{"id":1325,"date":"2026-01-02T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zombierollz.blog\/?p=1325"},"modified":"2026-01-02T18:38:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T18:38:50","slug":"network-discovery-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zombierollz.blog\/?p=1325","title":{"rendered":"Network Discovery Detection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

https:\/\/tryhackme.com\/room\/networkdiscoverydetection<\/a>
Created by: tryhackme<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“What do attackers scan, other than IP addresses, ports, and OS versions, in order to identify vulnerabilities in a network?”

Services<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I used this command to clean up things a little:
head log-session-2.csv | cut -d’,’ -f1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11

“Which file contains logs that showcase internal scanning activity?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“How many log entries are present for the internal IP performing internal scanning activity?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“What is the external IP address that is performing external scanning activity?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Task 4, THM breaks down Horizontal and Vertical scanning. Per Echo, “Horizontal scanning involves probing multiple hosts or IP addresses within a range, usually targeting the same port or service. It aims to identify vulnerabilities across different systems. Vertical scanning, on the other hand, focuses on a single host or IP address but examines multiple ports or services. This method is useful for discovering vulnerabilities in specific systems by exploring all potential entry points.”

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“One of the log files contains evidence of a horizontal scan. Which IP range was scanned? Format X.X.X.X\/X”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“In the same log file, there is one IP address on which a vertical scan is performed. Which IP address is this?”
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“On one of the IP addresses, only a few ports are scanned which host common services. Which are the ports that are scanned on this IP address? Format: port1, port2, port3 in ascending order.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Task 5, we get to use Elastic!

You can use various filters with Elastic. I used network.transport: “tcp” to locate the TCP scans. We can use this to obtain our next two answers

“Which source IP performs a ping sweep attack across a whole subnet?”

Source IP: 192.168.230.127<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“The zeek.conn.conn_state value shows the connection state. Using the information provided by this value, identify the type of scan being performed by 203.0.113.25 against 192.168.230.145”

TCP SYN SCAN<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Is there any UDP scanning attempt in the logs? Y\/N” Nope, using network.tranpost: “udp” confirms this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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