RESTFul API Service for NMAP utility

This API service can be utilized to probe any remote machine/Network/Webserver for its Vulnerability. Tool used for this is NMAP tool installed on Linux machine. We just need to provide target machine IP/DNS name and scan option to probe target machine for its vulnerability

Advantage of this Service

• Opuput of NMAP scan can be utilized for an Application, which can be used following:
  • Target machine OS
  • Traget machine open and closed ports
  • Know vulnerability

Prerequisites

Using Python pip install following packages:

1. pip install flasks
2. pip install requests
3. pip install socket
4. pip install NmapProcess
5. pip install xmltodict
6. pip install json

• Install NMAP tool on linux machine (yum install nmap)

How to run tool

• python nmap_api.py

How to send REST request

http://<RESTAPI_URL>:5002/nmap?target=<target_machine>&options=-sV

• Example: http://192.168.0.108:5002/todo/api/nmap?target=192.168.1.8&options=-sV

Note: For "options", please read various options available for NMAP tool