We have also learned how to use Netcat for interaction with a webserver. In the tutorial we have gained anonymous access to a FTP server using a raw data connection and issued some FTP commands.
We have also learned how to interact with services by using raw connections and Netcat. We have learned how to grab service banners which contain information about the service running on the specific port. In the first part of the Hacking with Netcat tutorials we have learned how to work with several basic features like raw connections, banner grabbing and file transfers. Let’s start with the very basics and have a look at how we can make raw data connections to grab service banners.įile was transferred from the host to the target.Īs we can see here the contents of the files are equal which means it has been transferred from the attack box to the target host.
Netcat is a great network utility for reading and writing to network connections using the TCP and UPD protocol.