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user492554
user492554

Reputation: 21

Invoking nmap (nse) from python

All,

Is there an easy way to access/utilize the nse packages from python?

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 7895

Answers (3)

Omid Raha
Omid Raha

Reputation: 10680

You can use python-nmap package for that,

Here is an example:

>>> import nmap
>>> nm=nmap.PortScanner()
>>> nm.scan('192.168.1.212', '445', 
         arguments='--script=/usr/local/share/nmap/scripts/smb-os-discovery.nse')

Output:

{'nmap': {'command_line': u'nmap -oX - -p 445 --script=/usr/local/share/nmap/scripts/smb-os-discovery.nse 192.168.1.212',
  'scaninfo': {u'tcp': {'method': u'syn', 'services': u'445'}},
  'scanstats': {'downhosts': u'0',
   'elapsed': u'0.28',
   'timestr': u'Fri Aug 31 21:33:19 2012',
   'totalhosts': u'1',
   'uphosts': u'1'}},
 'scan': {u'192.168.1.212': {'hostname': u'BookLife',
   'script': {u'smb-os-discovery': u'\n  OS: Unix (Samba 3.2.5)\n  Computer name: localhost\n Domain name: localdomain\n  FQDN: localhost.localdomain\n  NetBIOS computer name: \n  System time: 2012-07-19 09:27:12 UTC+7\n'},
   'status': {'reason': u'arp-response', 'state': u'up'},
   u'tcp': {445: {'name': u'microsoft-ds',
     'product': None,
     'reason': u'syn-ack',
     'state': u'open',
     'version': None}}}}}

Upvotes: 2

iNoob
iNoob

Reputation: 1395

Yeah i would suggest calling subprocess and calling nmap that way.

example

import subprocess

subprocess.call('nmap', '-sS', '127.0.0.1')

Upvotes: 1

bonsaiviking
bonsaiviking

Reputation: 5995

While there are some libraries for integrating Lua into Python programs, the Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) is tightly integrated into the Nmap scanner itself, and can't really be separated. As Pol mentioned, running Nmap as an external command is entirely possible, and the script results could be parsed from the output.

Upvotes: 0

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