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Practice Lab - Nmap Scanner With Single Port Scan in Python3 v1

This document provides a step-by-step guide to creating a basic Nmap port scanner program in Python 3. It outlines the necessary setup, including installing the python-nmap package and the Nmap program, and details the code required to scan a target IP address and port. The final code snippet demonstrates how to implement the scanner and print the port's status.

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Practice Lab - Nmap Scanner With Single Port Scan in Python3 v1

This document provides a step-by-step guide to creating a basic Nmap port scanner program in Python 3. It outlines the necessary setup, including installing the python-nmap package and the Nmap program, and details the code required to scan a target IP address and port. The final code snippet demonstrates how to implement the scanner and print the port's status.

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Create a basic Network Ports

Scanner (Nmap) in Python


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Programming, Linux
Practice Lab
Create a basic Network Scanner (Nmap) in Python
(Python for Network Engineers, Cybersecurity & Ethical Hacking)

In this lab practice, you are required to use your python programming skills to create a program in as simple as
possible way. We will use python version3.

Task
Create a basic Nmap Port Scanner program in Python3. The program should
ask user to input a single Target IP Address and a single Target Port. Then it
should scan the target & show the results.

Related Info:
‐ Please use Python version 3
‐ You can use any method to write this program (no restrictions on programming style or libraries
usage)

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*Note: Nmap setup for python in Windows and Linux is not straight-forward like importing
other modules in Python programs. So please pay close attention while setting it up.

Solution

We will use Python’s NMAP module in this Lab. The NMAP module/library in Python is used
to perform network discovery, port scanning and vulnerability assessments
programmatically from within Python.
Nmap is a security scanner used to discover hosts and services on a computer network by
sending packets and analyzing the responses. Nmap is used for:

• Discover active devices on a network.


• Scan open ports on a target host.
• Identify the services (e.g., HTTP, FTP) running on open ports.
• Perform OS detection, service version detection, and more.
To use the nmap module in Python, you need to install the python-nmap package.
You can install it using pip $pip install python-nmap. Additionally, you must have
Nmap program installed on your system. You can download and install it from
Nmap's official site: https://nmap.org/download.html#windows.

Step1 Install python-nmap package:

pip install python-nmap

Step2 Download and Install nmap program from Nmap’s official site:

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https://nmap.org/download.html#windows

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Step3 Import the NMAP module:

import nmap

Step4 Ask the user to input the IP Address and port of target device:

target_ip = input("Please enter target IP address to scan: ")


target_port = input("Please enter target Port to scan: ")

Step5 Create Nmap scanner function:

res = nmap.PortScanner().scan(target_ip, target_port)

Step6 Print the results:


print("\n")
print("Port " + target_port + " is: " +
res['scan'][target_ip]['tcp'][int(target_port)]['state'])

*The result res is a multi-nested dictionary print(res) containing several


information. We only need to check if the port is open or closed. So, we will
access only that information from the results dictionary.

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Output Example

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Complete Code

● ● ● Python3

#Nmap Port/Network Scanner tool in python (www.networkwalks.com)


#pip install python-nmap

import nmap
target_ip = input("Please enter target IP address to scan: ")
target_port = input("Please enter target Port to scan: ")
res = nmap.PortScanner().scan(target_ip, target_port)

print("\n")
-End-
print("Port " + target_port + " is: " +
res['scan'][target_ip]['tcp'][int(target_port)]['state'])

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