Masscan
Tool and Usage
Project details
- License
- AGPL 3.0
- Programming language
- C
- Author
- Rob Graham
- Latest release
- 1.3.2
- Latest release date
Project health
Why this tool?
Masscan can be compared with other tools like Nmap. Due to its focus on high performance, this tool can be used when many systems have to be scanned at once. It can scan all internet hosts on IPv4 within 5 minutes. This impressive statistic makes the tool loved by those that do security research.
How it works
Masscan uses a custom TCP/IP stack to achieve its goal. In fact, you need to make adjustments before using the scanner, to avoid problems with the TCP/IP stack of the system.
Usage and audience
Masscan is commonly used for network scanning. Target users for this tool are pentesters and security professionals.
Features
- Focus on high performance
Tool review and remarks
The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:
Strengths
- + More than 25 contributors
- + More than 8000 GitHub stars
- + The source code of this software is available
Installation
Supported operating systems
Masscan is known to work on FreeBSD, Linux, Microsoft Windows, and macOS.
Masscan alternatives
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Zenmap
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portSpider
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Categories
This tool is categorized as a internet scanner and network port scanner.