Nmap Practical— TryHackMe Walkthrough
Hey hackers! This blog will provide answers and explanations for the TryHackMe Nmap Practical.
- Does the target (
MACHINE_IP)respond to ICMP (ping) requests (Y/N)?
Answer: N
Explanation: The machine IP didn’t respond to the ping request as when the IP was pinged it responded with ‘100% packet loss.
2. Perform a Xmas scan on the first 999 ports of the target — how many ports are shown to be open or filtered?
Answer: 999
Explanation: The scan type Xmas is represented with ‘-sX’, the first 999 ports were specified with ‘-p999’ and the machine IP xx.xx.xxx.xxx to get the answer. The answer can be seen under the PORT/ STATE.
3. There is a reason given for this — what is it?
Note: The answer will be in your scan results. Think carefully about which switches to use — and read the hint before asking for help!
Answer: no response
Explanation: The question wanted to know why 999 ports were filtered/open and the results of the command showed the ‘REASON’ was no-response
4. Perform a TCP SYN scan on the first 5000 ports of the target — how many ports are shown to be open?
Answer: 5
Explanation: Under the PORT Column a total of 5 ports were seen and their state was OPEN.
6. Deploy the ftp-anon script against the box. Can Nmap login successfully to the FTP server on port 21? (Y/N)
Answer: Y
Explanation: It can be observed that under PORT STATE SERVICE columns the script ftp-anon allows Anonymous FTP login (FTP code 230).
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