Scanning and information gathering
Moving ahead from our first recipe, we can now start working with Armitage once it is up and running. In this recipe, we will start with the most basic step of penetration testing, that is, scanning and information gathering. Let's perform an Nmap scan in Armitage and see what result is displayed on the GUI.
Getting ready
To launch an Nmap scan, you can click on Hosts and then Nmap Scan, as shown in the following screenshot. Let us do a quick operating system detection scan and see if any hosts are alive or not:
Giving a quick look at the Armitage window, there is a search panel on the left where we can search for ...
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