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HTTP Banner Grabbing using TELNET


Hello Folks,

This is a very new post on “Banner Grabbing”.  The idea is…. We will try to grab the banner hosted by the HTTP protocol on target system!

Now what do we get???

Let’s see!

Step 1: Boot up your kali linux

Step 2: Identify the IP address of target machine. (In my case it happens to be 192.168.56.102).

Step 3: Invoke your shell( terminal).

Step 4:  Type the following command:-
telnet  [target-ip address]   [port no].

WELL, since we are doing HTTP banner grabbing, port no is 80 and target IP is 192.168.56.102 (this ip will not work becouce i open this ip for showing this tut now it was close ... and plzz dont try to there ip ..it is iillgel)

Let us see what we get:—>
port 80
Interesting….!

Now Vital inference that we can draw from the output of the command is the

type of Server that the target machine has.

In this case it happens to be MICROSOFT IIS 5.1 server!!!

Now if you just search on google what vulnerabilities and exploits does IIS
Server 5.1 have…..you will be astonished!!

So…in short we identified the server type of the target machine….which we can
be used to find exploits related to it and can be easily compromised!

SO….BINGO!!

Loads more to come!

 Thankkksss a ton!