Hping Network Scanning Tool

 Hping Network Scanning Tool

Hping is a command-line TCP/IP packet assembler and analyzer tool. it is a  open-source spoofing tool that provides a pen tester with the ability to craft network packets to exploit vulnerable firewalls and IDS/IPS . Hping can also handle fragmentation, arbitrary packets body, and size and file transfer. It supports TCP, UDP, ICMP and RAWIP protocols. 

We can perform  following scans with Hping  parameters,

• Advanced port scanning.
• Testing net performance.
• Path MTU discovery.
• Transferring files between even fascist firewall rules.
• Traceroute-like under different protocols.
• Remote OS fingerprinting & others.
• Test firewall rules.

Current version of hping is hping3. Following are some commands for Hping3, which we used to perform network scan. we used Kali Linux environment for these commands.

ICAMP PING With Hping3

Create ACK Packet 

TCP Stealth Scan Command

The following are some options used with Hping3 command: -

*As per my last blog, In future  we discuss one-by-one Vulnerability Assessment  (VA) tools. If you have any question, you can ask me in comments section.