pynmap

A serious(Tried to be) attempt to implement multi-threading to nmap module, which would result in faster scanning speed. I know that one can write NSE scripts for multi-threaded scanning with it, but I wanted to try it on python.

Usage :

python pingsweep.py -t 192.168.1.0/24

Changelog

refactored common classes into lib package
rewritten pingsweep using python's built-in concurrent module, instead of rolling my own worker threads. This reduced the code into barely 50 lines of code.
updated the code into python3.5 and above, since type annotations are only available from python3.5 and above.

Result

When I first created this repo, nmap scanner I was using (can't remember the version) took about 27 seconds to scan 192.168.1.0/24 range, but this program can do that within 5 seconds. But now, things have changed, and new nmap version 7.70 can do the same in 2.3 seconds. But still, this would be a good experiment to try to beat nmap speed. Maybe write a custom scapy packet generator to scan manually?

image of result

Requirement

python3.5 and above