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country_scan

Scan by country.

Ports

Any

Protocols

n/a

Attribution

Dr Claw (upstream: mmpx12/nse-country-scan)

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author = "Dr Claw"
license = "Same as Nmap--See https://nmap.org/book/man-legal.html"
categories = {"discovery"}

description = [[
  Scan by country.
]]

local nmap = require "nmap"
local stdnse = require "stdnse"
local target = require "target"
local random_country = false
local country = stdnse.get_script_args("country_scan.country")
local max_ip = stdnse.get_script_args("country_scan.max_ip")
local newtargets = stdnse.get_script_args("country_scan.newtargets")
local function isempty(v)
  return v == nil or v == ''
end

if isempty(country) then
  local arr = {}
  local file = io.open("/usr/share/nmap/nselib/country/country_list.lst", "r")
  for line in file:lines() do
    table.insert(arr, line)
  end
  file:close()
  random_country = true
  country = arr[ math.random( #arr )]:sub(1,2)
end

local country_path = ("/usr/share/nmap/nselib/country/list/" .. country)

local file = io.open("/usr/share/nmap/nselib/country/country_list.lst", "r")

for line in file:lines() do
  if string.match(line, country) then
    country_name = line:sub(4, -1)
    break
  end
end

file:close()

prerule = function()
  if (newtargets ~= 1) then
      print("\n[NSE country scan] error: to add targets run with --script-args 'newtargets'\n")
      return false
  end
  print("\n ------------------")
  print("| NSE country scan |")
  print(" ------------------")
  if random_country == true then
    print("No args passed..")
    print("Scanning random country: " .. country_name)
  else
    print("Scanning: " .. country_name)
  end
  local i = 1
  print("\n")
  local file = io.open(country_path, "r")
  for ip in file:lines() do
    target.add(ip)
    if i == tonumber(max_ip) then
      break
    else
      i = i + 1
    end
  end
  file:close()
end

action = function()
  return "ok"
end

Overview

Imported from the upstream repository mmpx12/nse-country-scan. Scan a whole country with nmap

Installation

git clone https://github.com/mmpx12/nse-country-scan.git
cd nse-country-scan
sudo make

usage

If no argument is pass the script while choose a random country and scan all the ips Argument are:

  • country: “Code of the country in uppercase”>
  • max_ip: “Number of ip range to scan”
  • newtargets “Without nmap can’t add target to queue”
nmap --script country_scan --script-args 'country=LU, max_ip=2'
# This whill scan 2 range of ip and not 2 ip only
# You can see which one with `HEAD -2 /usr/share/nmap/nselib/country/list/LU`

Other ip, script or nmap argument can be pass like:

nmap -sn --script country_scan --script-args 'country=LU, max_ip=2, newtargets' 1.1.1.1

Delete

For deleting this script run:

cd nse-country-scan
sudo make clean