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description: This is an Mass scan cheat sheet for active information gathering.
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# Mass Scan

### <mark style="color:red;">**Target specification**</mark>

```bash
# Target specification
masscan 10.0.0.1 
masscan 10.0.0.0/24 192.168.1.0/24

# Exclude IP file
masscan 10.0.0.1/24 --excludeFile <file>

# Exclude a single IP from the scan
masscan 180.215.0.0/16 --exclude=180.215.122.120
```

### <mark style="color:red;">**Port specification**</mark>

```bash
# Port specification
masscan 10.0.0.0.1 -p 80
masscan 10.0.0.0.1 -p 0-65535
masscan 10.0.0.0.1 -p 80,443

# UDP Scan
masscan 10.0.0.0.1 -pU 53
```

### <mark style="color:red;">**Timing and Performance**</mark>

```bash
# Used to scan in offline mode
# It does not send any traffic but just estimate the time length
masscan 0.0.0.0/24 --offline

# Using the rate to send X packets per second
masscan 10.0.0.1/24 --rate 10000
```

```bash
# Get banners from services (only few protocols supported)
# Problem is that masscan uses his own TCP/IP stack so when the local system 
# received a SYN-ACK from the probed target, it responds with a TST packet that 
# kills the connection before the banner information can be grabbed.
# You can use --source-ip to assign another IP to prevent
masscan 10.0.0.1 --banners

# Assign masscan to another IP
masscan 10.0.0.1 --source-ip 192.168.1.200

# Include a ping
masscan 10.0.0.1 --ping

# Change the default user agent
masscan 10.0.0.1 --http-user-agent <user-agent>

# Report only open ports
masscan 10.0.0.1 --open-only

# Save sent packet in PCAP
masscan 10.0.0.1 --pcap <filename>

# Print packets in terminal (ok in low rate but RIP terminal with high rates)
masscan 10.0.0.1 --packet-trace
```

### <mark style="color:red;">Output</mark> <a href="#output" id="output"></a>

```bash
# Output in binary mode
massscan 10.1.1.1/24 -p 80 -oB <filename>

# Output in XML format
massscan 10.1.1.1/24 -p 80 -oX <filename>

# Output in grepable format
massscan 10.1.1.1/24 -p 80 -oG <filename>

# Output in JSON format
massscan 10.1.1.1/24 -p 80 -oJ <filename>

# Output in simple list format
massscan 10.1.1.1/24 -p 80 -oL <filename>

# Read a binary output and writes it to the console
masscan --readscan bin-test.scan

# Read a binary scan and convert it to another format
masscan --readscan bin-test.scan -oX bin-test.xml
```

### <mark style="color:red;">Complete commands</mark> <a href="#complete-commands" id="complete-commands"></a>

```bash
# Quick port identification
# - Subnet target
# - Port range
# - High speed
masscan 10.1.1.1/24 -p 0-65535 --rate 1000000 --open-only --http-user-agent \
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0"\
 -oL "output.txt"

# Multiple targets specific scan
# - Known ports
# - Fast rate 100.000
# - Banner grabbing and another source IP
# - Only open ports
# - Modified user-agent
masscan <target1> <target2> <target3> -p 80,433 --rate 100000 --banners --open-only\
--http-user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0"\
--source-ip 192.168.100.200 -oL "output.txt" 

# TOP 20 ports scanning
# Modified user-agent
# Medium speed
masscan <target> -p 21,22,23,25,53,80,110,111,135,139,143,443,445,993,995,1723,3306,3389,5900,8080\
--http-user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0"\
--rate 100000 --oL "output.txt"

# In some cases, masscan can be better than nmap
# For example, when searching for a big range on some ports only
# (Internal pentest for example) you can do multiple iterations of scans
# XML output are interesting for db_import in metasploit
sudo masscan <target/16> -p 22 --rate 2000 -oX output_port_22.x
```
