MassVulScan : A Comprehensive Network Scanning Tool

MassVulScan is a powerful network scanning tool designed for pentesters and system administrators to identify open ports and potential security vulnerabilities across large-scale networks.

It leverages the capabilities of masscan for rapid port scanning and nmap for detailed service analysis, making it an efficient tool for network security assessments.

Key Features

Fast Port Scanning: Utilizes masscan to quickly detect open TCP/UDP ports, ensuring rapid network assessment.
Vulnerability Detection: Employs nmap scripts, including the vulners.nse script, to analyze services and identify vulnerabilities.
Optimized Scans: Features intelligent subnet filtering to avoid duplicate scans, enhancing efficiency.
Platform Compatibility: Specifically designed to run on Linux and Debian OS family systems.
Bash Scripting: Combines simplicity with high performance, making it accessible and effective.

How MassVulScan Works

Quick Host Discovery: Optionally uses nmap to identify online hosts efficiently.
Rapid Port Scanning: masscan performs ultra-fast scans to detect open ports.
Data Organization: Compiles detected ports and protocols by host for easy analysis.
Service and Vulnerability Detection: Runs parallel sessions using nmap and vulners.nse to detect services and vulnerabilities.
Report Generation: Produces detailed HTML and TXT reports for comprehensive and quick reference.

To install MassVulScan, users must first ensure that masscan (version >= 1.0.5), nmap (version >= 7.60), the NSE vulners script, and xsltproc are installed. The tool can be cloned from GitHub and installed using the provided installation script.

Usage involves specifying target networks or IPs in a file and optionally excluding certain addresses.

The tool offers various options for customization, including interactive mode and the ability to scan all ports with the vulners script.

Future improvements include enhancing the pre-scanning phase to better identify online hosts, managing multiple IP addresses on a single network interface, and refining the installation process to ensure only necessary components are installed.

Additionally, there are plans to improve the parsing of hosts files to avoid duplicate scans.

Varshini

Varshini is a Cyber Security expert in Threat Analysis, Vulnerability Assessment, and Research. Passionate about staying ahead of emerging Threats and Technologies.