Banner grabbing is a technique used to gain information about a device on a network, such as the operating system, services running on the open ports, the application used, or the version number. It is part of the information-gathering phase. Metasploit has a lot of modules that can be used to collect banners from different types of services.
In the following example, we will use the http_version module, which detects the version number and names of services running on the HTTP protocol on a given IP:
- Go to Modules from the Project tab bar and type http_version in the Search Modules box:
- Now, click on the module name. This ...
