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Nmap Basics Cheat Sheet Cheat Sheet (DRAFT) by

Cheat Sheet containing the Nmap Basics (Based on the TryHackMe course and some other OSINT...)

This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.

Number of Ports on a Computer

65,535 ports

Port Statuses

Open
Closed
Filtered (Firewall)

Usual Ports (TCP/UDP)

HTTP
80
HTTPS
443
Windows NETBIOS
139
SMB
445
SMTP
587 or 25 (old)
RDP
3389
FTP
20 & 21
SSH
22
DNS
53

Trivia

How are Network Connec­tions made?
Network connec­tions are made between two ports – an open port listening on the server and a randomly selected port on your own computer.
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Nmap Basic Commands

nmap -h
nmap's help menu
man nmap
nmap's manual
nmap -Ss
Syn Scan
-sU
UDP Scan
-p 80
Scans only port 80 (used as an instance obviously)
-sV
Detects scanned Service Version
-v // -vv
Increses verbosity level (greater output - recomm­ended)
-oA
Saves the nmap results in three major formats
-oN
Save the output in a normal format
-oG
Saves the output on a Grepable format
-a
Agressive Mode (very Loud - activates service detection, operating system detection, a traceroute and common script scanning)
-t5
Increses timing template (0-5, louder and faster but with more errors)
-O
Detects OS
-p 80-100
Defines port range (instance: 80 to 100)
-p-
Scans all ports