Unicornscan

Unicornscan is an information gathering and correlation engine tool. It is useful for introducing stimulus and measuring the response from a TCP/IP device. Unicornscan has the following features:

  • Asynchronous stateless TCP port scanning
  • Asynchronous stateless TCP banner grabbing
  • Asynchronous UDP port scanning
  • Active and passive remote OS and application identification

To start Unicornscan, use the console to execute the following command:

# unicornscan -h

This will display all the options with their descriptions.

The main difference between Unicornscan and other similar tools is that it is a very fast and scalable port scanner. From our experience, the scanning of UDP ports will take a long time to finish, especially if you want to test ...

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