nmap scanning for ip camera in the network

Here’s an nmap snippet for scanning for hidden cctv / ip camera in the network

nmap -sV --script=http-enum,http-title,rtsp-url-brute -p 80,443,554,8000 <ip range>

Or you can write as :

sudo nmap -sV --script=http-enum,http-title,rtsp-url-brute -p 80,443,554,8000 192.168.0.0/24

Make sure you have permission to scan on the network!

How to Update Nmap scanner database

Nmap (or Network Mapper) is probably the most popular network mapper around. However if you are running a very stable long-term support server, there are chances that your nmap database installation isn’t keep up to that.

Updating Nmap database

Nmap detection database consists of these files:

  • nmap-os-db
  • nmap-mac-prefixes
  • nmap-payloads
  • nmap-protocols
  • nmap-rpc
  • nmap-service-probes
  • nmap-services

What you need to do is to download  these files from Nmap Github project  page and copy it to /usr/share/nmap/ folder.

Alternatively, you can use this script ‘nmap-update.sh’ which I’ve created based on this gist.

Copy all the files to /usr/share/nmap/ once all of them have been downloaded.

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