• knockd

    With knockd a serv­er can be con­fig­ured to respond only after some ports were checked before. Its often used for SSH. Couter­mea­sure: Sniff traf­fic and wait for an user to login and recon­struct the knock­ing pat­tern out of the pcaps.

  • General notes NC / Netcat Try net­cat first on inter­est­ing ports or nar­row port ranges to be more silent Network scan Choose a port which is prob­a­bly open on sys­tems on this net­work. E.g. 445 for Win­dows hosts or 22 for Lin­ux hosts. for i in $(seq 1 254); do nc -zv -w 1 10.10.10.$i 445;…