Nmap scan

Nmap wrapper for python with full Nmap DTD support, parallel scans and threaded callback methods support for faster analytics. You can also save your report to xml, json and html.

Copyright (c) 2020 Fabian Fröhlich mail@nmap-scan.de https://nmap-scan.de

Full License Information see LICENSE file in root directory of this source code and License section of this File.

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Quick setup

See our documentation for details.

Required

• install python 3.7 (other versions may also work)
• install python3-pip
• install Nmap
• pip3 install nmap-scan

Basic usage

Simple script to scan a network with parallel TCP and UDP scan and save the report into a file. Note that the callback_method is called asynchronous in the scanning thread of each scan method. If you don't need a callback on report finishing just remove the function call argument.

from nmap_scan.NmapArgs import NmapArgs
from nmap_scan.NmapScanMethods import NmapScanMethods
from nmap_scan.Scanner import Scanner

args = NmapArgs(['192.168.0.1/24'])
scanner = Scanner(args)

def callback_method(report, scan_method):
    filename = {
        NmapScanMethods.TCP: 'tcp',
        NmapScanMethods.UDP: 'udp',
    }

    report.save('reports/scan-' + filename.get(scan_method) + '.xml')
    report.save_html('reports/scan-' + filename.get(scan_method) + '.html')
    report.save_json('reports/scan-' + filename.get(scan_method) + '.json')


scanner.scan_udp_background(callback_method)
scanner.scan_tcp_background(callback_method)

# Do other stuff here

scanner.wait_all()

Advanced usage

Simple script to scan multiple networks with different configurations. Each configuration is executed parallel and also each host will be scanned parallel. You can set up the maximum parallel threads per configuration (default 32) so in the following example it will execute nmap within 64 threads. To do so we first will create for each configuration a ping scan with your given hosts and even set pn from your args but all other arguments are ignored for the ping scan. Afterwords for each host it will create a scan thread with your args but update the hosts to the ip of the host resulted by the ping scan. You even can choose, if you want to scan every ip from the host or only the first (default). Of each executed scan (except the ping scan) we will call the callback_method asynchronous as in the simple usage mentored. If you don't need a callback on report finishing just remove the argument in the MultiScannerConfiguration. You can simply get all reports after execution with get_reports()it will automatically wait until the complete scan is finished.

from nmap_scan.MultiScanner import MultiScanner
from nmap_scan.MultiScannerConfiguration import MultiScannerConfiguration
from nmap_scan.NmapArgs import NmapArgs
from nmap_scan.NmapScanMethods import NmapScanMethods

args = NmapArgs(['192.168.0.0/24'])
args2 = NmapArgs(['192.168.1.0/24'])

def callback_method(ip, report, scan_method):
    filename = {
        NmapScanMethods.TCP: 'tcp',
        NmapScanMethods.UDP: 'udp',
    }
    report.save('reports/' + ip + '_' + filename.get(scan_method) + '.xml')
    report.save_html('reports/' + ip + '_' + filename.get(scan_method) + '.html')
    report.save_json('reports/' + ip + '_' + filename.get(scan_method) + '.json')


configs = [
    MultiScannerConfiguration(nmap_args=args, scan_methods=[NmapScanMethods.TCP, NmapScanMethods.UDP], callback_method=callback_method),
    MultiScannerConfiguration(nmap_args=args2, scan_methods=[NmapScanMethods.TCP], callback_method=callback_method),
]
scanner = MultiScanner(configs)
scanner.scan_background()

# Do other stuff here

reports = scanner.get_reports()

Debugging

import logging

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG, filename='debug.log')

Hints

We decided to make a few changes in the nmap DTD and also in our script to avoid errors during parsing. We changed the script attribute "output" from required to optional, because not all scipts of nmap set this attribute. Here are the changes:

  <!ATTLIST script
  id    CDATA    #REQUIRED
- output    CDATA    #REQUIRED
+ output    CDATA    #IMPLIED
  >

License

This section contains the additional terms of the AGPLv3 license agreement, a copy of the AGPLv3 is included in the LICENSE file.

1. Security analytic / "White had" use only.

2. You are only allowed to use this tool, if you don't act against a law of your Country and if you don't planning a cyber attack on the scanned servers.

3. You are only allowed to scan your own Servers and those, where you have the permission to do so.

4. Adaptation of the README.md is prohibited. The file must also be included with each copy without any modification.

5. Adjustments of any kind must be listed in the attached CHANGELOG.md file. It is sufficient to name the change and the reason for the change here and to give appropriate references to the processing in the source code at the appropriate place.

6. All edited copies must be made available on github. You have to fork the original repository or use a fork from the original repository.

7. You have to place the following link on your Homepage in a suitable place, if you using this software in a commercial way:

   We using server scan tools from <a href="https://nmap-scan.de">Fabian Fr&ouml;hlich</a>

   The wording is decisive here, so another language may be used. Attributes of the link may also be adjusted, but the link must be followable by web crawlers (e.g. Googlebot).

   Furthermore, the imprint has to include a clear reference to the original github repository https://github.com/f-froehlich/nmap-scan as well as the link mentioned above in the body text.

8. You are not allowed to earn money with this tool.