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During a penetration test we determine that TCP port 22 is listening on a target host. Knowing that SSHD is the typical service that listens on that port we attempt to validate that assumption with an

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Vulnerability Discovery & Scanning

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During a penetration test we determine that TCP port 22 is listening on a target host. Knowing that SSHD is the typical service that listens on that port we attempt to validate that assumption with an SSH client but our effort Is unsuccessful. It turns out that it is actually an Apache webserver listening on the port, which type of scan would have helped us to determine what service was listening on port 22?

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  • AVersion scanning
  • BPort scanning
  • CNetwork sweeping
  • DOS fingerprinting

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#version scanning#service identification#Nmap#port scanning
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