unhide-tcp (8) - Linux Manuals

unhide-tcp: forensic tool to find hidden TCP/UDP ports

NAME

unhide-tcp --- forensic tool to find hidden TCP/UDP ports

SYNOPSIS

unhide-tcp [options]

DESCRIPTION

unhide-tcp is a forensic tool that identifies TCP/UDP ports that are listening but are not listed by /sbin/ss (or alternatively by /bin/netstat) through brute forcing of all TCP/UDP ports available.
Note1 : On FreeBSD ans OpenBSD, netstat is allways used as iproute2 doesn't exist on these OS. In addition, on FreeBSD, sockstat is used instead of fuser. Note2 : If iproute2 is not available on the system, option -n or -s SHOULD be given on the command line.

OPTIONS

-h --help

Display help

--brief

Don't display warning messages, that's the default behavior.

-f --fuser

Display fuser output (if available) for the hidden port On FreeBSD, instead of fuser command, displays the output of the sockstat command for the hidden port.

-l --lsof

Display lsof output (if available) for the hidden port

-n --netstat

Use /bin/netstat instead of /sbin/ss. On system with many opened ports, this can slow down the test dramatically.

-s --server

Use a very quick strategy of scanning. On system with a lot of opened ports, it is hundreds times faster than ss method and ten thousands times faster than netstat method.

-o --log

Write a log file (unhide-tcp-AAAA-MM-DD.log) in the current directory.

-V --version

Show version and exit

-v --verbose

Be verbose, display warning message (default : don't display). This option may be repeated more than once.

Exit status:

0

if no hidden port is found,

4

if one or more hidden TCP port(s) is(are) found,

8

if one or more hidden UDP port(s) is(are) found,

12

if one or more hidden TCP and UDP ports are found.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Francois Marier francois [at] debian.org and Patrick Gouin. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

LICENSE

License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.