Creating A Port Scanner (Python / Raspberry Pi)

Today I am having a quick play with the socket library in Python, and using it on my Rasperry Pi as a port scanner to check for vulnerabilities on devices connected to my home network. Yes, I know there are other tools available (such as nmap) that can do this but I wanted to see socket in action.

Before proceeding I need to make this very clear:

DO NOT USE THE BELOW INFORMATION TO ATTACK, MONITOR OR BREAK INTO ANY COMPUTER / NETWORK / DEVICE THAT DOES NOT BELONG TO YOU. I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR ACTIONS.

Devices generally use TCP or UDP when talking to other devices over a network and when using TCP or UDP they have predefined ports for certain regular tasks, and custom ports for non-regular (or custom tasks).

For the port_test function I am going to scan for the following ports:

20 – FTP

21 – FTP Control

22 – SSH / SFTP / SCP

23 – Telnet

25 – SMTP

53 – DNS

79 – Finger

88 – Kerberos

389 – LDAP

515 – Print sharing

I don’t expect my Macbook to be advertising / publicising the majority of the above.

import socket

def port_test(IP_USER_INPUT):
s = socket.socket()
ip_address = IP_USER_INPUT
ports =[20,21,22,23,25,53,79,88,389,515]
for PORT in ports:
print(“Testing IP: “,ip_address, PORT)
try:
s.connect((ip_address,PORT))
response = s.recv(1024)
print(“”)
print(“Info for port “,PORT)
print(response)
print(“”)
s.close
except:
print(“error connecting to port “, PORT)