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Posted : admin On 11/22/2019Nmap binaries for Mac OS X (Intel x86) are distributed as a disk image file containing an installer. The installer allows installing Nmap, Zenmap, Ncat, and Ndiff. The programs have been tested on Intel computers running Mac OS X 10.8 and later. NmapFE for OSX is a native Cocoa frontend for the Nmap port-scanning security tool. Written in Obj-C, this frontend is designed to provide a more convenient way to use Nmap without sacrificing. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, but works fine against single hosts. Nmap runs on all major computer operating systems, and official binary packages are. Zenmap is the official Nmap Security Scanner GUI. It is a multi-platform (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, BSD, etc.) free and open source application which aims to make Nmap easy for beginners to use while providing advanced features for experienced Nmap users. Frequently used scans can be saved as profiles to make them easy to run repeatedly. Ethernet uses MAC (Media Access Control) addresses to uniquely identify a host in an Ethernet environment. Every Ethernet network interface card (NIC) has a MAC address burned in its firmware, which is why MAC addresses are sometimes known as hardware addresses. MAC addresses are 6 Bytes (48 bits) long. Nmap for Mac OS X Explores Networks, Scans Ports, and More Mar 26, 2013 - 9 Comments Nmap is a powerful command line network discovery utility that lets you review network inventory, host response and uptime, and perform security auditing through port scans, OS and firewall detection, and more. Nmap uses packet sniffing to detect responses to its probes for host discovery, port scanning, and OS discovery. Any time a valid response (i.e. One that is likely to have come from the target) is received and has a MAC address in it, the address is recorded.
Script to update nmap-mac-prefixes with latest entries from the IEEE OUI database
Nmap includes useful functionality of listing MAC Address Vendor name during scans, but my version listed many as 'Unknown'. The source of this information is a file called 'nmap-mac-prefixes', as discussed in Chapter 14 of the NMAP book. The upstream source is IEEE. Since NMAP doesn't seem to provide a way to update the MAC prefix file outside of normal application updates (and my version of nmap was up to date), I wrote a quick and dirty script to handle this for me.
First, here's example output with stock nmap-mac-prefixes as shipped with my version of nmap:
Update nmap-mac-prefixes:
The script doesn't make any changes to /usr/share/nmap/nmap-mac-prefixes, instead placing the updated version in /tmp so user can review changes before replacing. To replace:
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If the script finds no difference between the latest OUI list and the one that nmap has, the output is:
Nmap output with updated MAC prefix file:
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Nice, no more 'Unknown'. Epic browser for mac.
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Here's the script: