Faster your NMAP scan with “Agile Grabber”
Make your scan faster in CTFs to save time on scanning.
Greetings of the day everyone. In today’s article we are going to go through one of my tools called “Agile Grabber”. Agile Grabber is multi cored and multi threaded tool made with python and nmap to faster the scan results. You can get the tool from below link to go through the tool along with the article.
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Timing is a very important aspect of CTF challenges. The more time you save, more you can explore ahead. While targeting a machine, you should have such thing that can save your time and give you the results faster to speed up the process. For that purpose I have developed one tool called “Agile Grabber” to satisfy the need. You can clone or download the tool from given repository.
“Agile Grabber” is made with python that utilizes the multiprocessing and multithreading capabilities of python to make scan faster than usual. We are going to compare same target with this tool and nmap to see the results.
Installation
git clone https://github.com/sudo0x18/AgileGrabber.git
cd AgileGrabberRequirement Installation
pip3 install -r requirements.txtUsage
python3 agile_grabber.py -t TARGET -th THREADSDemo
**NOTE** : Use AgileGrabber with your host machine instead of virtual machine to optimize the speed of the CPU in the best manner. This tool supports Windows and Mac operating system.
Agile Grabber Scan
We are going to scan http://scanme.nmap.org for demo purpose.
Here we are giving target with flag -t as scanme.nmap.org and the number of threads with flag -th as 250. You can give more than that also. The number of threads depends upon your CPU capabilities. It scans for 65,535 ports by default.
As you can see that it completed scanning all 65,535 ports in only 1 minute and 32 seconds. Incredibly fast nah. Now it will take all open ports and start nmap scan on all of them to get more results and clarity. Now this time it will create multiple processes to faster the scan results.
As you can see that it completed the advanced scan in only 16 seconds and completed full scan in only 1 minute and 54 seconds. Very fast, right?It is the power of python and multiprocessing and multithreading. Now let’s see the same example with nmap with the same number of ports and same type of options.
NMAP Scan
Put the nmap scan the above command to scan the target and wait for the results.
As you can see it took 18 minutes and 63 seconds to do the same scan as above. But timings of the both scans are far away from each other’s scan timing. That’s all.
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