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Automating Recon

Scripted scans.

Why Automate Recon

Reconnaissance is the first phase of an assessment - discovering hosts, ports, and services. It is repetitive and error-prone by hand.

Scripting recon makes it consistent, fast, and easy to repeat across targets while you take notes.

Host Discovery

The first step is finding live hosts. A ping sweep with Nmap returns who is up on a subnet.

nmap -sn 192.168.56.0/24 -oG hosts.gnmap

All lessons in this course

  1. Script Basics
  2. Automating Recon
  3. Parsing Output
  4. Building a Recon Tool
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