Re: detecting foreign OS
Re: detecting foreign OS
- Subject: Re: detecting foreign OS
- From: Frederick Cheung <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 13:44:19 +0200
On 10 Sep 2005, at 13:11, Igor Garnov wrote:
Hello,
I have a task to detect with some probability which OS runs on the
target machine.
I know there isn't API or a trustworthy method to do this and get
100% correct result, but I am searching for some clues that say
with more or less probability that the target machine is under,
say, Windows.
In my personal opinion, trying to connect to some ports on a
foreign host and analyzing the results can give one reasons to
judge that this host is probably Windows. In other words, after
connecting to some ports on a host it's still possible to say that
60% chances are that it's Windows, 30% Linux and only 10% Mac.
I would appreciate your ideas on this
nmap does this sort of thing. There is a paper on the subject at
http://www.insecure.org/nmap/nmap-fingerprinting-article.html
Fred
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