system.
Or if you are using kali or ubuntu you can install it simply using the package installer
sudo apt-get install masscanUsage guide: https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan#usage
Scan internet scan: https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan#how-to-scan-the-entire-internet