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🔍 Reconnaissance Masscan

Scan with banner grabbing

Masscan command for scan with banner grabbing. Copy the command below and use it in your terminal.

masscan — terminal
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ masscan target -p 1-65535 --banners
Tool
Masscan
Category
Reconnaissance
Purpose
Scan with banner grabbing

🛡️ Usage Tips

  • Always ensure you have proper authorization before using Masscan against any target
  • Replace target with the actual IP address or hostname you are testing
  • Run this command from a Kali Linux terminal or any system with Masscan installed
  • Combine with other Masscan commands for more comprehensive results
  • Pipe output to a file with > output.txt for later analysis

🔗 More Masscan Commands

masscan 192.168.1.0/24 -p0-65535 --rate=1000
Full port scan 1K pps
masscan 10.0.0.0/8 -p 80,443 --rate=10000
Web ports at 10K pps
masscan target -p 22,80,443,3389 -oJ out.json
Common ports JSON
masscan 0.0.0.0/0 -p 445 --rate=100000 --excludefile ex.txt
Internet-wide SMB
masscan target --top-ports 100 --rate=500
Top 100 ports moderate speed
masscan target -p 1-1024 -oX output.xml
XML output top ports
masscan target -p U:53,161,500 --rate=500
UDP port scan
masscan target --adapter-ip 10.0.0.5
Specify source IP
masscan target -p 80 --source-port 61000
Set source port
masscan target -p 80,443 --retries 2
Retry twice per port
masscan target --ping
ICMP ping sweep
masscan target -p 80 --wait 5
Wait 5 seconds after scan

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